Tag Archives: javascript

Fruitbots, a JS bot challenge

Fruitbots challengeI sometimes like to join bot challenges to improve my programming skills and logic reasoning.

Last week I discovered Fruitbots, a JavaScript bot challenge created by the Scribd staff. Like every good challenge of its type, it features simple rules and a clear bot API, also it can be scripted in 4 languages: Python, Lua, Ruby and JavaScript.

The Fruitbots world is a board with different kind of fruits lying around. The goal is to collect more fruits than the opponent bot, of many types as possible.

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How to implement a custom file manager in TinyMCE 4

The TinyMCE 4 javascript editor supports HTML5 and features a new interface and a complete rewrite of all plugins. TinyMCE is the standard WYSIWYG editor for online CMS and websites: if you have a custom file manager attached to the image button, it’s time to think about updating its loading code. To do this in minutes, you can add a quick hack to the new image plugin. Of course, this tutorial covers a standard approach not related to any File Manager in particular. Your final working code will be strictly related to the File Manager in use.

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