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Book review: “jQuery: Novice to Ninja”

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

I just finished reading “jQuery: Novice to Ninja” by Earle Castledine & Craig Sharkie, and I have to say – it was as delightful as it was disturbing: without a doubt it is this year’s must-read sleeper hit. The authors excel in propelling the reader on an epic personal journey that immerses them in the [...]

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jQuery meeting – the man behind the dollar sign

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Right-o Sydney jQuery cats: here it is! One night only! Saturday afternoon/evening drinks with the one-and-only… John Resig! He’s probably tired from his many flights and Web Stock obligations, so here is our chance to trick him into staying in Australia for good. I’m in the process of setting up a meetup on the jQuery [...]

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DIY Old-school racing game: Part 1

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Remember Pole Position? Outrun? PowerDrift? Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge? Yeah you do! Remember jQuery 1.4? Most likely! Let’s combine those two memories into one DIY project and make our very own old-school racing game with jQuery 1.4, shall we?
To prove it could work, here’s an early proof-of-concept to hopefully pique your interest. It’ll take us [...]

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iPadmé. Geddit?

Friday, January 29, 2010

C’mon… it’s only the second star wars joke I’ve made in 5 years.

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Sine Scrollbars

Monday, January 18, 2010

Here’s a lil’ Scrollbar Experiment. It’s pretty.

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jQuery 1.4 iPhone reference app

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Welcome to the year twenty hundred and ten! As a very early christmas present, the jQuery team have announced they’ll be dropping the 1.4 release on us in the next couple of days. They’ve also unveiled a new documentation effort.
To help you get your head around the reams of new information, I’ve created a [...]

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.index() becomes cool in jQuery 1.4

Saturday, December 5, 2009

With jQuery 1.4 just around the corner, it’s time to start looking at what’s new. One nice change is the updated functionality of the index method. Previously, well, it was a pain in the bum to get the index of an element in a selection – and required a pretty convoluted syntax. Now it’s super [...]

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Parcycle: A Particle System with HTML5 canvas

Thursday, December 3, 2009

All this PPK “iPhone developers are stupid” awesomeness got me thinking. Now, if there’s one guy I’ve got respect for, it’s PPK. And if he tells me to ditch objective-c for JavaScript, then I’m damn well going to do it. Accordingly, I decide to create “Parcycle“: a Particle Emitter system that I re-wrote from a [...]

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JavaScript iPhone Games: Part II

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Interesting JavaScript times abound! Recently the Pie Guy JavaScript iPhone game has provided a sneak-peek at what we can do with the awesome one-two punch of ECMAScript and the iPhone. Accordingly, I went back and applied some pie-guy tricks to my platformer…

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