Diogo Böhm

Blog posts

  • Whoa… and we’re back!

    Bah, the last couple of days almost made me die at HabitRPG, mostly because I must complete tasks before midnight (!) and I’ve got used to updating before going to sleep… and that was already late. I had something like 5HP left to avoid losing my beloved belongings, but tonight I made up and the…

  • More on JavaScript classes, function warzone

    Just like Python, JavaScript tends to create things once you mention them and they don’t yet exist. In my opinion, that’s a bit more harmful than useful, because there’s danger in accidentally creating new variables and values when you assumed it would be already holding a known value. Coming from a C/C++/Java background, I would…

  • Classes in JacaScript? There’s a way

    I was messing with my game prototype when something came along: how do I create objects in this thing? Many of the examples I’ve seen were quite weird, with functions creating new instances of things and being used to define objects. But what about real classes? Inheritance? After all, is there a standard in JavaScript? Looks…

  • DVenn: venn diagrams with a cup of coffee

    Long time ago, at one college night class, I was quite amazed that my teacher would have to draw over and over again Venn diagrams to explain logic problems and exercises. That class had a projector that was mainly used to display PPS slides. Since I was already quite proficient at Java and Swing development,…

  • Don’t break the owl

    Well, I’m struggling to create original content for the blog, but I’m doing my best to write every day (okay, not my best, it’s not the plan to kill myself for it… for now :). Seinfeld’s “Don’t break the chain” is a nice perseverance exercise, and here I am, trying not to break it. I’ve…