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Some Handy Web Development Tricks
Posted on March 25, 2012
In this post, I would like to share some small but useful tricks I found in web development. Set up a simple server locally. For front-end web developers, setting up a PHP and mess around with all the web configurations is just inconvenient. But certain features, like XHttpRequest and web workers, are just not supported by some browsers when the page is accessed locally. Luckily Python has a really interesting utility: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000...
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Canvas Experiments
Posted on March 24, 2012
So I started learning the html5 canvas feature, and here are the three projects I coded. Crazy Paint makes the computer paint randomly on the canvas with a random brush. The brush draws random shapes, some filled, some unfilled, around the point being painted. If you are patient enough, you can try leaving the computer to draw on itself until it makes a nice wallpaper, like the one shown below. Simple Paint uses a lot...
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