About Me
I'm Jeff Fal, and I'm an information architect and front-end developer working in Denver. I have been working on the Web since 1998 and am interested in learning at least a little about most Web technologies. I'm most experienced with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flex. Soft Werewolf is my place to play.
Category Archives: General
Combat systems and Dungeonism
If you’ve played my Dungeon Escape prototype, you may have encountered a skeleton. If you did, you may have attacked him. If you attacked him, you surely were witness to what I affectionately call my Pie Chart Combat System. I was much pleased when I invented it. It solved a problem I gave myself, which […]
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Adobe Edge experiment: Eddie the Brick
Adobe has seen the future — or at least a potential future — and they have prepared accordingly. If Flash meets an untimely end, Adobe Edge will rise to take its place. Even if Flash sticks around, Adobe Edge is a cool little tool that lets you add HTML/CSS/JS animation to a page in a […]
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More on server-side image resizing
This is a follow-up about my modest plugin to use Timthumb to grab dynamically resized images for WordPress. When we last checked in, my plugin called “ImgSize” was triggered whenever a thumbnail image was requested, and it provided a Timthumb-resized version. Shortly after this, I added the functionality to the plugin to do the same […]
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The Wired iPad App
Apparently, the new Wired Magazine iPad application is 500 megs because every visual element is just an image. That is, all the text, the animation, even the progress bars for the audio files are images or a series of images. Interface Lab is right to ask why they didn’t build this with HTML5?
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The Issues of iPhone Web Apps
My approach with Shop Shark was inspired by Google’s iPhone-friendly version of Buzz. With Buzz, Wave, and Voice, Google has taken to making iPhone-friendly web apps rather than native iPhone apps. I decided to follow their lead and have been working on Shop Shark as a web page that’s optimized for Mobile Safari and can […]
Tagged BaseJS, Google Buzz, Google Wave, iPhone, jQuery, Software Development 1 Comment
More Good News from MS: IE9
Things are finally starting to work out for modern web developers. First, IE8 became the world’s most-used browser, allowing us to begin ignoring the ancient IE6 in the way we’d always wanted to. Now Microsoft has announced Internet Explorer 9, with all kinds of HTML 5 support. Is it just me, or does Microsoft actually […]
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Terrible design concepts