Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 1, 2012

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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…

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Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 14, 2012

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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

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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…

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Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 13, 2012

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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…

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Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 13, 2012

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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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Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 7, 2012

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Testing touch events using your mouse

If you aren’t running xCode then you can test touch events using this bookmarklet

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Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 6, 2012

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Controlling multiple YouTube Players at once

I’m constantly using the YouTube Player API to embed videos on sites with special functionality such as hidden controls, looping or synching to live feeds.

Howver one function always seemed to be elusivein the API. This was the ability to control all…

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Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 6, 2012

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GIT programs and tutorial

If you want to store your code in the cloud, then GIT is one of the best options out there. GITHub is a site that allows you to store your code for free and collaborate with other users which has really been useful to me.

However GIT is not simple to pick-up and use, as most of the…

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Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 2, 2012

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The Internet Map

Just stumbled across this amazing map of the internet which shows levels of activity and the sites other sites users also visit. It creates an amazing universe world of dots which are all interconnected.

Great fun to explore but probably useful as a research tool too!
http://internet-map.net/

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Kim T in Creative Technology Concepts & Code

Aug 24, 2012

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Cross browser background opacity

If you want to create a semi-transparent background you can either use png image files or use this useful css:


background: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#99000000, endColorstr=#99000000);
-ms-filter…

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