BC$ (JS/xHTML/CSS) Web Framework
Collage of JavaScript frameworks. (Photo credit: TripWire) In light of the massive popularity of existing JavaScript frameworks such as Dojo, jQuery and the original one (as far as I’m concerned)...
View ArticleVideo Game XML schema and JSON serialization
The original!!! In HTML5 to boot, wowowowow!!! In honor of the recent uptake in video games designed on the web completely using open web technologies (i.e. HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript2), I decided it...
View ArticleWordReference API – AJAX SDK & Widget
Yesterday I wrote about the Google API shutdown. It seems that I was wrong in that post about Wordreference not having an API, just a few days earlier founder Michael Kellogg announced the...
View ArticleUnboxing the MintChip
Royal Canadian Mint (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Royal Canadian Mint(RCM) has sponsored the MintChip Challenge 2012 in an effort to attract developers to the idea of developing software for the...
View ArticleFOAF and the Facebook Death Star
The Facebook Death Star Since the February confirmation of the Facebook IPO, Facebook has continued to stagnate in user-base yet as an organization it holds no punches as it attempts to grow...
View ArticleHTML5 Audio Player Jukebox
A jukebox icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Here’s a piece of work I did on a freelance basis back in early 2012 for a client who allowed me to retain the full rights to the code as a “library” which I...
View ArticleIFTTT finally releases its own API, sort of, with “Maker channel” triggers
Pwn the internet (Photo credit: Wikipedia) IFTTT finally just released its own API (sort of) when it announced the introduction of its new “Maker” Channel which may very well be the closest we ever get...
View ArticleHTML Tutorial and Web History lesson
Today, something unexpected happened. I had the (somewhat unplanned and impromptu) pleasure of showing the ropes to the “new recruit” at work, a student here for a work term over summer break. Now,...
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