UPDATE: This is now obsolete, with the adoption of WebExtensions.
Now that Firefox has built-in developer tools, it makes sense for developer add-ons integrate with them. MDN has some examples on creating a developer tools panel, but the examples do not look anything like the built-in tools, and do not offer any information on how to do so.
If you ever wanted to use scroll events in your web app, you’ve probably found what a mess it is. I know I did when I was developing the theme used on this website. There are snippets out there to try to resolve legacy browser issues, but all of them are half-baked and missing basic functionality such as proper feature-detection and the ability to remove an event listener. All of these issues seems simple, but are actually quite complex to implement properly, and without memory leaks.
We can do better! That’s why I created this library.
Recently I decided to try out webpack as a replacement for Browserify, and it didn’t disappoint! Out-of-the-box, webpack even support’s AMD, so RequireJS-based libraries can be used as-is. This got me thinking, jQuery switched to RequireJS a while back for their source code and build process, so I questioned:
Could webpack be used to load individual jQuery modules?
Today I have released AMD define factory patcher webpack loader as open source and available on NPM. It is a webpack loader aimed at solving a problem that some AMD-based JavaScript libraries have developed which renders them incompatible with webpack.
Revisional metaboxes in WordPress made easy.
Today, I present to you WordPress Revisional Metabox, a WordPress PHP library to make revisional metaboxes dead-simple, released as open-source on GitHub. This library is even easier to use than the usual procedural methods for registering custom metaboxes, so I have provided an option to disable revisions on a metabox in case revisions are not appropriate for all your metaboxes.
My latest open source contribution to the world is jquery-ajaxreadystate, a jQuery plugin which adds a new AJAX function with readystatechange capabilities, available for download on GitHub, NPM, and Bower.
This is a quick tutorial on importing the example AIRControl projects into Flash Builder. The following screenshots were taken from Flash Builder 4.7 for Mac but the steps for Windows and Flash Builder 4.6 for both platforms are nearly identical (I will note the differences).
I have published a small update to AIRControl which will hopefully address some scattered performance issues a few people have been reporting.
I have made the following changes:
I have also added a new example for how to use the new debug callback function.
After much anticipation, and a few delays, AIRControl has been released!
This Adobe AIR Native Extension replaces my old and decrepit JoyQuery extension, and brings new features including improved controller support, POV hat switch support, the ability to get the name of the controller, and Mac OS X support!
The download includes a few example and full AS docs which should be enough for experienced ActionScript AIR developers to start making great apps! I will be posting an AIRControl tutorial in the coming days to help new developers get started!
One of the things this website gets a lot of traffic for is an Adobe AIR Native Extension I had made a few years back called JoyQuery (if you must have the old version, it is still available here). Since then I have been working in my spare time, which fluctuates in and out of existence, to create an updated version that is more powerful, more efficient, and has a more elegant API.
This new version, with a new name AIRControl, will be completely open-source (except for the Adobe AIR code libraries from the AIR SDK I cannot legally distribute), and be compatible with both Windows and, for the first time, Mac OS X. The project is currently hosted on my AIRControl GitHub repository.
I am nearly complete with this release. I have finalized the C++ code to interface with the game controllers, built the native libraries, and tested them; and they are running beautifully. Now I am currently in the process of writing the ActionScript side of the library, to expose all the wonderful new features of the native libraries to your projects. With all of the hard parts finally out of the way, I expect this release to be finished no later than this weekend!