Debugging Google+ client-side Web Apps
You’re a developer. As you know, you don’t get everything right the first try. Sometimes, it takes hours of frustration figuring out what is going wrong in your program. This post is a collection of resolutions that I have found…
My intro video to Windows 8 development
Right before the build conference, I produced a video that was going to be the intro to Windows 8 app development. Various red tape blocked us from shipping it, but the brief intro actually is still actually relevant – various terms changed and the diagrams are…
CanvasChart.js, my HTML5/JS Charting Library
For a Windows 8 sample I was working on (the example Stocks App) I needed to produce a first-party library for charting the actual stocks. The following video shows the library I created: There have been various bug fixes and…
Fun with HTML Canvas
Just for kicks, I created a little script that would generate gradients, and put it as a placeholder on one of my domains. The following code shows how I’m rendering the gradients. <html> <script type="text/javascript"> var i; var rfactor =…
JavaScript: the programming language of the future
I have recently been gushing about how JavaScript is changing everything for developers and typically am greeted with an odd glare when I do this. So, I am going to summarize the reasons my mind has been blown by JavaScript:…
Playing with paper.js and background animations
After starting my blog, I got a few comments on my @gguuss twitter account about the animated background that I have. So, I figured I would write a short post about it. What is paper.js? I’m sure that its…
TwilioCollage: Programming the AppBar with RESTful services
Introduction Have you ever seen CoCollage? It’s a cool product that lets people share photos with each other onto a TV screen by sending text messages. I was trying to think of something cool to play with for the Windows…
Rendering comments from Google+ related to a post (or URL!)
In my previous post on retrieving Google+ activity and comment data, I looked into aggregating comments from posts using the Google+ REST API. As useful as that is for specific posts, I was interested in pulling in “related” comments and…