Tag: javascript

• 14 Jul 2020 — Falling Text (in JavaScript)

  Sometime in May, about two months into my forced "work from home" stint due to the novel coronavirus, I caught a bit of inspiration.

• 03 Feb 2016 — Relearning JavaScript

  For the past few weeks, I've been participating in Boston PHP 's jQuery jAM . This virtual learning group is scheduled to run through the book Eloquent JavaScript , by Marijn Haverbeke. My JavaScript is rusty to be…

• 23 Jun 2013 — Creating Top-Level Variables With CoffeeScript

  I've been working on a small "Word Finder" game , mostly as exercise to learn CoffeeScript , a language that compiles down to JavaScript. CoffeeScript hides the tricky parts of JavaScript, and brings to the programmer…

• 20 May 2011 — Diving into HTML5

  Like a lot of programmers, I've begun to wonder what all the fuss is about regarding HTML5. Casting about, I found Mark Pilgrim's fantastic tutorial on HTML5, appropriately titled "Dive into HTML5" . I've been mucking…

• 02 Jan 2009 — Concentration Game Finished

  I finished that concentration game. You can play it at:

• 26 Dec 2008 — Writing a Concentration Game

  I'm writing a small JavaScript program to implement the simple game of "Concentrate". A few weeks ago, I borrowed JavaScript: The Good Parts , by Douglas Crockford . It's a terrific little book on what's good about…