Today I have started playing with HTML5 Audio and Canvas. I was able to create a small JavaScript library in a few hours from scratch. Which is currently support playing audio using HTML5 audio (mp3 or ogg, depends on the browser) and also has a very simple “game loop”. Finally I have added some unit tests (using QUnit) and a basic example where my lib is responsible for randomly moving a couple of rectangles on a canvas while playing a background music. I will clean up the code and will push to GitHub, soon (in the meantime it is available in my Dropbox public folder).

DotCloud CLI setup for Windows (including the latest version 0.4.0) is available at https://github.com/speier/DotCloudWin/downloads

Source code is also available at https://github.com/speier/DotCloudWin

Just pushed my simple T4 helper solution:
https://github.com/speier/KnockoutHelper

Very basic, subject to change but working. ;)

A few weeks ago I have wrote a post about how to use DotCloud on Windows. Here is a much simpler solution: 

1. Install Python and Setuptools
2. Install DotCloud with the following command: easy_install dotcloud
3. Create a new batch file, named "dotcloud.cmd" and paste this content into it

Now you can execute commands, like: dotcloud create myapp

Enjoy! ;)

Updated: DotCloud for Windows

DotCloud is a totally awesome 2nd gen PaaS (Platform as a Service) supporting multiple components. They have a command line tool written in Python to acces their services (create, deploy, push, etc.), but they actually all run Linux or OS X and they don't have a Windows friendly installer yet... So how to use it on Windows?

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Today I have started working on a small web application to tryout MongoDB. I will implement a simple classified ads listing web site using ASP.NET MVC 2 (with lean HTML5 template), NoRM (for…

Today I have started working on a small web application to tryout MongoDB. I will implement a simple classified ads listing web site using ASP.NET MVC 2 (with lean HTML5 template), NoRM (for MongoDB) and Castle Windsor for my IoC and DI needs.

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As I wrote in my previous post at this thime I am working/thinking on how to use HTML5 custom data attributes to bind data to ASP.NET MVC views. First I thought I create a simple view engine, just…

As I wrote in my previous post at this thime I am working/thinking on how to use HTML5 custom data attributes to bind data to ASP.NET MVC views. First I thought I create a simple view engine, just to tryout how it works and how can I do this stuff.

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A couple of days ago I’ve started thinking about a very simple ASP.NET MVC view engine. The reason is simple: I like to know how it works and how can I implement a basic view engine. I have…