The Infinite Genies Paradox
There’s not many people out there who haven’t heard the story of Aladdin–it’s a story with quite a bit of history and has got recognition in many forms, including a cartoon rendition created by Disney. It’s a creative and interesting story, but it’s also quite flawed and most people don’t even notice that.
Back online! ….mostly…
UPDATE: Everything works now. So I decided to switch from Slicehost to Rackspace Cloud, since my server was overloaded and having all sorts of network issues. Unfortunately things kind of exploded. I managed to get the site back online, but the URL rewriting isn’t working at the moment and I’m at work right now, so [...]
JSGame – Game development in Javascript!
I’ve recently started work on my newest Github project; JSGame. It’s a fork of philogb’s V8-GL which, as you can likely assume by the name; is an implementation of OpenGL using Google Chrome’s V8 javascript runtime. At the moment, the only difference in JSGame is a mostly untested implementation of OpenAL. I also plan to [...]
jquery.flash is on github! (and updated)
I’ve recently starting committing changes made to jquery-flash to github. You can view the project page for it here. I’ve also made a few updates, the most notable being; I moved the checking code to seperate functions called isie(), hasflash() and flashversion(). All of which can be used anywhere, with or without using $().flash(). I [...]
Node.js – I’m a fanboy already.
About a week ago I discovered a unique new programming technology called node.js. It’s an event-driven javascript system running on Google’s V8 engine and is primarily focused on functioning as a web server. I hesitate to call it a web server however–it’s much more than that!
OiNK admin found not guilty, pigs fly, hell freezes over.
Alan Ellis, creator of OiNK, the most renowned Bit Torrent based music sharing site has been unanimously declared not guilty by the jury in his recent court appearance. This is a massive success for freedom and a huge blow to the corruption of the current music industry. It will be most interesting to see what the response is to this in the coming days.
Talker – Waves? Campfires? I just want to talk!
I, among many, jumped on the Google Wave Dev Preview bandwagon. The video demonstrations they had were so nice and polished looking, but after getting the chance to try it first hand it’s polished sheen quickly faded–it was buggy to the point of being unusable and collaboration was so awkward. As a Wave expanded it [...]
jquery.flash v1.3.1 – Squashing IE-related bugs.
If you downloaded v1.3 of jquery.flash I would recommend switching to this one. There has been no functionality changes, so it should just be drop-in. It fixes a minor bug I added when I switched to using indexOf() for iterating through attributes and parameters…apparently IE doesn’t support it. >.>
jquery.flash v1.3 is ready!
There’s nothing major to change in such a minimal library, but such a difference the little things can make! New in version 1.3 is;
- Class inheritance
- Src inheritance from href for easy conversion of links
- Built-in support for allowfullscreen parameter
- Minor fix to dimensions inheritance
- Added availattrs and availparams to settings object allowing anyone to add support for any extra attributes or parameters they might need!
- Moved lots of code around to use as little characters as possible, allowing optimal minification. All this new functionality and it got even smaller! It’s now down to 1.91 KB.
jquery.flash – Who needs swfobject when you have this?
I’ve used swfobject many times before in the past, but I just don’t like it. It works well, but in the modern web environment of performance-critical web apps and Javascript frameworks that give you elegant access to DOM elements it just feels clunky having to go back to the ‘old’ way of doing things…so I decided to make jquery.flash!
Why use it? Well for starters it minifies to just over 2 KB, rather than the 10 KB of swfobject! How about automatic plugin and version detection? How about complete cross-browser compatibility? If jquery.flash isn’t a perfect fit for your flash embedding needs then you are just asking for too much. 