My last post was about the Chuck Norris joke WordPress plugin. That project has now been extended. I’ve recently set up the website ICNDb.com. The goal is a free and open database of Chuck Norris jokes and facts, available as a RESTful web service and ready for anyone to use. A nice little extra is [...]
Last week I was searching the web for an online normal distribution calculator, you know, the thing with the bell-shaped curve and the Z-scores. I had to solve some exercises about this and wanted to check my solutions. I wanted an easy-to-use application that gave a quick and accurate solution. A graphical representation about what [...]
I’ve just entered my own demo for the 1K JavaScript competition. The purpose is to create a demo of just 1K of JavaScript and see what you are able to build with that. Check out my demo here, it’s a version of the all-famous Flash game Bubble Trouble (or at least what I was able [...]
Check this out! Gordon is a JavaScript implementation of Adobe’s Flash Player. This means it allows to run Flash movies without having installed Flash Player itself, which is a pretty awesome thought if you asked me. Supporting as much Web features as possible without the need of browser plugins always is a good idea, as [...]
The Processing language is “an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions”. It has now been ported into JavaScript, as processing.js. Processing.js scripts are linked to <canvas> tags. By using the methods for drawing shapes and controlling animation, drawing graphics in webpages becomes remarkably easy! Responding [...]
Impressive new project: a JavaScript emulator for the Commodore 64. It’s a port of an ActionScript (Flash) version that can be used as a plugin for the jQuery library. Check it out at http://www.kingsquare.nl/jsc64. You will need a decent computer and a browser that’s not Internet Explorer (because of the use of the canvas tag) [...]