Posts filed under “JavaScript”
NodeCopter Brighton & kinect-drone
Last weekend I attended NodeCopter Brighton, a day of hacking AR-Drone’s and node.js. I wanted to control the drone by hand jestures using the Kinect’s motion detection abilities. Links to the high-res versions (.mov, .mp4 or .ogv) of the video Hackdays are funny, sometimes everything comes together, other times small things just trip you up. [...]
Faster version of microformat-node
I have just uploaded a new version of microformat-node. The parser now takes between 30-40 milliseconds to parse an average page, about 8 times the speed of the last version. Features of new version About 8x faster at parsing Will now load onto Windows based hosting solutions correctly Inbuilt cache system, which can be customised [...]
New node.js microformats parser – microformat-node
I have built a node.js microformats parser, it is based on my previous javascript parsing code. It has been packaged up so you can easily be add to your projects using npm. Source code: https://github.com/glennjones/microformat-node Test server : http://microformat-node.jit.su Install npm install microformat-node or git clone http://github.com/glennjones/microformat-node.git cd microformat-node npm link Use with URL var [...]
Beyond the page – Fullfrontal 2011
Well what an amazing experience fullfrontal was this year. Had lots of fun doing the talk once I got my computer to display the slides (sorry about that). Big thank you to Remy for giving me the opportunity to speak and for putting on Fullfrontal. View more presentations from Glenn Jones. Drag and drop demo’s [...]
Web Intents – Gluing web functionality together
There is a new concept forming at the moment called Web Intents. The name is a reference to the Android feature which allows applications to register their “intent” to handle certain types of actions. The screenshot above shows all the options for sharing an image on my Android phone. The underlying application does not have [...]