The history of JavaScript, as told by Douglas Crockford

I’ve always found Douglas Crockford to be such an interesting person, because of his intimate knowledge of JavaScript. From Wikipedia: …best known for his ongoing involvement in the development of the JavaScript language, for having popularized the data format JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), and for developing various JavaScript related tools such as JSLint and JSMin.[2]…

Recap of the WebGL talk at Microsoft Malvern

We had a great meeting for Philadelphia Game Works last night, at the Microsoft Malvern office. Group founder, Chris Gomez (@SpaceShot) is in the photo above, getting things started. We spoke about WebGL and how to get started with the open source engine, BabylonJS. The next meeting is on Wednesday the 30th, and we’ll be…

WinJS 3.0 is released today

Version 3.0 of Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS): http://bit.ly/XioUx9 The Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS) project is pleased to announce the general availability of its first release –WinJS 3.0 – since the open source project began at //BUILD 2014. The WinJS 3.0 release offers customers: Cross-browser/cross-platform support spanning the most popular desktop and mobile browsers, as…

Apache Cordova integrated in Visual Studio for Multi-Device Hybrid App development

I’ve been pushing HTML5 cross platform applications for some time now. I frequently give talks on how to use tools like Telerik’s App Builder, Adobe’s PhoneGap Cloud, and my personal favorite, Intel’s XDK. You can find my open sourced Cordova app here. Previously, Cordova was a cumbersome command line tool for building cross platform HTML5…

Super Rawr-Type Redux is released for the browser

Click here to play Super Rawr-Type Redux Source Code:  https://github.com/DaveVoyles/Super-Rawr-Type-Redux I’ve spent the last 3 months working on the follow up to my previous game, Super Rawr-Type. It was a simple side scrolling 2D shmup, which I wrote in JavaScript and also ported to Windows 8. One bug prevents me from getting it into the store,…