Monday 02 February 2009 | JavaScript, Experiments | I recently tried to recreate the famous plasma effect that was often used in the demo scene. Since I didn't know a lot about it and how to achieve it I had to do some research first. I thought I'd write a little bit about what the effect is and how I ended up implementing it. | Continue reading
Wednesday 28 January 2009 | Webdevelopment, CSS, Experiments | A couple of years ago I wrote a small post about what I call "panel layouts" and how to create them with CSS. I've used the method succesfully for a number of projects since then but there was always something that bothered me: to make it work, browsers had to be forced to render in the content box model using a forced quirks mode. Recently I started using another way, that eliminated this problem.
Tuesday 27 January 2009 | JavaScript | An email sent by a reader of my previous post about combinatorics renewed my interest in the subject. As I wrote in that particular post I didn't really understand why the code did what it did. It was actually the result of an almost evolutionary process of trial and error until I was confident it did what it should do.
arguments into an array...again
arguments into an array
This is the personal blog of Menno van Slooten, a web developer living in the Netherlands. | Continue reading
2009.01.28 | Thanks, anonymous reader, for pointing out that I had a PHP error in my atom feed.
2008.04.17 | Backbase released the 4.2 versions of their Ajax software. Read about it in the press release or their summary of what's new. You can download it through their development network. The homepage strangely enough still links to the old version.
2008.02.12 | This has to be one of the geekiest sites I've ever seen: let others rate your IDE color scheme.
2007.12.24 | The Dutch guild for front end programmers I wrote about earlier is now called Fronteers.