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Thoughts on the MYO
Holy jumpin’ gestures, Batman! The MYO just announced themselves on the scene today. It looks crazy good. The website claims that it intercepts the electrical signals coursing through your forearm to...
View ArticleBook Review of Instant Android Fragmentation How-To
Yep, another book review! This one was a shorter one, and sounded interesting, so it was easy to dive right in. It didn’t cover what I thought it would, though if you read the table of contents, it’s...
View ArticleLet’s Kill Javascript with Sensational Headlines!
The following article came across my G+ feed today: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/the-future-of-javascript/ Basically, the article’s headline indicates a major throwdown is ahead of us. People will...
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Anatomy of a Kinect Like Gesture
As anybody who’s stopped by my blog over the last few months knows, I’ve been experimenting a lot with depth cameras like the Kinect and making it work as a plugin in Node.js. Happy to say that I’m...
View ArticleAngular + Backbone + Dojo: A Fundown
I’m trying to avoid internet negativity at all costs lately. It’s so passe. But I was having such a rockin time working with AngularJS today, I just had to tweet that it was my absolute flavor of the...
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Finally Picking a Focus – Sweatin’ to the Web
I jump around in technology like nobody’s business. One minute you’ll find me illustrating, another minute you’ll find me doing web apps, and the next you’ll find me doing games. And then I’ll bust...
View ArticleDrag and Drop with AngularJS and jQuery UI
I actually haven’t used jQuery UI much, and been just tooling around with AngularJS. That’s why when a recent project came up at work which had the typical ASAP schedule, I thought: “Let’s put...
View ArticlePainting with Chrome’s WebSpeech API
A while back, when Chrome 25 was still unreleased, I tried out the beta version. I was directing my attention at the “WebSpeech API”. It failed MISERABLY. I don’t know if the ambient noise in my...
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I got my Oculus Rift VR Headset Today
Ooooog. I’ve been noodling around with this thing for about an hour. I think I’m at a good stopping point because I’m a little motion sick. It’s weird because I think I’m only getting motion sick...
View ArticleMy first Node.js plugin for 3D motion sensing
Well that’s a little bit of an awkward title – its not ONLY my first Node.js plugin I’ve released on NPM but it ALSO does 3D motion sensing! So brand new on both counts – I’m no Node.js plugin/addon...
View ArticleAdventures in Silicon Valley Job Hunting
Admittedly, I’ve been quiet lately…too quiet. That’s because I’m taking the plunge and looking for work in the California Bay Area! For me, a UI developer, the North Carolina Triangle Area, while a...
View ArticleBack from JSConf
Oh good, someone already posted the “dripping with love” review of JSConf and organizers Chris and Laura Williams: http://adambrault.com/post/52004360603/just-a-person I’m so glad that’s out of the way...
View ArticleIdeas from Game Programming: A Resource Library with AngularJS
This is actually a pretty simple concept – but it might not be intuitive for everyday web applications. I didn’t even think of doing this until I started making a game (of sorts) in AngularJS. The...
View ArticleIdeas from Flex: Visual Application States in AngularJS
Macrodopache Flex. That’s what I’ll call it – because during it’s different incarnations it was managed by Macromedia, then Adobe, and now Apache. This brief intro is for all the Flash haters out...
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You Suck, NCDevCon
Yah, I mean it…I can’t go and you suck for being awesome. And you suck even more for being even more awesome this year. NCDevCon has a special place in my heart. I was there for the first one, actually...
View ArticleGruntJS for those with shit to do
Look man, I just want to use Grunt. I got shit to do. I don’t want this to be a big thing – I just want to get in, set up my tasks, get them running, and get out and continue on with the REAL work in...
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Interaction Zones and the Leap Motion
I finally got myself a Leap Motion! It came in the mail around last week and I promptly plugged it in to play around. Prior to getting it in the mail, I read some great reviews of the hardware, but...
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Fun with Geolocation and the FourSquare API
I’m on a race to get some blogging done before my lovely wife and I embark on a weeklong car trip to move to California. Sure I can do some on the road, but I definitely want some screenshots for this...
View ArticleA Supervisor for Node.js
So, I’m writing this blog post because, despite how simple a concept the “Supervisor” is – I feel like I could have easily missed this super handy tool. In fact, I might go so far as to say that if I...
View ArticleIt’s the Open Sourced SharkAttack, yeah!
I’ve been working on my project called “SharkAttack” for awhile. It started out as a simple little Adobe AIR app to download new music from RSS feeds. Soon after, I rewrote the whole thing as a service...
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