Category Archives: web development

Introduction to JavaScript Source Maps

By Joshua Lay | Published: March 22, 2012

Another in depth write up by Ryan Seddon, aka The CSS Ninja. Have you ever found yourself wishing you could keep your client-side code readable and more importantly debuggable even after you’ve combined and minified it, without impacting performance? Yep. Tweet

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Introducing Web SQL Databases

By Joshua Lay | Published: February 12, 2012

Introducing Web SQL Databases by Remy Sharp The Web SQL database API isn’t actually part of the HTML5 specification, but it is part of the suite of specifications that allows us developers to build fully fledged web applications, so it’s about time we dig in and check it out. I wasn’t aware this existed; but [...]

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I’m Pirating the Next Version of Windows

By Joshua Lay | Published: January 19, 2012

Justin Cunningham writes what I think a lot of people experience: It takes less time than to buy it, I don’t have to deal with the broken Live login system, and the BitTorrent downloads are faster. I only know this because I had to download an ISO after one of my discs became unreadable, and [...]

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The Introduction of an Alpha Channel

By Joshua Lay | Published: January 15, 2012

Mavenous studios code lab: HSL and HSLA are absolutely amazing. HSL (Hue Saturation Lightness) is a much more intuitive method for defining colors, in my opinion. Rather than defining your gradient from one colour stop to another. You can transparency with a simple gradient overlay on the colour of your choice. This makes it much [...]

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CSS Creating Triangles

By Joshua Lay | Published: January 14, 2012

Jon Rohan writes how to create a triangle using CSS: Few people realize when a browser draws the borders, it draws them at angles. This technique takes advantage of that. If I wanted to create a down arrow I can use the following /* : top right bottom left */ border-color: slategray transparent transparent transparent; [...]

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The power of immersion

By Joshua Lay | Published: November 3, 2011

There’s a lot we’ve learnt from gaming in recent times. Innovation with rewarding players with badges, to understanding how to push the user just the right amount in developing their knowledge in an application. I think another great example of creating a great user experience comes from the newly released Uncharted 3. Tweet

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Mobile Web Apps

By Joshua Lay | Published: August 14, 2011

John Gruber makes a good point But think about it this way: it’s Apple that has created the best, by far, platform for mobile web apps. It’s Apple that created the “Add to Home Screen” feature in Mobile Safari, which allows mobile apps to appear on the home screen as peers to App Store apps. [...]

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