In honor of the Olympics, the Google Doodle lets you jump hurdles today. If you have a game controller, you can also use that to play the game. Under the hood one will find the brand spanking new GamePad API making this possible. Jumping the Hurdles with the Gamepad API →
Tag Archives: javascript
shp.js — JavaScript Shapefile Parser
jsconsole.com – JavaScript Command Line Tool and Remote Debugger
jsconsole.com is a simple JavaScript command line tool. However, it also provides the ability to bridge across to other browser windows to remotely control and debug that window – be it in another browser or another device altogether. Remote debugging is really simple: Invoke a :listen command at jsconsole.com to get a listener id returned …
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jQuery Knob
sigma.js — Web network visualization made easy
on{X} – Automate your life
on{X} lets you control and extend the capabilities of your Android phone using a JavaScript API to remotely program it. Kinda like ifttt but then based on actions that happen on your mobile: an SMS being received, a location being entered/left, a change in mode of transport (from car to walking), etc. A recipe like …
jQuery++
jQuery++ is a collection of extremely useful DOM helpers and special events for jQuery. jQuery++ is all about providing low-level utilities for things that jQuery doesn’t support. If Underscore is jQuery’s functional-programming tie, jQuery++ is jQuery’s bald-spot covering toupee. Some handy additions, yet I’m wondering why they provide an override of $.fn.animate() instead of pushing …
Grand Theft Auto Classic WebGL
Before you get too overly excited by the title, no this isn’t a full recreation of the 1997 DMA classic. Instead it’s a WebGL tech demo put together by Niklas von Hertzen as an experiment, to test out the creation and performance of large static environments. It works by loading in the original GTA map …
“JavaScript Developer”
It is impossible to hire real JavaScript developers as 90% of applicants come in and only know jQuery. They have no clue what an event handler is, how to navigate the DOM or create a simple XHR call without the library. — Christian Heilmann And that’s exactly why I do teach my students the bare …