Moving to the Web 2: Dark Territory
Chris Price, April 17th, 2012
This series of posts (part 1) are attempting to do the impossible, to try and give desktop developers a brief introduction to developing on the web. I say impossible because the web is such a vast topic. On one side sits stacks of bizarre and nuanced APIs, but on the other mountains of really useful [...]
Explodz – A Webkit DOM Visualizer
Chris Price, March 9th, 2012
A little while ago Colin showed me a tool for inspecting the visual tree of a Silverlight/WPF application (Snoop thanks Colin!). The bit I remember was a 3D view of the app, where an element’s on-screen depth represented it’s depth in the visual tree. I thought it could make a good stress test of -webkit-transfrom [...]
Does delete walk the prototype chain?
Chris Price, March 6th, 2012
This is a quick post relating to a Rhino bug I’ve just fallen foul of. This probably isn’t very interesting for most folk, but if you’ve come here from Google then hopefully I can help you out! Let’s start with a definition (from the excellent MDN) of how the delete operator should behave in relation [...]
Moving to the Web
Chris Price, March 2nd, 2012
This post is an attempt to do the impossible, to try and give desktop developers a brief introduction to developing on the web. I say impossible because the web is such a vast topic. On one side sits stacks of bizarre and nuanced APIs, but on the other mountains of really useful resources and frameworks [...]
A TodoMVC Closure Example
Chris Price, February 17th, 2012
I recently had a need to create a demonstration application showcasing some of the features of the Closure toolkit. Whilst I was trying to think of a suitable example to implement, I remembered coming across a project called TodoMVC. TodoMVC is a GitHub project which aims to re-create the same simple to-do list application using [...]
Movember Themed Bookmarklet
Chris Price, November 24th, 2011
I recently came across the mustachify.me service. Inspired by Movember, I just had to spread the mo-ssage. One bookmarklet later, I can now man-up any page* I deem appropriate. I’ve picked some likely stooges from Scott Logic for you to test the link out on. Admire them first with their frankly boyish faces, before clicking [...]
Full Frontal Conference 2011
Chris Price, November 15th, 2011
Last Friday I headed down to Brighton for the annual Full Frontal conference. It was my first time there and I’m very glad I made the trip. The quality and breadth of the talks given far exceeded my expectations. Thanks to Remy Sharp for his organisational and timekeeping skills, and everyone else who made the [...]
Dart – a few wildly speculative thoughts
Chris Price, September 13th, 2011
Colin’s post on Dart and the other fallout from Google’s announcement across the web sparked a few thoughts in my mind, so I thought I’d share them. Firstly I think it’s important to point out how much of what is currently being said is speculative. Most people’s opinions on Dart are covered with disclaimers especially [...]
Bezier demo
Chris Price, August 23rd, 2011
I was reading over one of the tutorials over at html5rocks.com (if you haven’t had a look through them before I’d thoroughly recommend it!) and came across an article by Ilmari Heikkinen on creating a “kiosk-mode” for chromeexperiments.com (another thoroughly recommended site!). The article itself was pretty interesting but it was a pretty insignificant part that caught my eye. [...]
Scott Logic Newcastle Grand Prix
Chris Price, August 9th, 2011
Last Thursday night saw a tense battle for the podium at the inaugural Scott Logic Newcastle grand prix. The race was held south of the river at Karting North East in Sunderland, but most people didn’t let that, or the afternoon of torrential rain put them off! The race started with a 15 minute practise [...]