Dave Taylor - Software Engineer

I have started a small collection of JavaScript Euclidean Vector classes.

On starting a new project recently I started making notes on the kind of questions I would want to ask myself at the beginning of every project.

I’ve been doing a fair amount of creative and 3d programming recently.

I have been working with Canvas 2D and WebGL recently and have been using Maths I never expected to see again once I left school.

I have recently moved house and family away from London.

In this series: Making a simple HTML5 racer game Adding a track and colliding with it Adventures in HTML5 Games I had the pleasure of presenting at AKQA Anoraks in London on thursday.

I began building a very simple HTML5 racer game back in November.

One of the first articles I wrote on this blog back in May 2010 was about how useful sprites are and how to use them with CSS.

Another year is starting to blur in my memory and so it is befitting to reminisce and get down all the crazy fun things which have happened this year.

I needed a way of applying velocity and drag to a new UI I am putting together, much like the one I built in to jQuery.kinetic.

Facelift The RFU revisited the WE ARE campaign and brought a lighter face lift for the RBS 6 Nations in February last year.

I needed to add automated tests to jQuery.kinetic I released jQuery.kinetic, a while ago.

If you want to open the result of a form submission in to a new window you can without having to go via the server.

I’ve been wanting to try my hand at doing some game development for a while and I finally managed to make a start.

I stumbled on this frustrating iOS5 bug where adding Google maps to a page made elements disappear.

One of the last projects I completed before going away to Toronto in March 2012 I was a responsive web site and app for an annual Sitecore event called Digital Trendspot.

Have you ever come across the term “Catastrophic Backtracking” in relation to regular expressions?

I am working on a rewrite of markdown writer, my playground for working with backbone.js and HTML5 offline capabilities.

I attended the second #anoraks talk last Thursday at AKQA in London.

I have been away from permanent developer work on a 5 month course focusing on character, leadership and identity and have been impacted so much by the experience.

We had this elephant in the closet issue while working on a project about a year ago.

I have just finished my time at Aqueduct after two and a half years leading the front-end work there.

I have just finished a project for Adam Ball who is an artist based in London.

Installing Blackberry Simulators is a bit of a nightmare.

Respons-ish-ness I’m often a bit of a purist, but as I age, I’m realising more and more the history of the web, much like most other histories is a pretty messy pit of layers laid on top of layers.

Time to grovel, my gift to dan this morning was to erase all his hard work!!

I have put together some highlights from the year’s work.

I have just had an issue where form validation will pass for the following postcode: ec1r 5ar <script>alert("hi")</script> The only reason being the fact that there is a valid post code at the beginning.

I did a lunchtime session on some Git basics last week.

I have been getting frustrated with the readability of the article body text within Google Reader.

Aaarg!

I’ve been taking a look over all that has happened this year as it seems to have disappeared in a bit of a haze and there have been a few great things that I would like to remember 2011 for.

I have just created a simple jQuery plugin to add the opposite functionality to the jQuery.param function.

I’ve just finished reading Html5 for web designers by Jeremy Keith and would really recommend it.

Today was the Fifth International Blue Beanie Day and so in my support of web standards I sported the blue beanie courtesy of Francis Gilbert. 174 people have put their pic up on the Flickr group and changed their social avatar all to show we ♥ web standa…

Last night was the yearly Sitecore site of the year awards and our team at Aqueduct won our category for the FA Just Play website.

It’s always nice to start another responsive project, each a little more daring than the last.

Bandwagons come and go, when looking back there are so many which fall in to the category “forget/can’t believe I jumped on” but with the rise of require js and other module loaders using the commonjs Asynchronous Module Definition I think this is one ban…

I have done some more work on the jquery.kinetic plugin to add vertical scrolling.

I have released another jQuery plugin which gives you drag and throw functionality inside an scrollable container just like you expect on touch devices.

There was an issue raised on Stack Overflow for the liScroll news ticker which I updated a while back now.

I’ve started reading Agile Software Development with Scrum.

I’ve started reading Agile Software Development with Scrum.

I like the way sitecore allows you to manage a lot of the functionality of it’s RTE from within the content editor itself.

I am trying to put together some thoughts on testing the various aspects of the Front-End to content based web sites (ie not web apps).

I have had a few conversations recently with people asking about tools and resources so I thought I would put a post together pooling a few things together.

I had a great visit to the FA yesterday at Wembley to meet Mindaugas Vaiciulis and Tomasz Libich to take them through the new FA Skills codebase and architecture.

I have been continuing my work with Arnold Zokas on building a scaleable JavaScript solution which combines with a simple console app.

I can’t believe how long it has been since my last post.

I’ve come across some really good articles recently which I thought I would share.