Introduction If you’re an avid user of ThreeJS you have more than likely at some point run into the situation where you need to either create a texture from scratch for the point of coloring it, or have had the need to update/draw on a texture for one reason or Read more…
Introduction I have previously released a jQuery Rubik’s cube plugin comprised of only HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Although pretty nifty, there were a few issues with regards to support from some browsers, most notably Firefox and Internet Explorer. I decided to recreate the plugin using WebGL. The result is my Read more…
Introduction I consider myself an avid speed cuber. Not world class, but fast enough and not too obsessed with it. That being said all the sites I’ve seen in the past with references to algorithms all seem to use really clunky client side Java or Flash plugins to handle the Read more…
We’ve all run into situations where we need to truncate text due to length constraints. Most of the time this simply requires a truncation function which determines the maximum length of text and if the string exceeds that length, truncates it and adds an ellipsis (“…”). But what about when Read more…
Introduction D3 and jQuery utilize distinctly different approaches to node manipulation and internal array storage. However, there are mechanisms available for converting between D3 and jQuery, and vice versa. D3 and jQuery Internals Let’s assume the following HTML structure: Now let’s retrieve the “test-node” elements with jQuery: As can be Read more…
Foreword So I was developing a Facebook application and realized that once the content was rendered inside of Facebook, I kept getting scrollbars. This was terribly annoying being that I wanted to take up more vertical space, but didn’t want the iframe to have scrollbars. Instead, I wanted the main Read more…
Foreword Absolutely positioned elements can be quite useful, but what if you have something centered or off to one side and you need to just nudge an absolutely positioned element. The following will show you a handy technique for moving absolute elements relative to the elements around it using nothing Read more…
Introduction Facebook “like” buttons are pretty easy to implement – if you have a straight forward site. If you are loading your content using AJAX or some other form of delayed load, you might notice a problem if you’re not using Facebook’s iframe. FBML users have probably noticed that when Read more…
There are a lot of hacks out there dealing with getting specific CSS files to load on a per browser basis. I wanted to try a different approach. I wanted a way to specify the default or standard CSS that all pages will use as well as a way to Read more…
Foreword The following is a quick crash course in using jQuery. If you’ve never used jQuery before and want to know to how without reading a ton, this is the tutorial for you. Getting Started First download the latest version and include it in a page. Grab the minified version Read more…