Another Article on Parsing

Last night I finished off another article for the voyagingmind.com. I have another one in the pipeline that will complete my mini series on parsing. Once this is done the pace should drop as the pipeline will be empty.

In my mind I want to write two types of articles for the site. Long form what I have been up to style articles. So over a period of a month I can collate together the interesting bits of a project I am working and write about the problems that needed to be overcome. I want to focus more on the take away lessons rather than the finite detail.

Tutorial style articles. Here I want to avoid writing an article about how such and such technology works, so I won't be writing an introduction to the web audio API, rather I would want to write something the will still be interesting in 10 years time. Of course it is about programming so will require code and I imagine any language I use will look quite different in 10 years, still I want the article to be interesting to readers at least for the idea presented.

I am planing on learning Phaser when I decide it is time to head back into doing some game dev but I will not be writing articles about how it works. I may discuss how some of it briefly in the update articles. I will probably blog about it here.

This was all brought home to me when I realized I was in the process of writing a series of articles about an idea from the 1970s and finding it interesting. Will how to generate a sound via web audio be interesting in 10 let alone 30 years time?

This is my currently line of thinking.

Oh I am currently on a bit of a break from developing games. I sort of lost the mojo there for a while. I decided I would return when version 1 of Phaser is released. It will be in the next few weeks. Until then I decided to create a new website, write some articles for it and perhaps develop an app. Basically do some different stuff for a while and let my brain roam around a bit and recharge by learning new things.