Last night I finished my latest experiment in recreating the classic Tic-Tac-Toe game as a HTML5 Web Component. Here’s the result and a few details: Two players take turns on the same computer. The next version will support one player vs. the computer. Game lobby for selecting player names. No images or JavaScript animations, CSS3 … Continue reading “Tic-Tac-Toe Game Recreated as a HTML5 Web Component”
Remembering: The glorious times of yore, when giant Java applets walked Devearth trampling down IE – the only browser known to Devkind. The unforgettable past, when JavaScript believers were shunned, mocked and decried as non-developers. The dark ages, when CSS sorcerers were called designers. The romance of the hardest decision to take – to depend … Continue reading “A Dev Epic”
I recently left Germany relocating to the island of Malta, and a couple of weeks later I was finally able to deploy my new home studio with a new addition – an amazing custom-made 2 x 12 guitar cabinet with Celestion V30 speakers, custom built for me by Paul Gough of Zilla Cabs (cheers, Paul … Continue reading “My New Home Studio in Malta”
This animated horizontal accordion was achieved without a single line of JavaScript, but only with CSS and minimalistic markup: The widget utilizes a form with a list of hidden radio buttons, CSS3 transitions, transforms and sibling selectors, and works with all modern browsers, including IE9 (excluding the slide animation). Have fun and use for free, … Continue reading “Animated CSS3 Only Horizontal Accordion”
The blog post for today is my ramblings about common mistakes that novice web-developers make during their first steps in programming. Just for fun. They: Use W3Schools as a primary source for programming knowledge and do not question a single line of code they find there. (“W3C is a mystery world which I should learn … Continue reading “Funny, but True Facts About Novice Developers”