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JavaScript Gameboy Emulator: Memory and GPU last year

Jack Vaughn posted on Ajaxian recently about a new blog series on building a Gameboy emulator using JavaScript. Now Parts II and III have been posted in the series: Part 1: The CPU Part 2: Memory Part 3: GPU Timings In the Memory section, Imran Nazar builds up a JavaScript MMU that can …
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The Web as an API last year

(Photo CC-A by JSConf) The ever prolific Michael Mahemoff has a nice blog post up about using Cross-Origin Resource Sharing to do cool cross site scraping, especially of microformats: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing makes it possible to do arbitrary calls from a web page to any server, if the …
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How to Become a JavaScript Bad… Shut Yo Mouth! last year

[Image CC-A by Terry Johnston] A fun post for a Tuesday morning, Aaron Newton shares his path to becoming a JavaScript ninja, and how you can too. Some of his tips (I encourage you to read the whole article): Study design and designers. I’m not saying you have to have the talent to be an …
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Glimmer: Visual Builder for JQuery Animations last year

From Tim Aidlin over at Microsoft comes a tutorial on using JQuery to do animation. The tutorial is focused on using a new library they have designed called Glimmer that allows designers and developers to create interactive elements and animations on web pages using JQuery. Using Glimmer you …
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HTML5Rocks Gets Awesomer last year

Version 2 of HTML5Rocks is hot off the presses! We think HTML5 will make your work more engaging and create a faster, more responsive experience for your users, so we’re happy to add today a slew of new content to html5rocks.com. If you want to not only get up to speed, but understand the …
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Tricks From Our Flash Friends: 3D in a 2D Context last year

If you’ve seen some of the cool work that folks like Mr. Doob or Gerard Ferrandez have done with HTML5/CSS3/SVG/etc., you’ve probably seen them emulating nifty 3D effects in the browser (move your mouse within the demo inline below to pan the camera): The demo above, by Gerard, uses …
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jQuery Mobile Announced; Touch-Optimized Web Framework … last year

I have had the pleasure to start working with the awesome jQuery team on a new mobile development. Today, John announced jQuery Mobile, “a unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation.” Palm has …
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Don’t Build from Scratch. You Now Have an HTML5 … last year

The HTML5 love continues to be doled out by Paul Irish. First, he offered up Modernizr and now, he’s teamed up with Divya Manian to create an HTML5 boilerplate which leverages best practices to get your started. It’s essentially a good starting template of html and css and a folder …
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Free talk at Yahoo on the 27th about the software … last year

Yahoo invites to their campus in Sunnyvale, California on the 27th of August to hear Douglas Crockford talk about “Loopage”. In his own words: Software development is hampered by a specific set of design mistakes that were made in the first programming languages and repeated in …
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What Can You Build in 1k of JS? last year

Here’s a fun way to end the week. Peter van der Zee has cranked up a cool contest where you’ll be judged on what you can build using just 1k of JavaScript. The rules are simple: Create a fancy pancy Javascript demo Submissions may be up to 1k. (And not crash) Externals are strictly …
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