Introduction I recently needed to create a stock ticker-type integration in a Google Sheet where I could retrieve stock quotes every minute and update several cells. This required a little bit of digging to get it to work correctly and quickly. Here’s what I did to put together refreshing functions Read more…
Introduction I recently ran into a situation that required files to be directly posted to S3 without using an intermediate machine as a middleman. This brought about some obvious challenges including but not limited to showing a progress bar or spinner during upload, the fact that the file needed to Read more…
A Zend Framework like MVC approach to building NodeJS enterprise applications in an easy to install NodeJS module. The new Zenhance NodeJS MVC Framework is up and running and available for install. The entire framework is comprised of a single NPM module and can be installed and running in less Read more…
A Zend Framework like MVC approach to building NodeJS enterprise applications in an easy to install NodeJS module. Zenhance A Zend Framework MVC like approach to building enterprise NodeJS applications. Zenhance does a lot of the heavy lifting for you such as auto routing to controllers and views, automatic caching Read more…
Introduction If you’re an avid user of ThreeJS you have more than likely at some point run into the situation where you need to either create a texture from scratch for the point of coloring it, or have had the need to update/draw on a texture for one reason or Read more…
Introduction I have previously released a jQuery Rubik’s cube plugin comprised of only HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Although pretty nifty, there were a few issues with regards to support from some browsers, most notably Firefox and Internet Explorer. I decided to recreate the plugin using WebGL. The result is my Read more…
Introduction I consider myself an avid speed cuber. Not world class, but fast enough and not too obsessed with it. That being said all the sites I’ve seen in the past with references to algorithms all seem to use really clunky client side Java or Flash plugins to handle the Read more…
Introduction I’ve recently had the need to store information using HTML5’s local storage API. To my surprise the API itself is geared toward only letting you store strings. That being said I needed to store and retrieve information in a way that would make it easy to retain types as Read more…
Introduction D3 and jQuery utilize distinctly different approaches to node manipulation and internal array storage. However, there are mechanisms available for converting between D3 and jQuery, and vice versa. D3 and jQuery Internals Let’s assume the following HTML structure: Now let’s retrieve the “test-node” elements with jQuery: As can be Read more…
Introduction If you’re a solid user of jQuery or just a tinkerer you may have thought to yourself “I have a great idea for a jQuery plugin”. Your next steps of course would probably be to look at the jQuery documentation and eventually to have a look at someone else’s Read more…