Mobile Development with a #devops mindset

Kick-ass presentation which Patrick Debois – the one and only – gave as a lecture to my students Web & Mobile Development. In the presentation he reflects on a recent high profile mobile app Small Town Heroes, the company he works at, launched: This presentation shows how you can improve your mobile development cycle when …

Textures.js – SVG patterns for Data Visualization

Textures are useful for the selective perception of different categories var svg = d3.select(“#example”) .append(“svg”); var t = textures.lines() .thicker(); svg.call(t); svg.append(“circle”) .style(“fill”, t.url()); A multitude of predefined styles is available. It’s also possible to define your own styles. Textures.js →

ES6 ES2015 Arrow Functions and this

Why you’d want to use arrow functions (next to them being shorter to type): Arrow functions will maintain the this value of the enclosing context Yes, this will work just fine: function Wilto() { this.age = 32; setInterval(() => { this.age++; console.log( “I am now ” + this.age + ” years old”); }, 3000 ); …

Space.js – HTML-driven narrative 3D-scrolling

For our messages to communicate across efficiently, we need to create a powerful connection between the user and our medium. Today we are going to explore a new way of presenting stories on the web. And for this I’ve created an open-source and free to use JavaScript library i call space.js. It’s basically parallax technologies …

Mapbox Landsat-live

Today we’re releasing the first edition of Landsat-live, a map that is constantly refreshed with the latest satellite imagery from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite. With every pixel captured within the past 32 days, Landsat-live features the freshest imagery possible around the entire planet. Uses the Landsat 8 data directly now that it’s stored on AWS. …