It’s crazy to think that it was three years and five days ago that we released the first issue of "Thirteenth Parallel", an "e-zine" about web technologies. We only managed to run 7 issues before we found we didn’t have enough time to keep up with the monthly releases. However, even long after that we had big ideas about what we wanted to do with the project, and even started on several occasions to build a new site. Time is still a big problem for us, but I have finally gotten round to putting the articles back online in a simple, quick interface.
DHTML: Event Based Animation Demo
9 October 2004
At someone’s request I have set up an example demonstrating event based animations in DHTML. The "Toolkit" code is extracted from a Thirteenth Parallel project that never got completed, as such it is not all that stream lined or complete; however this example should illustrate a neat and quick way for developing complex animations.
To put the example into context: you could use an animation object and a 5-dimensional curve to animate an expanding panel while changing it’s colour (2d for the element’s y-position and height; 3d for the red, green and blue components of it’s colour). Also, because the animation object is not tied directly to any element or property, the on-animate event handlers could be used to animate anything from colours, widths and element positions, to frame sizes and window positions.
PHP graphing classes
14 June 2004
Not quite as interesting as my previous post on quitting my job, but nevertheless some people may be interested in this small collection of classes for drawing graphs in PHP.
New weblog up and running
30 May 2004
Well I’ve finally got round to setting up the logging system on the new site. There are still several things I need to do before I go off to Honduras in 3-weeks; for example RSS feeds, direct links, an archive, and I also need to port all the entries from the previous site, but at least it works now.
