Getting Ionic framework up and running on Ubuntu 14.04

Ionic is a framework for hybrid or progressive mobile app development. Throw in electron and you can get a desktop app too! Note that this will only deal with android app development, there are likely many more steps involved with iOS. We need the following software setup – NodeJS – ionic is build using node.… Continue reading Getting Ionic framework up and running on Ubuntu 14.04

Mucking About with Voxel.js

Installing Voxel.js I just discovered voxel.js, which is a web-based voxel engine that can be used to build block-based games like Minecraft. It’s written in node.js, so lets get that set up. Voxel.js requires node.js 0.8.0 or better, and Ubuntu’s repositories supply 0.6.19, so we need to set up a PPA to get the latest version. sudo… Continue reading Mucking About with Voxel.js