In this article, we will focus on the power of CSS as a descriptive language, current template system approach and their problems with modularity and extensibility, and try to mix both features from the concept to a concrete implementation.



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This video shows how to run different instances of Play framework server in the most Linux friendly way: using daemons. Example with ArchLinux, using yaourt, the playframework AUR package and nginx.

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Demo

Flexible Nav is a small jQuery library which add a smart navigation bar on the right of the page. It improves a web page navigation and helps to visualize different sections of a document, an article,.. any web page.

Nav links are distributed proportionally to the page sections. See how your scrollbar “weds” these links :)

Flexible Nav is both a library and a bookmarklet which can be used easily in any website.

The bookmarklet demonstrate the hackability of the web by using the semantic of web headings (h1, h2, h3, ..).

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see also Same Game Gravity Technical Notes.

same.greweb.fr


Same Game Gravity is today available on iPad, iPhone, Android, Web, Facebook Apps and Chrome Web Store.

Un principe simple remis au goût du jour. Trés bon!! (bobylito)

Great twist (excuse the pun) on the “same” game! (mrspeaker)

A fresh spin on Same Game the use of gravity is pretty clever. (erwan)

Same Game Gravity is a mind-bending ball removal puzzle game where you try to remove all of the balls from the board. Balls can only be removed when they are grouped with more balls of the same color. The balls are influenced by gravity. On mobile, you change gravity by rotating your mobile, on desktop you have arrows.

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see also Same Game Gravity presentation.

2 years ago, I started to developed the Same Game as an HTML Canvas experiment. I’ve enjoyed developing this game, mostly because playing with HTML5 Canvas is so easy. Recently I’ve seen a nice increase in the user base (now around 250 visitors a day) – despite it being perhaps the simplest games I’ve ever developed. Simplicity is good, but my increase in users is thanks to the power of HTML5: The Same Game is available for 6 different platforms. And I can pump out new builds for them all in around 15 minutes. Here’s how…

It’s often the simplest games which work. Too much complexity is not good.



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In this article, we will explain why we’d choose web technologies to make applications and introduce WebAppBuilder, a tool to easily build different instances of an application. We’ll examine the Same Game Gravity as an example.

Using web to develop mobile applications is very productive and web technologies are rich.

Fork WebAppBuilder on Github.

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Zenexity ouvrait ses portes hier soir avec différentes présentations sur le thème Javascript et Web contre “Java Entreprise Edition” (JEE).

Annoncé début décembre sur Zengularity, 4 présentations se sont succédées.

Cet article a pour but de transcrire et de résumer cet évènement avec un profil de chaque intervenant.

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Voici mon second podcast vidéo sur zengularity.com, reprenant la démo d’un précédent article.

Les transitions CSS3 permettent d’éviter l’utilisation du Flash ou de librairies d’animations Javascript. C’est une alternative performante car elle utilise le moteur de rendu natif du navigateur. De plus, cette solution simple et standard offre une dégradation intéressante sur les navigateurs plus anciens.

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Mon premier podcast vidéo sur Zengularity.com :

Web Workers est une technologie du HTML5 qui permet d’exécuter des scripts en arrière-plan en préservant la stabilité du navigateur. Un exemple sur la recherche des nombres premiers parmi une liste de nombres illustre l’intérêt des Web Workers pour le multi-tâche.


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The Singularity [ˌsɪŋgjʊˈlærɪtɪ]

When humans create smarter-than-human intelligence capable of creating ever smarter “minds”, it will trigger a recursive intelligence explosion and an acceleration of technological progress that will qualitatively change the future.

http://www.zengularity.com/ est sorti !

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