Birdwave is a heavily data-driven app, which makes its UI an excellent candidate to structure into Om components. In this article, we'll add a new component to the app, and try to understand some of its inner workings in the process.
Read more →For a dynamic client-side application, using CSS alone to show and hide components for different screen sizes isn't enough. Even when hidden, components may be listening for application state and re-rendering themselves or taking up resources for no visible effect, giving the perception of a laggy app. They may be making unnecessary AJAX requests to the server.
Read more →I'm happy to announce a side project I've been working on with some of my colleagues here at Neo: Birdwave. An app to visualize bird migrations across the US region, Birdwave falls at the intersection of several different personal and professional interests for me.
Read more →Flickr is an amazing resource for finding images to use in your applications, due to how well they manage licenses for their user-submitted content. These licenses are exposed in the Flickr API, making it easy to limit your search to, for example, only images with a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.
Read more →Choropleths are a great way to get a really clear depiction of how a statistic varies by location. I'd like to share my experience from a project that we're not quite ready to announce yet.
In our case, the statistic in question is the frequency of sightings for a given species of bird. The idea is to be able to see which
Read more →