Online Web apps. It’s a topic worrying me a long time ago. What we have? Where we go? Why? What should do we do? Web apps are here to stay, and to stay for a long time. Back in the days We have to look backward to understand what is happening here. We used to think in the Web as a big big collection of websites or, technically speaking, using [...]
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Today I was playing around with the Swig templating engine on Express for NodeJS, and I came to a problem: Extending templates doesn’t work I was using two template files: index.html layout.html My app.js code was: …and I run into this error: Error: Circular extends found on line 3 of… But, after a few hours investigating I got it! You only have to initialize the Swig engine like this: So, [...]
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El próximo 20 de Abril estaré en el I Betabeers Badajoz organizado por el W3B (Desarrolladores de Badajoz). Esto promete. Next April 20th I’ll be on the 1st Betabeers Badajoz organized by W3B (Developers Group from Badajoz). http://w3badajoz.com/2012/04/w3b-organiza-el-i-betabeers-badajoz/
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Introduction Last months I was dealing with Design Patterns, trying to understand how them work and how to implement in javascript, because of the Didgeridoo IDE development, and today I’ll write about Module Pattern and Module Revealing Pattern. These are the ones I used for a part of the Didgeridoo project. By the way, it’s better if you know something about Design Patterns before. Creational Patterns, Structural Patterns and Behavioral [...]
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Since <canvas> and <video> tags support appeared, we have what we need to make live video processing with HTML and Javascript. But the question was, what about performance? There are a few processing calcs to draw the video in circles, but it happens a lot of times per second (at least 24 because of the 24 fps), so the performance can decrease so much. At the beginning i did glowing [...]
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Didgeridoo is, or is intended to be, a web based IDE, but it’s in a so early stage yet. These are some of the features: Completely standards-based web application (it means, no plugins required at all). Modularity, based on RequireJS modules, and a easy way to adapt existent plugins (i.e. jQuery plugins) to Didgeridoo modules Design Mode to help designing websites visually. Toolbox with all HTML Elements, and 3rd party [...]
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Yes, i know, it’s a common way to start a programming blog… but i couldn’t resist! Since it’s my first post, i would like to tell you that, as a programming blog it will have programming related things, of course, but i don’t want to make “just another WordPress blog”, neither i don’t want to make another “Index Blog” you can check to stay informed about last tendencies on programming [...]
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