/** * @param int $a * @return float[] */ function foo ($a) { echo “You passed in the integer $a”; return [$a * 1.0, $a * 2.718]; } Augmented Types simply provides a way of enforcing argument and return types on function calls in PHP. It parses a given function’s type information from phpDoc-style type …
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Grunt vs Gulp – Beyond the Numbers
Speed comparison between Grunt and the aforementioned Gulp All Gulp plugins are just duplex streams that read in data and output data. Everything can be processed in memory, with the output of one stream piped as input to another. Much like Unix pipes. This gives Gulp a huge speed advantage over Grunt, because I/O is …
How In-app Purchases Have Destroyed The Industry
The modern-day Dungeon Keeper is not even a game. It’s just a socially engineered scam. And since people don’t remember what real gaming was like in the 90s, they are giving it the highest rating in the app store. Just compare the video above to the original, reviewed by the same author. It’s a worrying …
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Introducing Paper
Paper takes the standard Facebook News Feed and recreates it as an immersive, horizontally scrolling set of screens. It also provides a new way to post to Facebook (and Paper) with an elegant WYSIWYG editor that borrows the styling of Medium’s and Svbltle’s blogging systems. Finally, yes, it’s a news-reading app that owes some of …
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OK Glass, play a game
We think that Glass could be an interesting new platform for gaming. A few of us recently hacked together five simple games that experiment with the unique features of Glass and demonstrate some of the possibilities for gaming. Not quite sure how many other types of games one could create with this … Google Glass …
Last.fm and Spotify partnering up
We’ve teamed up with Spotify to bring their entire catalogue, on demand, to the world’s leading music recommendation service. Whether it be your own profile page, artist pages or album pages – if Spotify has it, you can play it and control it on Last.fm via the Spotify playbar at the bottom of the screen. …