Development/Engineering Team Articles

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This is just a little doodle for me to get a feel for how the HTML5 canvas element can be used. The canvas is a pixel-based sort of thing, and so maybe not well suited to applications that want scalable elements or independent moving parts; there SVG might be a better choice. But for uses where you want to fiddle with a lot of pixels, where it'd be undesirable to make a new object for every point you manipulate, canvas fits the bill. Read more »

by Kevin Turner, Portland Decipher Dev

A look at Knockout from knockoutjs.com.

The Magic of Knockout

“[...] you can write arbitrary JavaScript in your bindings, and KO is still able to detect what observables your bindings depend on. That’s how it knows what parts of the UI to update when your model changes. It doesn’t re-render the entire UI all the time - just the parts whose dependencies have changed.” Read more »

There’s been something bugging me about how to do widgets in javascript.  I haven’t been able to articulate it very well, so I’m going to ramble for a while and maybe I can pull something coherent out of it by the end. Read more »

Article by Steve Irby

Earlier this year, Decipher put in place a new policy for the development team – 10% time. We now get to spend 10% of our time working on fun pet projects. The project needs to be approved by our managers and obviously has to be work related…(apparently creating an android game isn't work related?). Read more »