by Guru | Oct 19, 2022 | Software Development, User Interface Design
Fast food self-ordering kiosks are here to stay. Who knew there could be so many ways to get a McDouble? Those kiosks have been tried before, you know. Decades ago, one fast food spot in my town built cabinets to house old boxy touch-screen computer monitors for the...
by Guru | Mar 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
So I am working on a project where I have to search some HTML documents for a possible text string. This lead me to an interesting find in how browsers do searching on text. Let’s look at the following HTML. <div><div...
by Guru | Sep 13, 2012 | Programming
When using html5 audio and Apple’s safari browser on iOS there is a problem that occurs when you try to set the audio’s time. Html5 audio DOM object has an attribute called currentTime. This unfortunately isn’t available in iOS safari. This makes it...
by Guru | May 21, 2012 | Programming
So I found out something interesting with javascript and objects. Let’s say you have a cube object in javascript that is defined by this function. function Cube(x, y, z); Now lets say we had set the z value to be zero. Why would we want a cube object when it is...
by Guru | May 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
When writing object-oriented code in coffeescript, I’ve found that the jquery each method is insufficient, due to its use of “this”. I am forced to use the following syntax: $(‘.thing’).each (index, thing) => $(thing).css width:...
