Category Archives: Brains

Canvas is a HTML5 element that allows for 2D shape and bitmap drawing and animation. I haven’t done anything with canvas yet (at least not anything useful), but I’ve been keeping an eye on it. Here are a couple of … Continue reading →

First up in this month’s Maker Smarter is a Google Tech Talk on OpenHatch. If you have ever wanted to get involved in open source software, OpenHatch is a great way to start. An open source volunteer finder, it makes … Continue reading →

First up in this month’s make smarter comes via the Google Geo Developers Blog and links to 9 different geo related presentations from Google I/O, including porting applications from the Google Maps API v2 to v3, tips and tricks for … Continue reading →

Last month Google unveiled its Font API, which makes custom font usage on your web page a snap. I talked about using @font-face before, and it isn’t terribly hard to use your own fonts that way. But doing it through … Continue reading →

Since this conference won’t be on the radar of most readers of this blog, I thought I’d wave its banner. The SouthEast LinuxFest is June 11-13 in Spartanburg, SC. I attended the inaugural SELF conference last year, and I was … Continue reading →