An experiment to show what HTML, JS and CSS can do is this drawing expeiment with a great potential. With it’s unique brush styles you can produce some great-looking charcoal pencil style sketches, amongst other things.
A quote from the creator (Mr. Doob):
The whole thing is quite modular so I can keep adding more brush styles whenever I get inspired. During the process I found out that, for some reason (apparently lack of hardware acceleration), Firefox and Opera do not support context.globalCompositeOperation = ‘darker’. This was on the HTML5 spec before but got removed. Just so you know what I’m talking about, this is like the “multiply” blending in Photoshop. Webkit does support it tho. I hope they put it back on the specs and all browsers support it.
You better try it out if your browser supports HTML 5. When done, you can save your image if you want to…
Source: ajaxian: Harmony: Canvas Drawing Tool
Leaving the obvious things behind, here are some extra-ordinary things that will help you:
- Hanselman Ultimate Tool List: Collecting utilities that can help with improving your efficiency while developing, without adding extra clutter, is a thing any developer could do easily. You’ll be amazed that you haven’t seen some of these brilliant tools before!
- Stack Overflow: Got stuck while programming? Wondering how something cool is made? Problems understanding the documentation of yet another library? Or do you have another programming-related problem and want fast-response? SO is the site you need!
- Git: A fast distributed version control system, free & open source. By adding an extra layer and a lot of improvements, Git is what SVN was supposed to be, just like SVN is what CVS was supposed to be. Be sure to watch this two-part screen cast to master it.
- Lists of Language & API references (A quick reference available comes out handy...)
- Java2s: Don't be deceived, check out the column at the left side!
- gotAPI: Has the ability to have favourite APIs at the top.
- All The Developer’s Books You Ever Wanted: Another site with APIs and specific aspects of programming, all books are in PDF format. The sites seems to lack some topics though, I probably compile up a list myself in a later post!
Be sure to check this list in the future, I will update this when I find something new or better!
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