Lately I’ve seen quite a few websites that have some kind of an indicator to display the current reading position (how much you have “read”, depending on how far you have scrolled down an article). In this article, we’ll focus on a technique that uses a horizontal progress bar as the indicator. But instead of …
Parallax Done Right
Parallax has become, for better or worse, an increasingly popular web trend. Done right, it feels awesome. The problem is, a vast majority of sites using parallax suffer from terrible scroll performance. A good refresher on how to do high performance animations Parallax Done Right → Related: High Performance Animations → 2D transform’s translate() vs …
Akira – Live Action Trailer
The Akira Project is a crowd-sourced, non-profit project meant to create a live action fan trailer of AKIRA, the renowned manga-turned-anime film from the late 1980′s; a stunning example of both mediums as art forms. While Hollywood has been working on a live-action Akira movie for a few years now, we, as fans, wanted to …
PHP and Continuous Integration with Travis CI
Travis CI automatically sets up a CI environment and makes it simple for anyone to test and deploy their app. Their build system supports many different languages, you just have to define which language this project is and Travis CI will take care of the rest Good article by Sitepoint on getting started with Travis …
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Administering ArcGIS for Server
Administering ArcGIS for Server teaches you the mechanics of ArcGIS for Server, equipping you with the skills to not only install and configure Server, but to do it efficiently to achieve effective results. You will also learn how to plan, analyze, design, and finally publish and consume GIS services from various platforms including mobile and …
Reminder: Current Color in CSS
Reminder to self, as I seem to keep forgetting this (even after having blogged about it 3 years ago): you can use currentColor as a color value in CSS. Be it for background-color, border-color, etc. — they all accept currentColor. The value it represents is the current color, so if that one changes so will …
GOTHAM
Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world’s greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon’s story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled …
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Isomer – An isometric graphics library for HTML5 canvas
var Shape = Isomer.Shape; var Point = Isomer.Point; iso.add([ Shape.Prism(Point.ORIGIN, 3, 3, 1), Shape.Pyramid(new Point(0, 0, 1)), Shape.Pyramid(new Point(0, 2, 1)), Shape.Pyramid(new Point(2, 0, 1)), Shape.Pyramid(new Point(2, 2, 1)) ]); Did somebody out there recreate Monument Valley using this yet? Isomer →