Friday, December 02, 2005

Russell Beattie on RSS + SMS

Russell gets all excited about a new Yahoo feature that allows you to get alerts for ANY RSS feed out there, as soon as it updates. And you can get it for free on your mobile device as well. It's almost like broadcasting. Coolness.

Canvas Test #4 - scrolling stars

I took a few minutes and coded up a very simple starfield - stealing some star generating code from the MDC tutorial and testing out using one [canvas] element as the source for another [canvas] element. Imagine generating textures and things via hidden canvases, then using them dynamically in other canvases... The mind boggles.

BrickQuest - lego based tabletop RPG


I know, you've probably already seen this before - via digg or del.icio.us or whathaveyou, but for the 5 or 6 who havent, this is cool. Imagine creating a tabletop RPG using Legos. Very cool!

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Mentioned on Scripting News - whoop!

Snazzy - I get mentioned on Scripting News:


Andrew Wooldrdridge sends a pointer to a feature in Firefox 1.5 that lets you do vector graphics in the browser? That's retro, and old school, and given the way things have turned out, progress.


Although I'm used to the fact that my name get's Misspelled more often than not...

Riffing on lightnet

Brian Reiger riffs a bit about a new meme starting to spread across the net called the "lightnet" -- which of course is the antithesis of "darknet". Lightnet is open, often free, and grows the more you use/remix/spread it.

JSON created form interfaces

This is an interesting prototype of a way to present interfaces using JSON as the means of transmission. Very cool!

Canvas: Big Wooden Clock

The evolution of canvas is starting. We are at the paramecium level now -- beyond just drawing random squares on the screen. I cant wait until fully fleshed out, sophisticated apps are built with some canvas support. Meanwhile, folks are starting to create interesting things, and clocks seem to be what many folks gravitate to.

Check out this nice wooden clock and be inspired to create your own widgets.

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

foXspose extension for Firefox 1.5

A friend here at work sent me this link which is to a new Firefox 1.5 extension. This extension lets you view all of your tabs at once in one window like OSX 's expose. Very cool!

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Canvas Painter

From the Canvas-Developers mailing list comes a new canvas link. Basically, it's a simple paint tool but it shows off just how versatile canvas can be in that not only is the paintable area a canvas, but the color picker and line size chooser are as well.

Monday, November 28, 2005

Firefox 1.5 out Tuesday!

Looks like Firefox 1.5 will be out on Tuesday sometime. The world's greatest browser is about to become even better. Get it while its hot.

neja | ribbon+bomb : Javascript Demo for Assembly '05

Ok this _is_ using javascript, but not the canvas tag. Instead we find an amazingly innovative javascript demo for Assembly '05 done completely in javascript. I cant wait to see what folks do who have been doing things like this, when they discover canvas...

Help make the demo more popular by clicking here...

Canvas Test #3 - spinning bouncing firefox

This test tries out the translation, rotation, and scale functionality of CANVAS. I present to you the next silly canvas demo - spinning bouncing firefox!

CanvasScape update: now with textures!

The soon to be famous CanvasScape demo which is an early demo of what a First Person Shooter might be like using the CANVAS tag has posted an alternative version with textures.

Sure it's slow, but the fact that you CAN do it, and with just a few lines of javascript, some html and a few images is simply amazing.

Web - based Ruby tutorial + interpreter

I found this on Oreilly Radar - it's a nice beginners tutorial on using the Ruby programming language. I'm a big Javascript fan myself, but Ruby's got some great features also.

10 (11) Rules for web startups

Ready to take that idea to the next level? Ready to get tons of email about why your idea is silly? Ready to create some snazzy rounded corners, invite only, web 2.0 startup? Check out this list of rules to help you along the way.

Sunday, November 27, 2005

Canvas Test #2 - random lines

Every day a new canvas test... hopefully. Today I go from random pixels to random lines. Whooo.

Lego ExoForce - Bionicle meets Alpha Team

It may not be under the Christmas tree this year, but if you have kids that like Legos, you'll probably be hearing more about this new line of toys from Lego. Perhaps its more like Gundam meets the Brickster?