In a post I wrote yesterday today, I briefly spoke about namespace changes I was making in Tile5 to save precious characters, and then also some modifications I wanted to make after remembering how much I love jQuery. The implementation of chainable parameter modifiers was a little more hairy than I thought, but I got to something pretty useful in the end.
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posted on the September 4th, 2010 1 Comment »
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 1 Comment »
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 »
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 »
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 »
A visit to Ajaxian revealed that two interesting javascript libraries have hit various stages of pre-production release statuses:
scripty2 alpha
Scripty2 is the next incarnation of the ever popular script.aculo.us javascript library. Some pretty nifty demos show off the capabilities of the library, so one to watch.
YUI 3.0.0 Beta 1
jQuery will probably remain my favourite javascript library, YUI is definitely worthy of anyone’s attention.
So, get out there download some new kit and get mashing.
posted on the June 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Guillermo Rauch of devthought has very recently released a new version of his excellent textboxlist control, and this time he has built a version for jQuery in addition to mootools. This is definitely worth a look.
If you are looking to build an application that uses tagging, then this control will make your application feel very slick indeed. So without further delay, head over to his project and demo pages. I encountered a few issues with IE7 (which I’m sure will be resolved very soon) but it worked fantastically in Firefox.
posted on the April 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Well John Resig has demonstrated his thought leadership in the javascript development space again. Confronted with the problem of ensuring his jQuery library maintains compatibility with all the combinations of browsers, HTML compliance modes, other js libraries, etc, etc. he has come up with an innovative solution: TestSwarm.
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posted on the March 21st, 2009 No Comments »
