Tech blog
Since I have my own VPS I’m constantly trying out new stuff. After messing around with nodejs I have my own little script (just over 100 lines) that connects to Twitter using their streaming API, get’s all tweets that contain certain words, do a minimal amount of parsing and store it all in a SQL database.
Lately I’ve been reading a book about data visualization. The book goes into the thought process of visualizing data for humans and also talks a lot about visual coding. All code in the book is Processing code, an extremely easy and fast way to visualize.
When you’re working with javascript you need to take the execution speed into account since its all being processed on the client. There are lots of best practices when it comes to working with websites. You should for example always minify and concatenate your scripts, and make good use of closures and avoid polluting the global scope.
We’re building more and more javascript rich websites. The more interactive it gets, the less it looks like a website at all. But we can’t ever forget were still building websites and we need to preserve a web based on navigating through links.
When building a custom WordPress based website for a client I needed to include AJAX based page transitions into the website. In this video I’ll explain a little about how I did it.