So today, being stuck in the house, I decide I should streamline some of my things in the unix world. So I picked up some BASH scripting. I got some serious flashbacks to the 90’s. I would have flashed back earlier, but I’m not old enough. It really makes you appreciate the UNIX geeks of…
Read More Weekend^H^H^Hday HackA few days ago, I learned about a map visualization libary called Polymaps from FlowingData (Design advanced online and interactive maps with Polymaps). This weekend, I resolved to play with it and come up with something useful. The Texas Tribune has a neat Flash based map of county-by-county election turnouts. My goal for this weekend……
Read More Weekend HackWhat’s this? Another release already? Well yes. I’ve been working on this project, and we use Codebase for project management. And the whole time, I kept thinking, “Why can’t I sort these tickets?!”. Apparently, I’m not the only one, because I overheard some other people say the same thing so I decided to make a…
Read More CodebaseHQ Tickets+ for FireFoxThis one comes with a live demo! One of the biggest problems with my last Canvas experiment is that if you put text labels over points of interest, they quickly clutter up and become difficult to read. In this demo, I take a list of labels and the coordinates they belong, then I treat each…
Read More Next adventure in HTML CanvasI rewrote some JavaScript of mine to use <canvas> instead of a <pre> block to display some data from a database scraped from a webpage. So far, it’s looking a lot nicer: I can do all sorts of other cool visualizations of the data too. Some things I learned that weren’t in the Mozilla documentation:…
Read More Teaching Myself the HTML Canvas ElementI completely forgot about this mIRC script I made back in 2000, but apparently I was ahead of my time. I wrote a crowdsourcing script before there was crowdsourcing. The script was very simple, query it with !hme <name of show> and the script replies with how many episodes it thinks are in the show.…
Read More Blast from the Past [2000] my !hme scriptI typically just use uneval() to figure out what’s inside an array/object, but what about when it’s large and heterogeneous? I wanted to find a version of php’s print_r() for JavaScript. Here is link to the Original Version of dump() I based mine off of: www.openjs.com/scripts/others/dump_function_php_print_r.php When I tried it, the first thing I noticed…
Read More print_r() for javascriptHaving gone through these three frameworks, I’m going to say something I wish other review sites said: For each purpose, there is a “best” framework. It all depends on context. The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) If you’re building a rich web application from scratch, YUI will have very thorough tools to do anything you…
Read More nano review of JavaScript frameworks (YUI, jQuery, moo)