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DIY Old-school racing game: Part 1

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 [...]

iPadmé. Geddit?

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

Sine Scrollbars

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

jQuery 1.4 iPhone reference app

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 [...]

.index() becomes cool in jQuery 1.4

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 [...]

Parcycle: A Particle System with HTML5 canvas

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 [...]

JavaScript iPhone Games: Part II

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…

PPK vs Degrassi Junior High

Shocking discovery uncovered by Henry.

Nifty jQuery trick: setting attributes

I’ve been knee deep in the jQuery source code recently. It’s all gooey, but you do get to see some snazzy things. Today’s nifty jQuery trick is about programmatically setting attribute values via a function. To follow along at home you’ll need some scissors, a length of string, and some double sided tape…