Setting up BSQSimulator with CCV
I decided to compile the links and instructions for setting up BSQSimulator for my own future reference and to hopefully help others out. The directions are buried in the NUIGroup forums somewhere and can sometimes be difficult to find, with different versions requiring various MS Surface files. The files you’ll need: BSQSimulator2 (beta) direct download […]
November 10, 2013
Melbourne train map in CSS
About three weeks ago I was showing my team at work the london CSS tube map and I jokingly put forward the challenge for the first person to make the Melbourne map in CSS gets a dollar. But after looking at the map properly I realised that it actually wouldn’t be that hard – far […]
October 29, 2013
Inspiring Inspiration #12
A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design, mostly if not all from Vimeo…
September 20, 2013
A new blog design
PurpleSquirrels has gone responsive. I have just flicked the switch on the new PurpleSquirrels design. The new design – which I have been working on over the last few weeks – is now responsive which will make it much easier to read content on mobile devices as it adapts to smaller screens. I had been […]
September 2, 2013
Webcam to canvas or data URI with HTML5 and Javascript
This post has been sitting around unfinished since April so I thought I should finish it and get it out there. In this post I am going to show how you can capture an image from a webcam via JavaScript and convert it to a Data URI which can then be saved in a database […]
August 28, 2013
Creating HTML5 widgets for Adobe Captivate 6/7
I decided to write this post due to the frustration and lack of information out there on how to make HTML5 widgets for Adobe Captivate. There is almost no documentation on this and the only useful article I could find was riddled with mistakes. My approach may not be the best but this should get […]
August 27, 2013
Inspiring Inspiration #11
A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design, mostly if not all from Vimeo…
July 16, 2013
Windows ANE for native dialogs
My post on creating native alerts with Adobe AIR has proven to be quite popuplar so I decided to follow it up with something even better (at least for Windows apps). Recently I have been dabbling in a bit of C# for creating Windows Store apps as well as some C/C++ to try and figure […]
May 24, 2013
Hover shine effect with pure CSS
This is a simple example of a mouse-over shine effect I created using purely CSS. It uses a CSS generated element and CSS3 transitions to animate the effect. See the comments in the markup below for further explanation of how it works. Live demo Click Me The code Simple HTML markup: And the CSS:
April 24, 2013
Windows 8 start screen in HTML, CSS and Javascript
About 7 or 8 months ago I built a tile based launch page at work to launch learning modules which looked similar to the Windows 8 start screen. When I had spare time I kept building on and adding 3D animations to match it even closer to Windows 8. Then I kind of forgot about […]
April 21, 2013
Getting all element attribute values with jQuery
Here is a little snippet which I have found extremely useful especially when working with XML in Javascript. You can use the following to loop through all of an element’s attributes and store them in an object: So for example if we have the following XML node: After running the snippet above on the node […]
April 20, 2013
Converting video with FFmpeg and Adobe AIR
Something I have been wanting to do for a while now is build a video converter into my Module Builder to enable automatic conversion of video into the various web friendly formats but I could never find a way to do it. Over the weekend I discovered this tutorial on playing back any video in […]
February 4, 2013