Mendelt Siebenga

Here’s just a short update on the Tetris project (if you can call it a project). I had a pretty busy week but I did find some time to play around some more with JavaScript, try out some GOF creational patterns, and build a nice domain model to make working with squares and blocks a bit easier.

Here’s a little update on the JavaScript front. I’ve been busy working on Tetris this weekend. Lots of new stuff to learn and lots to do. First of all I got a list of issues from Sebastiaan Janssen that needed fixing (thanks, that was exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping for). I’ve been playing around with unit testing JavaScript with QUnit . Of course my existing code wasn’t really testable so I had to refactor things a bit too. And I tried to test-drive a couple of small stories.

To prepare for the Devnology meeting next month I have to write a version of Tetris in a language of my choosing. I had already fired up Visual Studio to build a kick-ass C# XNA version with explosions and 3D visuals when I realized it would be much more fun and educational to pick a language I’m less familiar with. I’m pretty sure there will be Ruby, Python, Java and Haskell implementations by some people who are pretty good at programming in those languages so I decided not to pick any of those obvious languages. But I’d still like to invest my time learning something I’m actually going to use, so Cobol wasn't an option. I picked JavaScript.