September 2011
4 posts
Puppet Box Progress!
I now have a little puppet box playground up. It only works in Chrome, but that’s ok cuz it’s an experiment. Go ahead and open it in multiple browsers or pass the link to a friend to see how collaborative it is. You can drag the images around, and you can also paste in new images just by copying them off the web (use Copy Image) or out of image editing programs like photoshop. This...
Puppet Box
I started on something I’ve wanted to make for some time. A puppet box! It’s just a simple web app you can paste images into and drag them around collaboratively with your friends. I’ve got the pasting, dragging, and syncing done so far. Now all I need is multiple rooms, server-side persistence, and support for a few more interactions like deleting and you’ll be able to...
What I've been working on
I always have a million projects on my mind, but here are the top ones of late:
Angular + Organizer and Elemental Chess
To learn Angular.js I started porting my old organizer application to it. The new source code is on github now. The old app uses Google Gears for the client-side sqlite database with full-text search features, but unfortunately Gears is no longer supported by any browser and...
HTML5 Dev Conf
I signed up for this on a whim, and I’m glad I did. I learned about a lot of new fun things out there.
The biggest booth at the show was for SpacePort, which can extract vector art from flash files and render it in SVG and CSS or OpenGL ES. They’ve also ported the Flash AS3 API to JavaScript. This seems aimed at helping Flash developers port their apps to native mobile apps and...