So I attended a game jam this weekend. I haven’t done any flash programming for about 2 years, so it was fun to take a trip back into the past and write some Actionscript again. I went with my friend and we were paired with a couple people. There are a few things I’ve learned … Thoughts about hack-a-thons
The Quest for the Graphical Web was an experimental presentation I put together with some amazing friends and the team at Adobe to tell the story of how the web is evolving from a graphical perspective. You can watch the full recording of the presentation from the Create the Web event. A web version can be viewed … Graphical Web Experiment
I love RequireJS. Javascript, with all it's flexibility and power, tends to lack a bit in organization and dependency management. ECMAScript 6 promises to fix with classes and modules, but until then we have RequireJS. I'm not going to go over in detail how RequireJS works, but in short, it allows you to create modules which … RequireJS better organizing dependencies
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to speak at W3Conf in San Francisco this year. My talk was about reading experiences on the web, ways we can improve them and where we see this going in the future. In the talk I show off how we can use Regions for visually stunning magazine layout … Digital Reading Experiences
Blend Modes have probably been one of the most highly requested features in canvas. Canvas is great for gaming and rich visual effects down to the pixel level, and though we can do shaders and GPU enhanced effects in webGL, we don't always want the overhead of it's more verbose API. 2D Canvas exposes a … Canvas Blend Modes in Safari on Desktop and iOS7
I was invited to PhoneGap Day US in Portland Oregon to talk about the web. I used it as an opportunity to discuss capabilities and features making their way to the platform that I think can change how people build web applications. You can watch the video of my talk below.
Facebook loves changing their platform and API’s and discovering the correct way to do things isn’t always easy. So there used to be a sharer.php link you would pass parameters to, including images and other things that would be in the post. This has been replaced with the below version which seems to have much … How to Pass Custom Parameters to Facebook Custom Share Link
I spoke at HTML5DevConf last October. My talk was called “Web + Wow” and explored the web as rich medium and different techniques people can use for some interesting effects. You can find the synopsis and video below and the slides are up here. An exploration of the web as a medium. The web is … HTML5 Dev Conf “Web + Wow”
Adobe recently open sourced Snap, a javascript library for manipulating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) on the web. The library was written by Dmitry Baranovskiy, who wrote the popular Raphaël library for vector graphics on the web. The reason for writing a new library was that Raphaël was written at a time when older browsers like … SVG Animation with Snap
Earlier this year at SXSW I gave a presentation on Rich Web Experiences, involving different technologies and techniques you can use to build richer experiences. This was an evolving talk that I've continued to work on and will be doing the latest version at Adobe MAX this year in Los Angeles, come by and check … SXSW 2014: Rich Web Experiences and The Future of the Web