Monthly Archives: April 2012

Ruboto, the project that has brought jruby scripting to Android devices, continues to improve, and has made it easier to concisely define new user interfaces for your scripted Android apps. The traditional method of writing UIs within the script has … Continue reading →

Do you – or someone you know - take credit for your employees’ ideas, hire relatives or withhold crucial information? Be honest! If so, this short how-not-to guide, Traits of a Jackass Manager: A How-Not-To Guide for Managers Old and New may be … Continue reading →

In my Using HTML5 Canvas vs. SVG blog post, I touched on the benefits of using the Raphaël.js JavaScript library, and in this tip we will take a deeper look. Raphaël.js is a JavaScript library for creating SVG graphics. Before … Continue reading →

The following represents the most utilized books by Safari Books Online subscribers during the month of March, 2012. Title: Head First Design Patterns By: Eric T Freeman; Elisabeth Robson; Bert Bates; Kathy Sierra Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.   Title: Head First … Continue reading →

Whenever I develop a web application that targets mobile browsers as much as desktop browsers I find myself confronted with the problem that I have to listen to touch events in the same way I have to listen to click … Continue reading →

In this post, I will discuss some of the key features of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and HTML5-Canvas based graphics. Let’s start off by explaining the basic differences between these two technologies! Canvas Thanks to the current hype for HTML5, … Continue reading →

If you’ve been using Adobe Shadow to preview your local content, you may have run into a sticky issue – namely that if you’re using Virtual Hosts to serve up private local content, you can’t use Shadow to preview your … Continue reading →

by Andrew Savikas Safari Books Online has been delivering digital books on the Web for more than a decade now, beginning long before widespread commercial eBooks and the adoption of the EPUB eBook standard. While it’s always fun to be … Continue reading →

Continuing the theme from a previous post, titled My First Time With Node.js, let’s suppose you’ve written a class that you want to test as part of a continuous integration build process using Node.js. How would you go about getting … Continue reading →

In My First Time With Node.js article I wrote an application using Node.js. Follow along if you’ve ever had troubles loading modules in Node.js. If you’ve played with modules a little, you may have tried your hand at writing your … Continue reading →