http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2018-10-15T10:43:33Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2018-10/rogue-time/ <p><a href="http://ondras.github.io/rot.js/hp/">rot.js</a> is a neat looking JS toolkit for making rogue-likes</p> 2018-10-15T10:43:33Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2013-07/tracegl/ <p><a href="https://trace.gl/">TraceGL</a> is really stepping up the game of JS debugging in the browser.</p> 2013-07-12T21:12:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-11/json-processing/ <p>If you're working with JSON on the command line, then I can highly recommend <a href="http://stedolan.github.com/jq/">jq</a> for simple data manipulation. It let's you mine into JSON data using an XPath-like query syntax and makes quick work of extracting the stuff you actually care about. The source is <a href="https://github.com/stedolan/jq">on the githubs</a>.</p> 2012-11-10T01:00:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-11/clippy/ <p><a href="http://www.smore.com/clippy-js">Clippy.js</a> is a recreation of Microsoft Agent, better known in its default configuration as Clippy. I'd suggest a look though <a href=https://github.com/smore-inc/clippy.js"">the source</a> to see how it all works.</p> 2012-11-02T22:11:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-08/javascript-meets-brainfuck/ <p>Patricio Palladino has done a really nice job with <a href="https://github.com/alcuadrado/hieroglyphy">hieroglyphy</a>, a library for turning any JavaScript code into strings of only <code>()[]{}!+</code>. The <a href="http://patriciopalladino.com/blog/2012/08/09/non-alphanumeric-javascript.html">explanation of his blog</a> is a great read.</p> 2012-08-10T20:19:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-07/revealjs/ <p>Perhaps next time I'm writing a presentation, I'll give <a href="https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js">reveal.js</a> a try. Some of the <a href="https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#examples">examples</a> looks pretty good.</p> 2012-07-31T20:43:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-07/javelin-js/ <p><a href="http://www.javelinjs.com/">Javelin JS</a> is full of interesting little things - always fun to find out what compormises other teams make to allow their particular development model to scale. The css classes vs sigils part makes a lot of sense.</p> 2012-07-10T20:13:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-06/more-underground-maps/ <p>Andrew Godwin has just released an <a href="http://stations.aeracode.org/">excellent mapping project</a>, visualizing a few London Underground stations, complete with public corridors, escalators, spiral staircases and platforms. The maps are 3D models, which you can pan and zoom inside the browser. Digging into the source is also worth a look, since it uses some nice canvas and <a href="https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js">three.js</a> guts.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://stations.aeracode.org/"><img src="/images/blog/underground.jpg" width="600" height="292" /></a></p> <p>Poking around his other work, the <a href="http://www.aeracode.org/projects/twintubes/">Twin Tubes</a> map is also worth a look - the underground network with each individual track visualized.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://www.aeracode.org/projects/twintubes/"><img src="/images/blog/twintubes-section.png" width="500" height="200" /></a></p> 2012-06-26T17:53:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-04/2768/ <p><a href="http://tech.dropbox.com/?p=165">the mechanics</a> behind <a href="https://github.com/lowe/zxcvbn">zxcvbn</a> are fascinating.</p> 2012-04-12T21:29:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-04/2767/ <p>rev dan catt has written up a nice piece on <a href="http://revdancatt.com/2012/03/31/the-pxl-effect-with-javascript-and-canvas-and-maths/">image processing for backgrounds</a>. a really nice effect</p> 2012-04-01T02:46:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)