Coding, visualization and graphics (ordering may vary)
The last June the latest version of D3 library saw the light. This was a major release as a big chunk of the D3 API was changed, the main consequence of this being that probably your old D3 charts pre D3 v4 will need some refactoring.The good news is that almost all the big changes …
As part of my ongoing effort to improve code.svg shipped-in libraries I came across Javascript-Particle-Library, a JavaScript library to generate and display particles system in real-time on the browser.Its demo page looks very interesting as the library provides Emitter, Field and Filter classes to define particles and customize the system’s behavior. The whole simulation runs …
After few months a new version of Wp-D3 has been released!It’s not a big update, no astonishing new features being added, but it remarks the consistency on time and the commitment to keep updating this plugin as needed, specially now that the plugin has achieved +1000 active installs (!) and more than 6k downloads (!).I …
I’ve been tracking the Processing project for some years, but not until now I had decided to give it a try. The default IDE that is shipped with the standard installation is quite complete but if you are in the code world you may feel you need something more complex.Good news is that all the …
NodeRed is a visual editor for the Internet of Things that allows to create a flow of actions using just a set of graphical nodes.It’s main attractive is that it leverages the tricky, technical JavaScript side by means of a graphical interface while leaving enough room for coding if you need to. Among all the …
Yes, all of a sudden a new release of Wp-D3 sees the light!.The new version v2.2 includes the following changes: A Preview button to visualize the chart in the Chart Manager without having to save it and load the preview web. The D3 library has been update to version 3.5.5 The compatibility with WordPress 4.1 …
A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine mentioned Trello as a valid alternative to the classical approach to task organization, specially suitable for those personal projects that keep growing with tasks and issues written down on papers scattered around the desk. In the last few years many products have raised as valid personal …
Believe it or not javascript has come to stay for a while, and developing for it may cause some troubles for those of us who are used to more “traditional” languages.It is always interesting to see how it is able to shot you in the foot when you assume it behaves the way others languages …
There is a new version of Wp-D3 !Sooner than expected this version (v.2.1.2) has been released basically to address the colliding charts issue mentioned in the forum that made some charts overlap each other at the end of the page.To keep it short, the problem has been resolved defining a javascript namespace for each of …
It’s been a while since my last update to Wp-D3 plugin but it’s not dead!.The last Wp-D3 v2.1 implements a new improvement that will help a lot of people that have requested support regarding the duplicated charts issues.The Wp-D3 plugin now allows the definition of a constant chart id to generate such value dynamically without …