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BC$ (JS/xHTML/CSS) Web Framework
Collage of JavaScript frameworks. (Photo credit: TripWire) In light of the massive popularity of existing JavaScript frameworks such as Dojo, jQuery and the original one (as far as I’m concerned)...
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Tracking Mouse Position and Window Size via JS
Image via Wikipedia The following is a useful little script I’ve found myself digging up repeatedly these days while doing some early UI testing on my teacher-student Medical E-Learning portal project....
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The Server-Side Proxy
Image via Wikipedia The Server Side Proxy… oh how I despise thee. It’s a technique which we wouldn’t have to utilize at all, were it not for Browser security restrictions (which are admittedly in place...
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RSS Reader in jQuery .vs. JavaScript (AJAX)
Image via Wikipedia Parsing RSS is a task that many developers have been faced with. jQuery makes this significantly easier on the client-side, but the good ol’ AJAX is not that bad either if you set...
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SOAP Web Services in jQuery vs JavaScript
Image via Wikipedia So I’ve been working with a LOT more SOAP-based Web Services since I’ve started up in a government software development position. While in the past, most of my Web Service...
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Push-Messaging with JMS
Hiram Chirino, Logo for Apache ActiveMQ, http://activemq.apache.org/ Released under the Apache Software License 2.0 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) While the finer details of new web standards like...
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Video Game XML schema and JSON serialization
The original!!! In HTML5 to boot, wowowowow!!! In honor of the recent uptake in video games designed on the web completely using open web technologies (i.e. HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript2), I decided it...
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From Flash to JavaScript and back AGAIN
Image via Wikipedia Inspired by several tutorials I did back in University, I decided to update a little script to pass data in between Flash and AJAX using only pure JavaScript and ActionScript to...
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Dynamically Resizing an iFrame
Example of an iFrame - Loading Google.com search bar iFrames, love them or hate them they are all over the web. When used properly, they can actually enhance a user’s experience for example by...
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Remotely exchange data between iFrame and parent (jQuery .vs. HTML5)
One of the many nagging web development problems that the HTML5 working group is addressing with the new HTML specification, is the difficulty in working with content or exchanging data in between an...
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JS Transformer
Image via Wikipedia The official release of one of the most useful (yet hackish, and randomly pieced together from the interweb) code snippets I’ve ever made. I’m calling this useful little piece of...
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WordReference API – AJAX SDK & Widget
Yesterday I wrote about the Google API shutdown. It seems that I was wrong in that post about Wordreference not having an API, just a few days earlier founder Michael Kellogg announced the...
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Parser for XMLTV format and SchedulesDirect data
Image via Wikipedia For a long time now, I’ve been a paying customer of SchedulesDirect, and by that token their parent company Zap2it (now a Tribune Media Services company). Recently, I’ve started...
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iScroll with HTML5 Video and Pause/Resume
Image via Wikipedia iScroll 4 is the latest version and release of an excellent content slider-type JavaScript component by Matteo Spinelli. While one may argue that content sliders are a dime a dozen,...
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Cross-Platform Social Media Sharing Tool
Image via Wikipedia Social media has taken over the web (for now) and the name of the game is sharing, something legislation like SOPA and PIPA just didn’t seem to understand. Rather than figuring out...
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Popcorn.js + Embedded Video = Semantically Enhanced Video Content
Popcorn.js is an incredibly useful framework for adding timing-based events and/to Semantic metadata to rich content. Tear gas used against OWS protesters - Image via Wikipedia According to Mozilla:...
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Unboxing the MintChip
Royal Canadian Mint (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Royal Canadian Mint(RCM) has sponsored the MintChip Challenge 2012 in an effort to attract developers to the idea of developing software for the...
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E-Learning for Toddlers and Pre-Schoolers: HTML5 Memory Game
These days, digital distractions are far too proficient at taking our attention away from important responsibilities. You know, like giving your children the care and attention they need and deserve....
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Working with LimeSurvey’s RemoteControl2 JSON-RPC API in PHP
Hideous LimeSurvey shirt (Photo credit: juhansonin) Recently, I needed to switch away from SurveyMonkey, which, while still a useful free service for quickly collecting some basic Survey results,...
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JS Podcatcher (a Podcast client written in JavaScript)
English: The “Made for iPod, iPhone, iPad” emblem appearing on accessories approved by Apple Inc. for iPod, iPhone, and iPad. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) So just this month my 5-year old iPhone 3GS...
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