Archive | April, 2012

Google+ Hangout: the perfect virtual meeting tool

For the past few weeks, we’ve been experimenting with Google+ Hangout as a virtual meeting place. The change was prompted by the addition of a new member to our development team who is geographically distant from my partner and I. I’m not sure if Google had intended to create the perfect virtual business meeting environment, [...]

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KineticJS-Ext added to the portfolio

We’ve officially added KineticJS-Ext to our studio portfolio. KineticJS-Ext is a rendering engine built around the multiple canvas layers paradigm. It’s based on Eric Rowell’s KineticJS engine. Please visit our KineticJS-Ext portfolio page for more information.

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Dynamically instantiate Javascript classes with construction arguments

Recently, I needed the ability to dynamically instantiate Javascript classes with custom construction arguments. A quick search on the web didn't yield any good answers. Thus, this is my attempt to address the knowledge gap. Here's the function: /* * Dynamically instantiate a class. Additional arguments are * passed to the class constructor * * [...]
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Forget building a company – build products

It's been 6 months since my partner and I launched Wappworks Studio and now seems like a perfect time to take a good and hard look back at the mistakes made and the lessons learnt. Let me start by stating that we've made lots of mistakes. Some  were caused by industry developments such as the [...]
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