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July 20, 2011

Seattle JS @ DC

Design Commission is proud to be serving as host to the recently refreshed Seattle JS Meetup group.  Meeting every second Thursday of the month, this eclectic gathering of geeks explores the practical and creative possibilities of this simple but powerful little programming language. Come stop by for some donuts and beer, learn more about the language [...]

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September 1, 2010

Circle Grow

About a month ago I heard tell of a JavaScript Demoscene contest called JS1k. For those who haven’t heard of the Demoscene, it’s basically a sort of programming art-form that allows a programmer (or team of programmers) to show off their hacking skills. Originally due to the storage and processing limitations in the past, demo [...]

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February 24, 2009

A Better Bus Tracker

During one of our brainstorming sessions for our upcoming You Are Here opening, I remembered once stumbling onto a GPS data feed for the Seattle metro transit system.  The metro website has a bus tracker that runs in a java applet from 1999 (that’s like 100 in internet years!),  so I grabbed a modest maps [...]

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December 22, 2008

Flex Builder 3 & Aptana as Uber-Web-Development IDE

NERD ALERT: This post is for folks that write ActionScript 3 and develop websites.  If this isn’t you, click here instead. Every web developer has their favorite IDE, and after a few years of skipping around I’ve finally settled on Adobe’s Flex Builder as a host for the Aptana plugin. This is an unusual setup—Flex [...]

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