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 Devnologymeeting 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.