Design of Gesture Recognition Libraries for Web
If you are a web developer, you might have dealt with mouse and touch gestures. You might have written code to detect a swipe from a stream of native browser ev...
Tag: javascript
Robust Geographical UTM Coordinate Parser
There are many ways to write geographical coordinates in UTM coordinate systems in the wild: 327874 12345 N 6730758 E 327874 6730758 N, -327874 W e327874 n67307...
Julia Set Fractal Renderer in JavaScript
Julia sets are curious two dimensional shapes. Many of them exhibit fractal borders in various unique and beautiful forms. To explore them in a web browser, I s...
2D Geometry Libraries for JavaScript
Here is a collection of javascript programming libraries that focus on 2D plane geometry. The collection aims to map the most successful of such libraries and t...
Benchmark of Elementary Mathematical Operations in Node.js
How fast or slow are common mathematical operations to execute in a web browser or Node.js? How slow is a division when compared to a multiplication or a sine f...
World Birth Rate Visualization
To answer the need to create the first meaningful data visualization with my rain animation library Sprinkler.js, I needed a topic. The topic had to deal with a...
Published Bit Chest
Have you ever needed to request a photo or a document from your friend, customer, or co-worker? This simple task of sharing a file often becomes unbelievably ha...
Contribution to the Official Node.js Redis Client
Today I improved the public documentation of the official Redis database client for Node.js via a GitHub pull request. The improvement was just a tiny clarifica...
JSON.parse vs JSON.stringify
JSON.parse and JSON.stringify are two JavaScript functions that are used to convert JavaScript objects to JSON strings and vice versa. Today I wanted to test do...
Tapspace.js – A lib for Zoomable Web Apps
A zoomable web application has a zoomable user interface, a ZUI. For a familiar example, the user interface of Google Maps is a ZUI. A user can zoom in and out ...