Friday 03 September 2010
Over the last few days I’ve just been reviewing the code for Tile5 (the javascript library previously known as Slick – but that reminded me too much of Rimmer referring to himself as Ace). With minimal persuasion I’ve decided that doing simple things requires too many damn dots.
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posted on the September 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Tuesday 31 August 2010
As much as I usually like to write on my blog about things I’ve worked out, or commentary on things I think are interesting, this time I’m posting something quite different. In short – I’m pretty stuck, and I’m starting to run myself in circles trying to work this out. I’m fairly certain there is going to be Euclidean math involved, but so far I haven’t made the progress I would normally like to. Read the rest of this entry »
posted on the August 31st, 2010 2 Comments »
Tuesday 31 August 2010
When I began work on Tile5 (renamed from Slick – just seemed to arrogant a name) a few months ago, I was absolutely certain the the HTML5 Canvas was the “way of the future”. For a long while there had been opportunities for SVG to make an impact in the browser space but it had failed to do so, which led me to believe that the mainstream would bypass SVG related technology and gradually move to HTML5 canvas implementations. But now I am wondering if I was wrong.
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posted on the August 31st, 2010 2 Comments »
Saturday 14 August 2010
Today I noticed a tweet from John Resig about the launch of the jQuery Mobile site. Anyone who has been keeping up with what John has been doing over the last little while has known this is coming, but it is great to see it starting to come together.
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posted on the August 14th, 2010 No Comments »
Friday 06 August 2010
It was almost a year ago now that I wrote a post comparing a few options in the area of cross platform mobile development. Over that year, a few new players have arrived on the scene (Sencha Touch comes to mind) but by in large nothing earth shattering has happened in the tools space.
In that same time for me, however, I have ventured deeper into cross-platform development world and probably have a slightly different perspective on things than I had back then.
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posted on the August 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Monday 05 July 2010
Late last week I refactored the draw code in Slick JS (http://github.com/sidelab/slick) again. I’ve been pretty frustrated that I didn’t get the drawing logic right first time, but I think I’ve come to terms with it. Here are the major changes.
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posted on the July 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Thursday 24 June 2010
I’ve been particularly quiet on the blog and twitter of late, primarily given I have been working very hard pulling on two javascript libraries (well it was one, but I’m separating them – you know they were causing trouble). While I won’t go into a lot of detail here, as there is still a lot more work to do, I will try and give a brief introduction to both and why on earth I’m writing yet another javascript library.
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posted on the June 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Through the wonder’s of twitter I found out about the Random Hacks of Kindness event that is going down in Sydney in about a week and a half’s time (Saturday June 5 – Sunday June 6). Personally, I think this is one of the better hackathon’s I have seen organised as it’s not only about talented devs getting together, but also about building apps that can potentially make the world a better place. Something I’m sure we’d all like to get involved with.
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posted on the May 26th, 2010 2 Comments »
Monday 24 May 2010
As I get back into “coding for money” again after a couple of years of being paid to manage people, projects, technology, etc. I am once again diving into different languages to look at what are going to be the truly productive and innovative languages over the next few years. As I do this, I reflect on some of the syntax and library clutter in my mind from having coded in a number of languages over the years, and wonder which of those I’d be most happy to forget (Johnny Mnemonic style) to make room for the new ones…
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posted on the May 24th, 2010 12 Comments »
Thursday 20 May 2010
While many would argue that Google’s recent issue with accidentally collecting wifi packet data from public broadcasting networks will have minimal impact to developers, I disagree.
Having just left a corporate environment in which I would occasionally get to chat with the CIO regarding the pros and cons of some current technology trends, such as cloud computing, which would also include discussions around the enterprise suitability of those solutions, I can tell you – accidents like this are going to have an impact.
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posted on the May 20th, 2010 No Comments »
