Battle of the Browsers
image by Andi Smith I had a great time at the State of the Browser conference in London on Saturday – it was nice to see representatives from FireFox, Chrome, Opera and MSIE all getting along so well. Getting along … There’s more
Gotcha! Fake MMO Asteroids April fool :)
Haven’t most April fools jokes got a bit silly lately? They’re more just funny than actually fooling you. This year, I thought I’d raise the bar with a completely fake MMO Asteroids, but I could never imagine so many of … There’s more
Node.js experiment: MMO Asteroids
I’ve had my eye on Node.js for a while now so I jumped at the chance to attend Remy’s excellent workshop a couple of weeks ago. Most people associate node with websockets but actually node is a hugely versatile platform … There’s more
Launch traffic takes down CreativeJS server
CreativeJS.com is the brand new place to go for all the very best examples of JavaScript and HTML5 projects, libraries and tutorials from across the globe. It launched today at 4pm, and 10,000 visitors brought the site down. Oops. Well … There’s more
CreativeJS comes home to Brighton
[UPDATE] SOLD OUT! In just a few days. Sign up to be the first to hear about the next one. [UPDATE] Early bird tickets sold out in 10 minutes! 3 tickets left! It’s with a heavy heart that I leave … There’s more
I am a Mozilla Person of HTML5!
Mozilla evangelist and rock star Chris Heilmann asked me some extremely intelligent questions, to which I hopefully provided some reasonably intelligent sounding answers. We talked about many aspects of the open stack; where is it going? What’s the future of … There’s more
New CreativeJS dates – NYC, Kansas and UK
New York – SOLD OUT Kansas City – SOLD OUT! UK dates coming soon – August I’m into my second week here in Manhattan and it’s been pretty exciting so far! Last week I had a tour of Big Spaceship … There’s more
HTML5/JavaScript platform game optimised for iPad
HTML5 canvas! Hailed as a competitor to Flash, so much so that Apple is using it as an excuse not to allow the plug-in on iOS. But what everyone overlooks is that canvas is horribly slow and pretty much unusable … There’s more
CreativeJS video from London Web Standards
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting my CreativeJS work at the London Web Standards Event. And they filmed it. And it’s here! It was such a friendly crowd and I had great fun. Rob Hawkes … There’s more
Multi-touch game controller in JavaScript/HTML5 for iPad
Now that browser-based games running on touch devices are becoming a reality, it’s time to figure out how to implement easy to use and tactile game controls in these new keyboard-less environments.
