F# is a new language so the F# editor in Visual Studio does not have all the bells and whistles of say the C# editor. I particularly missed the C# outlining/navigation features in the F# editor. Fortunately, Visual Studio 2010 … Continue reading →

Following on from part 2 where I wrote a simple page with a canvas area where you can scribble, I thought I’d add a couple of new features: ability to show the image as PNG image so user can save it change the line cap change the line join change the shad[...]

This is a neat trick I picked up the other day, you can create a dynamic class which takes in a set of properties in the constructor and dynamically generates Accessor and/or Mutation methods (you just have to choose which lines to leave out): In your cal[...]

In C# and other similar general purpose languages, there are access modifiers which allow you to specify whether a particular property can be accessed/modified by everyone (public), only subclasses (protected) or only from within the same class (private).[...]

Earlier I explored some of the basic drawing methods available on the 2D context of the new canvas element in HTML5, moving on from there, I’ve put together another quick demo here (see image below) which lets the user scribble inside the canvas element. [...]

One of the cool new features introduced by HTML5 is the new <canvas> tag, which defines an area for you to draw graphics on using javascript. Basics To create a canvas element is as easy as inserting a <canvas> tag like this: Typically you will give it an[...]

As I go through the HTML5 spec, I find some useful new feature just about everywhere, and the new contenteditable attribute is certainly one of those. It’s supported by most elements and provides a simple and yet effective way for you to allow the users t[...]

HTML5 includes two new ways to store data on the client – local storage and session storage. Local storage has no time limit on how long the data should be kept around, session storage on the other hand (as the name suggests) stores data for only one sess[...]

As a late Christmas present I bring this to you dear readers: I recently invited David Pollak (of Lift fame), Jason Zaugg (of Scalaz fame), Philipp Haller (of Scala Actors fame) and myself to collaborate on a feature matrix that would allow people to see [...]

I’ve got some ideas for conference/group talks that I have yet to assemble, but I thought I’d let the community have a vote in what they’d think be interesting. Proposal 1: Git things done Approx time: 45 minutes “This is a case-study on moving from CVS/[...]