If you’ve ever played Advance Wars on the Game Boy Advance or Nintendo DS, then you’ll be instantly familiar with Weewar. Weewar is a web-based turn-based hex-based pixel-art war game what you play in your browser. Lots of fun and works quite well. Go check it out!
WDANZ Wellington Conference
At WDANZ‘s Wellington Conference last week, I had the privilege of talking to a group of my peers about how easy JavaScript has become since the DOM — there is still a lot of people in this industry out there who think JavaScript is in the too-hard basket, but if you think about it the right way, it really isn’t.
My slides for the talk I did (PDF, 180kb)
My slides are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. You are free to share and remix my work without limitation as long as you credit me, Brett Taylor, with a link to this blog post.
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I had a really good time at the WDANZ Conference. While there wasn’t a spectacular turn out, the quality of the speakers was second-to-none. I learned an absolutely epic amount of stuff about the business hemisphere of this industry, and met some of the most highly respected developers in New Zealand. I won’t be missing the next WDANZ conference in my city!
Parallax Backgrounds
I got thinking about how I could build a parallax background system for web pages, powered with JavaScript, so I did:
Done using simple CSS and a nice bit of JavaScript, but nothing too advanced, and without any libraries!
Enjoy it!
A Better, More Productive, Short URL
After talking with Chris Pirillo over Twitter, hearing him say how most short URL services don’t do good pretty semantic URLs, and thinking I could build a better solution, I did.
urlTea
A Web 2.0 look at the Short URL services. Light, simple interactivity. Intuitive design. And even an API! I’ll probably GPL it soon too…
Your thoughts?
An NZ Government Department is blogging and I had something to do with it!
NZAID was one of the many agencies that had a presence at the talk I did at CID‘s “Thinking Outside The Box” media workshop. I talked about blogging, podcasting, videocasting and wikis among other things.
I can’t help feeling a little responsible for NZAID starting up their new NZAID Field Blog! Amazing! Good on you all over there at NZAID for getting on the bandwagon! And on Blogspot to boot!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is this the first official New Zealand government department blog?
