Category Archives: api
Google o3d
http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/ Forget papervision (and it’s processor hogging code) O3D is an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. This API is shared at an early stage as part of a conversation with the broader developer community about establishing an open web standard for 3D graphics.
New York Times API
Besides the nifty Congress API, NYT released a fantastic API to their articles. “With the Article Search API, you can search New York Times articles from 1981 to today, retrieving headlines, abstracts, lead paragraphs and links to associated multimedia. Along with standard keyword searching, the API also offers faceted searching. The available facets include Times-specific [...]
jQuery – Everything you need to know
jQuery is maturing and looking quite nice, here’s another introduction, besides the great jquery.com documenation. http://nettuts.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/everything-you-need-to-know-about-jquery-13/ api documentation: http://api.jquery.com/
Y!OS : Yahoo Open Strategy
This looks interesting… http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/04/introducing_the_1.html Y!OS platforms will harness Yahoo!’s unique strengths – our rich and relevant user experiences (we’re #1 in 7 verticals), our massive audience (half a billion users/month), and our deep data repositories (content, content, content) – and open them to the innovations of the developer community. Our aim: to fundamentally transform how [...]
YUI Library 3
Yahoo has released a pr1 of their revised YUI Library. The YUI team is pleased to announce YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1. This preview is an early look at what we’re working on for the next generation of YUI Library. Pleasereview the API, play with the examples, and read the documentation on this site for details; download [...]
Flash Links & Reference
Just added a new page of useful flash links: Flash Links & Reference
2D ActionScript 3.0 Physics Engine
2D ActionScript 3.0 Physics Engine APE (Actionscript Physics Engine) is a free AS3 open source 2D physics engine for use in Flash and Flex, released under the MIT License. APE by Alec Cove.
JavaScript Info Visualization Toolkit
The JIT is an advanced JavaScript infovis toolkit that was based on 5 papers regarding different information visualization techniques. The JIT implements advanced features of information visualization like Treemaps (with theslice and dice and squarified methods), an adapted visualization of trees based on theSpacetree, a focus+context technique to lay Hyperbolic Trees, and a radial layout of trees with advanced animations (RGraph). Some [...]
Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery
I’ve been in drupal world again, which happens to use the jQuery JS libraries. Simon Willison has some great resources and links here: Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery The latest jQuery. jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.
Tweener
My favorite tweener engine for Flash – in both AS2 and 3. Simple, clean and fast. Docs are here: http://hosted.zeh.com.br/tweener/docs/en-us/