There were quite a few games built with HTML5 in the 10K Apart contest. The grand prize winner's submission was a game built using just canvas and JavaScript, measuring only 6.9KB.HTML5 is indeed making it easy to develop games for standard web browsers while also providing a way for developers to reach mobiles and tablets with a single code base.The Google sponsored HTML5 Game Jam has also produced some nifty games. Check the winning entries and also look out for Mozilla's Game On competit...
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Google's advertises Chrome features pretty well in its “20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web” guide. I didn't know about these till I read them up in that guide -In Chrome, for example, sync saves all bookmarks, extensions, preferences and themes to your Google Account. Use any other Internet-connected computer, and all you need to do is fire up Chrome and log in to your Google Account through the browser’s sync feature. Voila! All your...
Saturday, 27 November 2010
A few weeks ago, I discovered how jQuery plugins make it easy to implement numeric paging & rating of dynamic data. Amazingly, there are jQuery plugins that can almost mimic any server-side slicing & dicing of dynamic data.Continuing my experiments with the jQuery Template plugin, I implemented alphabetic paging on dynamic data fetched in JSON format using the Geonames.org webservice.Check the sample showing cities of India...
Thursday, 25 November 2010
Did you know, for high-volume search phrases, the Search Engines usually will NOT differentiate between singular and plural versions of a term? Check it for yourself by seeing the search results on these phrases - cell phone vs. cell phones. I was under the impression, until I took the SEOmoz quiz, that this was a case of stemming & there should be differentiation.Here is my compilation of all the interesting SEO Quizzes I have found (work in progress) -SEO Expert Quiz - the 75 questions there will take about 30 minutes. The answers...
Sunday, 21 November 2010
In an interview with New Yorker magazine cartoonist Peter Steiner, CartoonBank blog (dead link; I picked this content from their feed) asked him: Your cartoon, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” is one of the best-selling New Yorker cartoons of all time – and, since it was published in the early days of the Internet (1993), it is considered a prescient sign of changing times. Can you tell us the back story of this cartoon? At the...
Friday, 19 November 2010
"If you can’t dazzle them with your wit, bamboozle them with your bullshit." - AnonymousMy favorites from ComputerWorld's10 most exaggerated tech terms -Valued Partner: Except when that partner decides not to renew its licensing agreements, and then the vendor treats that valued partner the way Michael Corleone treated his valued brother Fredo.Don't Be Evil: How 'bout just a teensy, weensy bit evil when we feel like it, because we have good intentions?Facebook Privacy: FB's privacy policies (automatic opt-in!) seem to change as often as Zuckerberg's...
Thursday, 18 November 2010
“20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web” is an online illustrated guide from Google aimed at casual users. You can browse though it to catch up on the buzz-words or pass it to friends & relatives who want to know about the Internet thing. It is also available in PDF format for offline reading.It covers the following topics in a lighthearted, non-techincal way -What is the Internet?Cloud ComputingWeb AppsHTML, JavaScript,...
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Moving items between list-boxes is a common UI pattern in Windows applications.To simulate that in web applications with jQuery, check my no-frills code sample which uses an Unordered List instead of list-boxes. When items are moved back to the original List, the sequential order is maintained. This sample can be extended to have multiple Child Lists whose items can be moved to a single Master List.When an item is moved from the parent List, it is...
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Instead of debugging client-side code with the JavaScript alert command, using the Firefox Firebug extension & Internet Explorer Developer Tools' (F12 keyboard shortcut) Console commands makes debugging less distracting & simpler.The following Console commands work in both IE & Firebug -console.logconsole.infoconsole.warnconsole.errorconsole.assertTo use either of these in place of an alert in your JS code, make sure you...
Monday, 15 November 2010
With some help from the StackOverflow forum, I recently integrated the Star Rating jQuery Plugin on Github with jQuery Template plugin to make them work with dynamically generated data. Check out my code sample that's based on Stephen Walther's sample.Among the jQuery Rating plugins I tried, I found Chris Richards' Star Rating jQuery Plugin to be the most elegant.Talking of Github, I share @themaninblue's sentiment about...
Sunday, 14 November 2010
The grave risk of Internet users unwittingly letting out their private & sometimes confidential details while using unencrypted networks has been brought to focus by at least two startling incidents.Back in May, Google candidly admitted that its Street View data collection cars inadvertently collected and stored "payload data from unencrypted WiFi networks, but not from networks that were encrypted". More recently a Firefox extension...
Friday, 12 November 2010
The hot pursuit to get the most relevant results faster & in an appealing way is evident from the way competing search engines are building on each other's strong points.Before I buy a book, I like looking up Amazon to see not just how many stars it has got but how many people rated it (popular books have a large number of reviews) and also what some of the folks who gave it the highest & lowest rating have to say about it. This kind of opinion...
As with other consumer products, there are plenty of options when it comes to laptops. Zeroing in on the one that's right for you can take a little planning & research.Is a matte finish better than glossy? How to compare processors? What are the VGA, DVI, HDMI ports for?Microsoft's has some useful tips, answers & facts on laptops that can help you make a good purchase.If you are a power user constantly...
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Google Docs has some amazing features but there is one small detail thats conspicuous by its absence. File sizes are not shown in the summary view. If you are running out of space, there is no easy way to know which are the bulky files in case you wanted to remove some of them.Thankfully, there is at least a roundabout way that a nice person on the forums has identified & shared -Create a folder for the files whose size you want to...
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Do you feel left out & tongue-tied when your colleagues talk about Hyper-V, Private clouds & other virtualization jargon? If you always wanted to know about Virtualization but didn't know whom to ask, the MS Press book, Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions: From the Desktop to the Datacenter is for you.The freely downloadable ebook (10.6MB) has 450+ pages & the following six chapters -Chapter...
Monday, 8 November 2010
According to Scoble, here are the reasons why WP7 will be successful -1. It’s a sexy new OS that gives app developers more capabilities.2. Developing for it is easy and consistent across the devices that it runs on3. There are a ton of bored developers who are familiar with .NET4. Almost every developer I’ve met lately has been approached by Microsoft’s evangelists5. The hooks with Microsoft Xbox have developers intrig...
Saturday, 6 November 2010
I'm amazed at the sheer number of jQuery plugins that developers worldwide painstakingly build & voluntarily share. There is a vibrant, responsive jQuery community online that offers feedback & support to those seeking it. This community is one big reason which makes jQuery special when compared to other JavaScript libraries.To display dynamically generated records with client-side paging, I recently tried out Microsoft's...
Friday, 5 November 2010
As a convert to jQuery, I'm glad to see the support that Microsoft is lending it. Today, I went through possibly the first video tutorial exclusively on jQuery on the official ASP.NET website's training video series. Video content is sometimes easier to absorb than flipping through books or reading online articles. I plan to list all the good jQuery videos I find -How Do I: Make Ajax Calls Using jQuery? - this 21 minute video by Chris Pels covers the $.ajax() method & its many options.jQuery for the ASP.NET Developer...
Monday, 1 November 2010
Based on the success of their vulnerability reward program for Chromium open source project, Google has now announced a discretionary (Google Security Team decides if a bug is eligible), experimental (can be cancelled at any time) new vulnerability reward program that applies to Google web properties like -*.google.com*.youtube.com*.blogger.com*.orkut.comMore info in the FAQAlso see:Crowdsource your supplemental learning with Stack Overf...
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