I recently wanted to give CoffeeScript a try, so I decided to implement Conway’s Game of Life in CoffeeScript using an HTML5 canvas element for rendering. It was remarkably simple and CoffeeScript seems to be a big improvement over vanilla JavaScript in terms of terseness of syntax. It’s easy to learn an cuts down on a lot of brackets etc. The demo and source code are hosted on GitHub here.
I’ve been using Vim for about four years, but I’ve recently started making the effort to use some of the more advanced features outside of the core set that I usually use. Surprisingly there’s even some basic navigation commands that I never really learned that greatly improve editing efficiency, so I’ve been using a couple of cheat sheets that come highly recommended. Here they are:
http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html
A few weeks have gone since my last roundup, I have moved house and started working at a new job so haven’t had much time. That said, here’s a list of articles that I’ve found interesting over the past week. I’ve been getting into the ‘devops’ world recently (or at least using some of the domain tools and learning about scalable infrastructures), so many of the links are related.