So I’ve been playing this game called BattleForge, and there are a handful of websites that exist just to display information about these cards you can collect in the game (think Magic: The Gathering or Pokemon). People have also made Adobe AIR applications and Microsoft Access databases. So, naturally I thought I would pollute the…
Read More Announcing allbfcards.comI finally got around to updating my canvas / sql visualization code. Interacting with the map is now much easier. And I’ve posted a live demo of it here: http://crccheck.com/demo02 It’s not as refined as google maps, but it’s still pretty fancy. Navigation is done in the minimap, and you can draw on the large…
Read More A new canvas demoThis 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 am addicted to making Greasemonkey scripts. I started making scripts to help me in an online game I play, but now I make them for many other sites. For my clients, I have made Greasemonkey scripts that can: scraping data for import into spreadsheets/databases adding AJAX to a site that didn’t support it before…
Read More Greasemonkey ScriptsFor a year, I was REALLY into making widgets. I’d would still be making them if they ever fixed the bugs I reported and got the performance of the widget engine better. My self-hosted homepage for my widgets was here, while my approved widgets are hosted on the official site. There is one secret widget…
Read More My Time with Yahoo! WidgetsHaving 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)