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BC$ (JS/xHTML/CSS) Web Framework
Collage of JavaScript frameworks. (Photo credit: TripWire) In light of the massive popularity of existing JavaScript frameworks such as Dojo, jQuery and the original one (as far as I’m concerned)...
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RSS Reader in jQuery .vs. JavaScript (AJAX)
Image via Wikipedia Parsing RSS is a task that many developers have been faced with. jQuery makes this significantly easier on the client-side, but the good ol’ AJAX is not that bad either if you set...
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A quick XSLT tutorial
Image via Wikipedia This post is meant to be a brief XSLT refresher, since I tend to need to rely on several web resources as references to remember the obscure functions and element names available...
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l10n Locales (HTML) select box and data (SQL)
Image via Wikipedia L10N is an acronym that stands for Localization (coming from the 10 letters in between “L” and “N” in the word Localization). L10N is a combination of software and language targeted...
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Video Game XML schema and JSON serialization
The original!!! In HTML5 to boot, wowowowow!!! In honor of the recent uptake in video games designed on the web completely using open web technologies (i.e. HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript2), I decided it...
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JS Transformer
Image via Wikipedia The official release of one of the most useful (yet hackish, and randomly pieced together from the interweb) code snippets I’ve ever made. I’m calling this useful little piece of...
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How to deploy an Apache Tiles project
Apache Tiles is Java's leading version of a widget container, built on the Portlet specification. In Java, portlets are similar in concept and serve almost the same functional purpose as widgets in...
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Parser for XMLTV format and SchedulesDirect data
Image via Wikipedia For a long time now, I’ve been a paying customer of SchedulesDirect, and by that token their parent company Zap2it (now a Tribune Media Services company). Recently, I’ve started...
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Sports Stats API feeds evaluated: ChalkGaming wins
Image via Wikipedia Well, I’ve decided to give this one away in the title, since the good folks over at ChalkGaming helped me out quite a bit while consulting with a big client who wanted to integrate...
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FOAF and the Facebook Death Star
The Facebook Death Star Since the February confirmation of the Facebook IPO, Facebook has continued to stagnate in user-base yet as an organization it holds no punches as it attempts to grow...
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HTML5 Radio Tuner (powered by ShoutCast API)
Pioneer radio tuner 70s (Photo credit: Barrie Sutcliffe) Since I wrote about Skeumorphs last month, I thought I’d include this piece I had worked on. This is an older idea I had that I’d done the...
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HTML5 Audio Player Jukebox
A jukebox icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Here’s a piece of work I did on a freelance basis back in early 2012 for a client who allowed me to retain the full rights to the code as a “library” which I...
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NB Hackathon – NoSQL, BigData and Linked Open Data for Government
This month, I participated in the NB Hackathon, an event that aims to bring developers in Atlantic Canada (particularly NB) together for the purpose of hacking on some interestling Linked Open Data and...
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JS Podcatcher v2.0
This is the first revision of my quick and dirty Podcatcher (podcasting client). English: Podcast or podcasting icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It adds three new features: Ability to search for Podcasts...
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HTML Tutorial and Web History lesson
Today, something unexpected happened. I had the (somewhat unplanned and impromptu) pleasure of showing the ropes to the “new recruit” at work, a student here for a work term over summer break. Now,...
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HTML5 Audio version of the iconic Flash XSPF Player
The XSPF Music Player is one of those “history of the web” old-time greats. It is a Flash application (SWF file) that was originally created by Fabricio Zuardi in late 2003 and which gained massive...
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