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Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 1, 2012

Apple did not invent the smartphone

The smartphone is a device that has taken the world by storm. 18% of the world own one and rely on them day-in, day-out. Arguably a more important invention than the television or the phone itself.

The ‘Smartphone’ term was first coined by Ericsson in 1997 at the…

Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Oct 17, 2012

Writing jQuery plugins

There are a few simple rules to writing jQuery plugins which prevent issues later down the line.

1) start with an IIFE which passes through jQuery into its scope

(function($, window, undefined) {
// your plugin will go here
}(jQuery, window));

2) Define your plugin functions as an…

Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Oct 29, 2012

Google Calendar — Interesting Calendars

I have just found a great feature of gCal called ‘Interesting Calendars’.

1) Go to: https://www.google.com/calendar/render?tab=mc
2) In the bottom left, click the arrow on ‘Other Calendars’ > ‘Browse Interesting Calendars’ or go to ‘Settings’, then…

Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 14, 2012

Google Frontend Coding Standards

These two links are very useful summaries of some of the best practices in frontend coding.

Html & Css: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/htmlcssguide.xml
JavaScript: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascriptguide.xml

Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 7, 2012

Ace open source code editor

If you’re planning to include a live code editor in one of your projects you may have a hard time working out how to validate code within a text field and replicate formatting.

The hard work has been done for you with Ace code editor. This open source project gives you all the…

Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Oct 3, 2012

Really useful JavaScript plugins/helpers

Smashing magazine has posted a really useful long list of plugins and utilities to make web development easy and faster. You can view the full list here:
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/09/23/useful-javascript-libraries-jquery-plugins-web-developers/…

Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Sep 1, 2012

Modular JavaScript with require.js

JavaScript based projects are getting larger with more code, they are now quite often complete applications. One way to organise and divide your code into manageable chunks is to split the classes into separate files. This soon creates problems of dependency as each…

Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 13, 2012

Dynamically including JavaScript & CSS files

When creating JavaScript applications that run from multiple libraries, themes and files, you will hit a common problem.

- Including all of the files in your html page is a huge waste on download speeds and performance (when only half are actually…

Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Nov 2, 2012

Responsive, cross browser, object orientated

I thought it might be useful to share some tips and learnings I’ve gathered when building sites in html and css. In particular I am going to focus on:
- cross browser resets
- responsive html/css
- namespaced object orientated css

1) First we need to…

Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 13, 2012

HTML5 video events

When developing an html5 video player you use events to know when the player is ready, and to get the length of the video. You will also need to make them work cross browser and cross device.

This page is really useful for seeing the events fire with their relevant commands…

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