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Scaling JS

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:27:27 +0000

Series of talks on writing scalable JavaScript applications.

Some Academic Conference Lectures

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:32:18 +0000

Some really good (and long) lectures on this site. Much of the content appears to be from conferences, so it’s peer-reviewed content that’s presented.

HTML5 Games without (fron)tears

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:05:47 +0000

Nice tutorial to et started wiring games in H5. No doubt useful for one or two project students!

HTML Dog

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:15:20 +0000

HTML and CSS Tutorials, References, and Articles. A well written set of tutorials. A welcome alternative to W3Schools which I despair at for its bland, unhelpful and uninspiring content.

An HTML5 Image Uploader

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:30:32 +0000

Things are simpler these days. This can be used for uploading images and includes niceties like showing thumbnails.

Introduction to SVG

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:45:41 +0000

A new tutorial from the W3C on SVG.

Another Node.js & WebSockets Example

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:44:51 +0000

Remy Sharp installs and configures a small virtual server and writes an even smaller node.js server object to stream tweets. NodeJS was fantastically well received at last year’s full frontal conference in Brighton.

Connecting Linked Data Tutorial

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:43:42 +0000

Resources, pointers, guides, links, discussion and tutorials about linked data.

Parliament UK: Statistics

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:57:24 +0000

Thirteen easy pieces on stats, including: sampling, confidence intervals, regression analysis, averages, risk & uncertainty.

The Official Guide to HTML5 Boilerplate | Nettuts+

Rich — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:08:18 +0000

Ajaxian » Google I/O Sessions for Web Devs

Rich — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:39:24 +0000

Advanced CSS3 Box Shadow Techniques | Carsonified

Rich — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:34:27 +0000

Code Tutorial Blueprint

Rich — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:42:19 +0000

I just watched a nice presentation by Yahoo evangelist Christian Heilmann who opened the show at FF09 yesterday. Whilst there’s a lot of good ideas throughout regarding the maintainability of JavaScript code, one nugget stood out about code tutorials. Christian Suggests a four pronged presentation strategy when writing tutorials for designers – it is equally valid when presenting concepts to fresh geeks:

Say what it does.
Show a working example.
Include the full code of the example.
Explain the example using code chunks interspersed with descriptive paragraphs.

A simple & sensible blueprint!