Skull
Did not publish anything here in a long time. Let’s start with a doodle of mine. In free time I’m doodling some graphics. Sometimes I can even show them publicly.
When all hope fails
For a project of mine, I needed to implement a live reload mechanism for an HTML file. The problem was, it was a local file, which of course was a big no-no for every type of fetching data from another location.
Just so we are on the same page, by local file I mean every HTML document that is opened from a location that has a file:// protocol.
The mechanism was supposed to work as follows:
- My tool would re-create the HTML file and update a JSON file every time that happened.
- The HTML document, if previously opened in the browser would in some magical way read the JSON data from disk and check the content. If the content had a property with newer date than the one that the document already possessed, then the document would reload itself.
- Boom, magic.
Fun with anti gravity
Some time ago, I needed a simple crowd algorithm for a project of mine. In that project there was a bunch of entities, which were moving towards a common target. Everything was alright until those entities were close to the target and each other - every entity was placed at the target at the same point. I’ve tried to implement some collision detection for every entity, so if one entity detected that it is colliding with another one, it would stop moving and wait for the second entity to go away. Node.js gamepad driver
Some time ago I wanted to play an old-school game and I wanted to use my game pad, and of course I could not find it. The solution? Create my own game pad, but with limited hardware related skills that would be quite difficult. The next best thing - to use a touch capable device. But it turned out quite quickly that it would not be so easy. It’s not a problem when the HTML5 game pad controls an HTML5 game on the same server/browser, but what about native games? Rile.js - html5 epub reader
What is it? It’s a small HTML5 based EPUB document reader. I’ve created it partially for my fiancee’s writing blog, and partially because I have never done anything with an EPUB format, and I didn’t know anything about it. Right now the reader is in an early alpha stage and works on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The next step is to get it working on IE9/10 and other browsers. Hello World
Welcome to my new front-end related blog. I have created this blog for 3 main reasons: To share some stuff I’m currently working on. To store some things that I wouldn’t like to forget. And to share some knowledge on various levels of advance (sometimes a lot of people ask me about the same thing on many occasions, so it’s better to point them to your own article that just to tell them: “ask Google”).