Tech
Last Thursday I headed to Berlin for Reject.js, a community JavaScript conference organised to coincide with JSConf.eu.
Tech
Toob is a London Underground travel app for Windows 8 that I am designing and developing for CodeProject's App Innovation Contest. It is currently a work in progress but I have written an article introducing the application and going through some useful technical information for anyone interested in writing HTML5 applications for Windows 8.
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In this post Colin Eberhardt's Property Finder app gets another outing, but this time with a native twist.
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This post describes a jQuery plugin which performs "picker style" animations between numbers using CSS3 transitions and transforms.
Tech
Most of us have had a play with CSS3 3D transforms, stacked a few elements, rotated them, maybe even made a cube out of them.
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Intellisense for JavaScript has always felt to me like an unfinished addition to Visual Studio, something that promises so much but doesn't deliver for larger projects.
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HTML5 versus native (iOS:Obj-C, Android:Java) mobile development is a hot topic at the moment, with Facebook's ditching of a hybrid HTML5/Obj-C app in favour of an Obj-C-only app the latest blow to land.
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I have just found out that my article "A Gesture-Driven Windows Phone To-Do List" won first place in the July 2012 best mobile article category.
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A while back, when PhoneGap for Windows Phone was still in beta, I created Property Finder, an application for searching UK property listings.
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This post looks at how to construct Java's built-in hash based Map implementations to ensure they have sufficient, but not excessive capacity.
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Captured webcam frames arranged in a 3D rotate-able cube for your viewing pleasure. A simple tech demo trying out the new getUserMedia API in Chrome 21, with some 3D transforms and canvas based pixel manipulation thrown in for good measure.
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Recently, I've had the opportunity to have a bit of a play with GWT's upcoming and excitingly titled "Super Dev Mode".
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A couple of weeks ago Josh Smith published his latest book, "iOS Programming for .NET Developers", which seeks to ease the transition from .NET to iOS developers.
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Over the past few weeks I have been working on a Windows Phone to-do list application, inspired by the iPhone Clear app.
Tech
This blog post describes the creation of a simple twitter search application for iOS, based on a similar application I wrote for Windows Phone a few months back.
UX Design
A critical appraisal of my 'If Broad Habitats In The UK Were Clustered...' visualisation, highlighting some of its shortcomings and issues in the underlying data source that the 'pretty picture' does a good job of masking.
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Intrigued by Mark Easton's question on Twitter, 'How much of Britain is built on?', and inspired by the associated article, The Great Urban Myth of Britain, I wanted to put the UK NEA's statement that '6.8% of the UK's land area is now classified as urban' into some kind of context that actually made sense to me.