Have you thought about learning AngularJS, but find all the examples just too basic? I did too! I spent an entire week (full-time) during my vacation to break open AngularJS and see what’s possible. What I came up with as a demo is a quiz where you can type in questions and answers, then play the questions one at a… read more
Top 5 Shortcuts That Will Boost Your Coding Productivity Are you new to the sublime text editor? It’s really more powerful than it looks. While it’s easy navigation with mouse and keyboard all the powerful tools are quickly accessible with a few shortcuts. VIM users will likely stick to VIM after the steep learning curve of the abundance of keyboard… read more
While doing research in game development using HTML5, ImpactJS is a framework that is mentioned as being the best to date for making HTML5 games. The great thing is that you can port over HTML5 to mobile platforms using AppMobi, PhoneGap, or Ejecta. You will also learn Node.js and Socket.io in the tutorials. Here is an extended tutorial for beginners:… read more
With the recent updates of browsers supporting web more W3C standards, it is easier to embed HTML5 videos than before, although you still have to provide your video in multiple codecs such as webm, ogg, and mp4. The thing is you still have to use javascript to control the video’s functionality. So here’s the simplest way to make your HTML5… read more
Description This is a plugin for jQuery I developed, which renders a colored optical flare to slide across elements such as boxes, images, and containers. The flare is white in the center and has a customizable colored glow. The plugin also allows change of speed, glow radius, and event triggering the animation. The animation is performed by sliding across an… read more
This book is a good read for understanding javascript coding syntax, prototyping, scope, and closure. Although brief and repetitive after Chapter 8, it clarifies several aspects of the language. If you’re an intermediate to advance javascript developer, this book many not be useful to you. The most important thing is javascript’s flexibility. You only use primitives and objects; javascript… read more
This book is as described and more. It focuses on a variety of aspects regarding front-end web development at the enterprise level. This includes team hierarchy, individual roles, tools, documentation, frameworks and methodologies so it goes beyond coding but it’s equally technical in nature. This is definitely not a beginner’s book because of the technical details so it’s possible to… read more
There are several big name services for split testing website and they are all services which you have to pay a monthly fee. Would you want a script you could install on your websites that can give you metrics just for 2 pages? This script I designed work using javascript and php. You can have two versions of an index.php… read more
This was about the biggest hackathon in the east coast or possibly in the entire nation with a record amount of attendees in the hundreds. Only 160 teams presented with teams ranging from 1-4 people. For me it was my first one and I was a bit skeptical at first. Prior to this I’ve heard of companies holding hackathons and… read more
If you’re curious about the difference of MySQL engines, here they are. Comparing and contrasting what MyISAM is and InnoDB. First ISAM is the acronym for Indexed Sequential Access Method, generally it is fast, compressable, and allows full text searching. Second InnoDB is transaction safe and includes automatic foreign key checking so it’s a bit slower. The important part is… read more