20120129 London-New York (and back), via Hong Kong, Macau, Tokyo and San Francisco

The sketch book I mentioned a couple weeks ago has finally been released! To recap (just in case you accidentally ended here and have no context), it is a travel sketchbook depicting our experiences while travelling around the world these past April and May. I’ve finally settled on building a simple HTML(5) page with a [...]

20111110 Some notes from Google DevFest Barcelona 2011

I thought I wouldn’t make it to the place. Barcelona’s metro system is still pretty much unknown to me and it’s hard to find navigational help using the official web from the transport entity. Maps are confusing (we need a Beck!). A shame, but I finally did it, after walking the same loooong underground exchange [...]

20111031 Macabre Pool

This is the result of my fascination with skeletons* and me wanting to learn about Box2D in Javascript. Since everything is randomised, you might get two big skeletons or a big one and a small one, or two small ones. They sometimes look like they are alive, with spasms and all, while they jump around [...]

20111016 HTML5′s custom attributes minigotcha

I was trying to set a Javascript Object as the value for a custom attribute, but I was just getting “[Object object]” as the value when reading it back. This is actually the toString() version of my object, and was also my ‘fault’ for not reading the specs (or for daring to attempt something risky!), [...]

20101108 File upload & drag and drop with HTML5

My use case: I want to drag a file from my local filesystem and drop it into a web page. Then I want to do stuff with the data in the file. This wasn’t possible until recently, but thanks to HTML5 we can do this natively, without using external plug-ins. Yay!