January 12, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Vanilla JavaScript – Stepping into the language

When you see “vanilla JavaScript” it’s titled for not having any added “flavors” of JavaScript.  Not to be confused with the Vanilla-JS framework.  In other words it’s the unadulterated original language.  On my blog post about JavaScript being easy with jQuery I received a few comments about JavaScript being easy anyway.  jQuery is designed so…

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August 4, 2014 by Daniel P. Clark

Create a Game Instance in Rails

So you need to load a class instance in Rails for your visitors to play your game. But Rails generally is a static website with static database lookups. So for this we’re going to assign a class instance to a game room. First let’s generate our project; we’re going to start with a prebuilt devise/bootstrap…

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