Before the advent of HTML5, games were developed using Adobe Flash. The two major problems with Flash were that (1) the Flash format was proprietary and (2) not all browsers, most notably iOS, supported Flash. Among other advances, HTML5 introduced the canvas element, which allowed arbitrary drawing of shapes and bitmap images. These formed the basis for the development of games using HTML5. For one of our clients, we have integrated an off-the-shelf, third-party lottery game. The game is configurable, allowing it to be used for multiple clients…
Read moreREVIEW: Load testing tools
We were recently asked by a client to recommend a load testing tool for a web-based application that Finite Wisdom had developed for them. We narrowed our search among the many alternatives by using a specific set of criteria. This served to narrow our search down to three alternatives: LoadView, LoadNinja, and Loader. Let’s look at each of those three more closely.
Read moreIdentifize
Identifize is an extension for Visual Studio Code, built with Node.js and published by Finite Wisdom, that makes it easy to format identifiers by replacing non-alphanumeric characters in the selection(s) with either hyphens or underscores, and forcing the entire string to either lowercase or uppercase.
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