Tag Archives: javascript

I 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. It can also 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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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, and its file upload and file select tools.

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