This week I had the pleasure of attending Seb Lee-Delisle's Creative HTML5 and JavaScript workshop and even as someone who classes themselves as an expert JavaScripter (I hope!), I still learnt tons.

I recently had to work on a project for iOS that required that sound play on particular actions being performed. The problem is that iOS and HTML5 has been seriously oversold by Apple and the devices are pretty poor in comparison to the desktop. Audio and video are particularly poor, so to solve my problem [...]

node.js is clearly the hottest thing since sliced bread, and recently I've been working on a larger project that runs as a node server. The problem I encountered was that, unlike a PHP based web app, whenever I made any changes to the code, I would have to manually stop and start node. This bugged me. [...]

Me this weekend: I can't count the number of times I've cursed CSS for not having a :parent pseudo selector: a img:parent { background: none; } The what followed was some going back and forth with people who have thought this properly through.

A polyfill, or polyfiller, is a piece of code (or plugin) that provides the technology that you, the developer, expect the browser to provide natively. Flattening the API landscape if you will.

I'm a big fan of the WebSockets API for all the real-time goodness it offers, but the iOS platform doesn't (currently) bake the WebSockets API in to mobile Safari. That sucks, particularly because I can enjoy making iOS native apps using awesome frameworks like PhoneGap. However, because I'm using PhoneGap, I can create a PhoneGap [...]

With Marbles2 for iOS I wanted people to be able to click on a url, like http://marbles2.com/app/?seed=2A72367A and if the app is installed on the iOS device, for it to launch Marbles2 and initialise with the "seed" passed in. It required a change to the iPhone PhoneGap project, which has been since merged in to the [...]