Form Follows Function
Back when Flash was all the rage, one would find experimental sites like this all the time. It seems less common in the HTML5 world, which really makes this a gem.
Thursday, January 17th
Tuesday, September 18th
Responsive Measure by Josh Brewer
Josh Brewer created a nice tool to maintain typographic measure for responsive design.
Monday, May 21st
Ten Features I Like About CoffeeScript
If you write JavaScript on a daily basis, and haven’t checked out CoffeeScript yet, this is a great summary of some of the benefits you can expect to find. Sure, most of it is syntactical sugar, but anything that can make your code smaller and more readable is a good thing, in my opinion.
Monday, April 16th
Black Coffee
A few months ago, as an experiment to learn some new frameworks, I created a quick blackjack game in Spine and CoffeeScript. The game is not pretty, nor is it bug free: Notably, there are some issues with splitting and doubling down. Nevertheless, I’m open sourcing the app today, just in case it’s of any use to anyone getting started with these technologies.
Bugs and horrific UI aside, Black Coffee does know basic strategy, so it can actually tell you which play is “correct,” depending on the current hand. I hope to find some time to finish it out over the next few months, but hopefully there’s some value in open sourcing it in the meantime. Also: If you see a clear problem or way to improve, you know the drill: Fork and pull request!
Check out Black Coffee on GitHub!
Note: Most importantly, BC does not have semicolons at the end of lines. Amazing!
Wednesday, August 24th
spin.js
MIT-licensed, imageless, loading spinner which uses CSS3 where possible and falls back to VML for our buddy, IE6. Great little JavaScript project.
Friday, August 19th
Twitter Bootstrap
Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.
Typically I’m not a huge fan of development frameworks like this one, but digging into it there seems to be quite a few things to learn. Another framework worth looking into is the responsive Skeleton that comes from one of Twitter’s designers Dave Gamache (also on Tumblr).
Tuesday, August 2nd
Mobile JavaScript Summit
For anyone interested, I’ll be speaking at the Mobile JS Summit (an online conference) at the end of this month, August 30. Speaking from experience, these summits are fantastic ways to dive into a specific topic. Get in with a 20% discount by using the checkout code: 20KANEDA.
Monday, May 2nd
Day of JavaScript on Mobile presentation
Yours truly, presenting Sencha Touch at Google.
