Scotsman are the better Vikings

Recently I watched two movies that ended up being about Viking funerals. So I think it's fair to compare them.

What We Did on Our Holiday

A movie about the tensions that can arise within families. Gordie is suffering terminal cancer and so one of his sons throws him a party. The sons brother and his family are traveling to Scotland for the occasion. Not only is the later only inches short of a divorce which he doesn't want his dead to find out about, the brothers also genuinely disagree on just about everything. All that glues the family together is Gordie and the way he treats the kids. Who taken on a journey to the see grant him his dying wish off a Viking funeral.

RIOT collectibles

I totally bought into the U.R.F. promotion of RIOTs collectibles. So by buying a sweet little Mantee I got another figure for free, jay me.

Having ogled with the little figures for a while now my biggest problem was really that I couldn't decide which one I would want to get. Luckily URF helped me with that because the Mantee is super awesome. And supposedly you won't be able to get it after this U.R.F. which I don't believe just yet. They used to say the same thing about my snow bunny Nidalee skin. Yeah I love collecting stuff, used to collect stamps way back and I really do want to get a cabinet to show of my collectibles and special editions of stuff.

Extending Brackets

For some time now Brackets has been my Editor of choice for web projects.

For those of you who don't know it. It is a HTML5 based editor. Using it you develop with the web, for the web. Alongside many great features like quick edit for styles and just generally being awesome to code HTML, CSS and JavaScript the thing that makes me really love it is it's live preview that can show you in real time how your changes to your code will look. With the new 0.42 Version Brackets now supports Designs, or Themes if you want to call them that. Due to that I revisited my Plugins and thought I would share what I am using.

Object-oriented JavaScript

Attention: This is kinda "old" and I personally now consider this to bad style so I won't make the effort to reformat this after moving from Wordpress to Hexo.

This Tutorial strives to enable you to build object oriented applications in JavaScript. Another goal of mine is to give you a deeper understanding of the language and principles at work. If you just want som code to copy-past and understand it while you got refer to section 7.

Dodge-JS

One thing I had to learn is called require.js, there will be a blog post about it soonish. To get that down I wrote a little game. I call it Dodge-JS. You are a little block and have to dodge falling blocks. Some kids really liked it so I also implemented a leader board. Give it a try. I am warning you though, you may get addicted.

Introducing MusicHub

MusicHub is a website I have been working on lately.

I started it after joining DiscussionHub, a friendly general discussion forum. I wanted to make something for all members and so I came up with the concept for MusicHub. The idea is to have an easy to use and minimalistic music player on the web. A website you can visit and listen to some good music.

How to work without jQuery

Content:

1. The History of jQuery

2. What you can do without jQuery

   1. $ - Querying for elements
   2. .each - Work with elements from a list
   3. Manipulating elements

3. The big difference

4. Ease of use

5. The bottom line

Many Webdesigners and developers today use jQuery for their website and web apps. The fact is: you probably don't need it. To understand what you can do faster and better without jQuery let us first take a look at what jQuery is. Once we have an understanding of jQuery I will go on to teach you how to replace many commonly used functions of jQuery with faster ones.

The thing about language

One important topic for myself is language.

You will soon notice that my blog will be mostly English and sometime German. At least that is what I think will happen.

But how come?

Well a lot of times I think in English. Sometime because I am reading in English and think about it, sometimes because it helps to see a bigger picture if you think in "not your native language" and sometime just because I feel like it. Adding unto that some content of this blog will be a different version of something I release on English speaking forums or generally tutorials about tech related things. For these topics I find English to be more appropriate, as it finds a bigger audience and other related documents are usually English.

Starting

Hi there,

I am HoverBaum, well that is what I call myself on the web. In real life I am Hendrik, nice to meet you!

This site is me ranting on about everything and anything I find interesting.

Watch out for potentially cool stuff to come.