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  • 9:22 pm on July 16, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Glow by the Beeb! 


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    Last couple of days I have been prodding around the Glow Javascript library from BBC. Very interesting and seems very similar to jQuery.

    Has a similar syntax for example

       1:  glow.ready(function() {
       2:  
       3:  });

    this is the first bit you put for all Glow scripts. In jQuery scripts you start them with

       1:   $(document).ready(function() {
       2:  
       3:   });

    So very similar… What I have found with Glow it is more focused towards coding visual widgets as they call them on the Glow website. The widgets include, AutoSuggest, Carousel, Editor, Panel, Slider, Timetable and many more. They are also really easy to code, for example Carousel is the one I have been messing around with and with less than a 100 lines of Javascript had a pretty basic Carousel going.

    Documentation seems to be good as well but there is a distinct lack of user submitted examples. Whereas with jQuery there’s loads!!!

    I believe once Glow starts to get more widely used it is going to be very popular!

    More posts will come regarding Glow in the near future…

     
  • 1:14 pm on July 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Been AWHILE! 


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    So it’s been awhile so a few changes firstly a New theme and hopefully more updates to come.

    Using the P2 theme, going to make a couple of modifications though and add a few features.

    Check back soon!

     
  • 12:12 am on April 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Why touch is not a revolutionary technology to the web 


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    The way a user interacts with the web has been the same for a very long time now. The user uses a keyboard and mouse to click, select and move information and interact with the page. With the influx of new touch devices the way the user interacts is changing rapidly but this is only interacts with the device not the actual website. As a web developer I use HTML, JavaScript, PHP and many other programming languages and using these languages I code interactions for the mouse and keyboard only. I don’t code a event handler for a finger, or a “pinch” and because of this the new multi-touch devices, like the iPad, iPhone, Tablets, and other touch devices.

    Until web developers have the ability to program actual interactions with finger interactions then no touch device is going to be revolutionary for the web.

    In fact I believe with the current state of touch devices, touch devices and the web are never going to revolutionize the user experience.

     
  • 2:37 am on January 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: annoyed, annoying, apple, mac, mac pro, macbook pro, money, PC, windows   

    Mac’s 


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    I look at Mac’s all the time, and consider buying one. I mainly look at the laptops, specifically the Macbook Pro. Reason I look at the laptops and not the desktops, is because I feel a PC is always going to be better than a Mac Pro or iMac, all because if I feel like it I could upgrade a PC for a few hundred quid, reinstall it and it will be a lot better. With a Mac I wouldn’t be able to do this, well possibly with the Mac Pro. But the iMac this wouldn’t happen and I believe when paying £1.5k to £2k+ for a desktop this is stupid, a laptop is different.

    Every time I look at the Macbook Pro’s I get put off from buying one, and that’s due to the cost! These laptops are so expensive that I couldn’t justify the cost right there and then, I mean I got a perfectly good laptop at the moment that my dad gave me, its about only about 1.5 years old, and runs Windows 7 Enterprise amazingly.

    If I had a laptop that was 3 or 4 years old then maybe I would get a Macbook Pro, or if I had a large amount of cash just lying under my bed. But until that it’s going to be a while and this annoys me, why do Mac’s have to be so expensive, I mean it doesn’t cost £1.5k to make a laptop so why sell it at that price, surely if they were cheaper they would sell more and if they sold more they would clearly make up the difference?

     
  • 9:55 am on January 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    3D-Logic Flash Game 


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    Found this 3D-Logic flash game, and its really good. There’s 30 levels, I think I completed it in an hour or two. Only had to look up about 3 levels for clues. Worth checking out…

    http://www.thatvideogamesite.com/play.php?id=392

     
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