MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide, authored by Jacob Gube and Garrick Cheung is an outstanding book. It aims to provide a solid foundation for MooTools new comers, and assumes a limited knowledge of Javascript, HTML, and CSS. This book aims at not just at providing a laundry list of MooTool function definitions, but at providing a complete coverage of how MooTools geared towards a beginner. I highly recommend it.
February 2nd, 2010
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OpenLayers Tutorial Part III – Controls. Tutorial covering OpenLayers Controls, various examples and sample code, including styling controls with CSS, placing controls outside the map in panels, and more.
January 27th, 2010
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I use javascript on a daily basis at work, and MooTools is my framework of choice. It’s easy to use, powerful, and has made my life exceedingly easier. MooTools did much of the heavy lifting in my Google Summer of Code project; I would have spent many more sleepless days without it. [...]
January 17th, 2010
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This post will cover the basics of Dijksta’s shortest path algorithm and how it can apply to path finding for game development. It is my opinion that understanding this algorithm will aid in understanding more complex AI algorithms, such as A*. This post is aimed more towards developers starting out in game development or those curious about Dijkstra’s algorithm, but this will be a somewhat simplification of it and discuss mainly the concepts.
January 15th, 2010
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Remove ^M characters in VIM by replacing \r with nothing. ^M is really \r. Use :%s/\r//g
November 4th, 2009
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OpenLayers Tutorial Part II – Tutorial covering OpenLayers Layers, including how it works on the backend, WMS, Vector layers, Google Maps and OpenLayer mashup instructions, and other Layer object related concepts.
October 23rd, 2009
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Tutorial Introducing OpenLayers, covering the basics of creating a map and populating it with a single layer.
December 31st, 2008
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WriteBite is a site that pays you to write. Specifically, you get paid to write rants. Make money to complain. Etc. It’s a mix of Digg and Break.com kind of. Except rewards go to writters, not people videotaping themselves blow shit up (although explosives are fun too). I’ve been working on the new site for [...]
October 13th, 2008
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CSS Lesson 21.Theory 1.1 Box Model2. Application 2.1 Display 2.2 Floats3.Property Shorthand 1.1 Property Shorthand4.Exercises 1.1 Exercise 1
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There are many tools available to help you create webpages. Programs that let you visually edit your site, like dreamweaver, can be easy to use, but restrict your ability to code. I recomend using only a text editor [...]
August 16th, 2008
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Sorry for the delay, you can find the original posting on the dev list.
Overview
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Finished up javascript code generation
Began work on CSS code generation
Well, this is my last official weekly status report for OLArchitect
for GSoC 2008. I will, however, submit a final status report on
Sunday night as the project deadline is monday, and once the summer [...]
