Any web developer that has been working in the field for awhile can tell you the frustrations of having to support multiple browsers and testing apps against them. Only until recently we had to just think about Webkit/Gecko browsers and then the rogue IE6/7. It seems like those might be the good old days given the recent news of more fragmentation in browser engines. Just as we think browser makers ...
I received a question about this a little while ago and I finally got around to making a blog post about it. The person was asking about making a custom YouTube percentage bar like the one you see on videos right above the thumbs up and thumbs down icons. Intrigued I looked at the code and boiled it down to something that perhaps you all could use for a project... ...
I was tinkering around with some jQuery and created a little bit of code that I thought I would throw out into the Internet ether. I am sure it not the most efficiently optimized, but it does demonstrate some things can do with a little jQuery and the contextmenu event. I see this example as something you could easily build off of and with a little styling and a little ...
The recent explosion of JavaScript frameworks and libraries in web development has been undeniable. I can think of 10 libraries right off the top of my head and I have seen a site that lists 34 libraries just for visualizations. I am happy to see such a diverse ecosystem of easy to use tools sprouting up in the web development community. Certainly some of them make development a heck of ...
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a bit of a stickler when it comes to traditional software design principles. I do believe they lead to outstanding software products when they are followed correctly. This isn't to say I am not flexible when it comes to new ideas to improve traditional rules. When I saw the introduction of PHP traits in 5.4.0 I was eager to learn all about ...
One common obstacle facing many first-time PHP game developers is the concept of how time passes in their web-based game. With desktop / mobile applications, time can continuously run via a timer mechanism because it is always running on the device. PHP works in the disconnected world of the Internet. When a request comes into the server, it fires off the request to the PHP program for parsing, parses ...