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HTML5 2D game development: Implementing Sprite behaviors
Make your HTML5 2D video game more interesting by implementing the essence of any video game: sprite behaviors.
Functional thinking: Laziness, Part 2
Learn to derive a lazy list using Groovy's closures as building blocks, and then explore some of the performance and conceptual benefits of lazy evaluation, including the ability to initialize fields lazily in some languages.
Characterizing code for refactoring
Learn to characterize untested or poorly tested legacy code properly for unit testing so that you can refactor it safely.
The Java technical podcast series: The cloud files
In this season of the Java technical podcast series, Andrew Glover focuses his discussions on the technologies, companies, and people influencing cloud computing. From CloudBees and Heroku to newcomers like Jelastic and NuoDB, you won't want to miss an interview.
Agile DevOps: Dynamic configuration
Manage configuration data to reduce the duplication and misconfiguration that can lead to deployment errors.
HTML5 2D game development: Sprites
Continue the journey of implementing an HTML5 2D video game by learning how to implement Sprites, one of the most fundamental and important aspects of video games.