SaladinAkara – OneLoneCoder Community

Programming and The Art of War

21st August 202021st August 2020

A few days ago on the Discord, there was a question asked about whether you could teach programming through the medium of ‘philosophical text’. An example was how Sun Tzu’s classic, The Art of War, is used to teach business practices.

This got me thinking… Can The Art of War be applied to programming and software development in general… Turns out that, with a little bit of twisting and wild interpretation, that it can! I shared a few on the Discord server, but thought I’d give the idea a more permanent presence here on the blog.

Announcing The Inaugural OLC Relay Race 2020

13th June 202024th November 2020

On 20th June 2020, the One Lone Coder community will host its first ever coding relay race.

Edit [14th June 2020]: There have been some minor changes to the way in which teams will be set up.

Helping others to help you, or how to ask a useful programming question

30th April 20202nd May 2020

It can be difficult to ask for help in the best way – especially if you aren’t sure what the problem is. In this post, I hope to give some basic pointers that will help others to help you quickly and efficiently so you can go back to coding from scratching your head.

New PixelGameEngine Extension for Animating 2D Sprites

18th January 202018th January 2020

One of the things I struggled with when using the PixelGameEngine was using animated sprites. It wasn’t immediately obvious how to get it to work, so over the Christmas break I decided to make a concerted effort to figure it all out.

The end result was a brand new extension for Javidx9’s PixelGameEngine. So, I would like to present the olcPGEX_AnimatedSprite with a small tutorial on how to use it.

Dev Log: Laravel Blogging Platform – Starting Out

2nd December 20192nd December 2019

Laravel is a great framework that makes web development quick, easy and elegant. I’ve been using it for approximately a year at work and absolutely love it! There are plenty of extremely well-made packages to help extend its functionality from better handling of form request data, to implementations of multi-factor authentication.

But I’ve yet to find a package that adds a blog facility to a website. I’m not a fan of pre-packaged blog/CMS platforms such as WordPress and Drupal, so always prefer to roll my own solution. So, why not use my new-found knowledge and appreciation of Laravel to give something back that I’m passionate about?