Gone Hybrid

A website that I’ve found to be very helpful whilst diving into creating Hybrid Apps (be it with or without Ionic) is Gone Hybrid, containing quite a few helpful articles to get you kickstarted on a few specific things such as adding audio effects, animations, etc. Gone Hybrid | Start Developing Hybrid Mobile Apps With …

Vibrant.js – Extract prominent colors from an image

Usage is simple: var vibrant = new Vibrant(img); var swatches = vibrant.swatches() for (var swatch in swatches) if (swatches.hasOwnProperty(swatch) && swatches[swatch]) console.log(swatch, swatches[swatch].getHex()) Works by reading in the image, placing it onto a <canvas> element, and then getting all pixel information from that canvas. Vibrant.js →

Carbon – A simple PHP API extension for DateTime.

$carbon = new Carbon(‘first day of next week’); if ($carbon->isWeekend()) { echo ‘Party!’; } echo $carbon->addYear()->diffForHumans(); // ‘in 1 year’ Carbon is just a class which is designed to be used instead of DateTime. Due to extending DateTime, all DateTime methods are available to users of Carbon. Additionally, it implements a __toString method, allowing users …

Node debugging with TraceGL

TraceGL transforms your JavaScript, injecting monitoring code that produces a log of everything that happens. This log is streamed from the target – via the traceGL node.js process – to the UI for visualisation. The UI tries to display the resulting huge amount of information fast, and uses webGL to render everything. In the video …

d3-shape – Graphical primitives for visualization, such as lines and areas.

d3-shape: a small JavaScript library for drawing geometric shapes commonly found in data visualizations, with each shape driven by data through accessor functions. It works with both SVG and Canvas. Introducing d3-shape → d3-shape (GitHub) →

Apollo 17 in real-time

A real-time journey through the Apollo 17 mission. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1972. This is magnificent! It’s a timeshifted playback – with audio, photos, transcripts, etc. – of the events of Apollo 17, the last mission of the Apollo program which took us to the moon, exactly as they happened 43 years …

ng-inspector – The AngularJS inspector pane for your browser

ng-inspector is a browser extension for Chrome, Safari and Firefox that adds an inspector pane to help you develop, debug and understand your AngularJS applications. Handy tool to see how exactly the scopes are nested and such. ng-inspector →