animation Animate chess pieces with ember-animated I've used ember-animated [https://github.com/ember-animation/ember-animated/] in the Sac Sac Mate app in several places: to animate the list being resorted [https://devjournal.balinterdi.com/using-ember-animated-to-resort-a-list/] and to move the player's
ember.js Adding autoplay to games The main feature I added this week to Sac Sac Mate is the ability to autoplay a game, so that the user doesn't have to click (or tap) the "make next move" potentially
ember.js Setting link activeness – the modern way I realize a blog post with "modern" in its title regarding a JavaScript framework will be laughed at a few years down the line, but it makes for a catchy title. "Setting link
sac-sac-mate Implementing conditional linking In the previous post [https://devjournal.balinterdi.com/thinking-about-conditional-linking/], I outlined what I need and a possible solution to make it work. Here, I'm going to briefly write about how I implemented it
api Thinking about conditional linking In certain apps, there's a need to show data from related resources that might or might not exist. One example that comes to mind is a wiki where an article can link to
emberjs Rendering the chess board – declaratively. Part 1. Having decided that I want to include the ability of stepping through chess games in the MVP [https://devjournal.balinterdi.com/extending-the-original-mvp/], I set to implementing that feature. My first thought was to
sac-sac-mate Extending the original MVP (aka. moving the goal posts) At this point, I realized I've completed the pieces needed for my original, self-inflicted MVP [https://devjournal.balinterdi.com/coming-up-with-an-mvp] . However, I reckon that MVP wasn't ambitious enough. At the risk of moving
sac-sac-mate Adding fly-over animation from list to details After I made list resorting animate [https://devjournal.balinterdi.com/using-ember-animated-to-resort-a-list/] I got excited about how much ember-animated can do with how little code. I was hooked and signed up to EmberMap's animation
ui Using ember-animated to re-sort a list Animations can spice up user interaction but their best use is to help the user understand what's going on on the page, as a result of their action. I wanted to use animations
d3 Coming closer to understanding D3's data joins This is one of those posts where I'll describe the challenge I've faced and how I overcame it, so that you, dear reader, can hopefully learn how not to get bogged down with
emberjs New project: Sac Sac Mate There are always several things in the broadly interpreted world of software development I want to learn about. What usually works for me is instead of (or rather, in addition to) reading articles and books or watching videos about the topic, I build something with those tools.
