Contents tagged with html5

• JavaScript, MVVM and Silverlight - Papa's Perspective

  Posted on November 08, 2011 by john

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  I’ve been writing again after what amounted to a 2+ year break. In the past 3 months I’ve written 10+ articles, many of which are published for Visual Studio Magazine in my new 1 page editorial column Papa’s Perspective. I’m enjoying the column so far as I get to write about a variety of technologies and burning hot topics, all from my view in the cheap seats.

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• 5 Minute Intro to HTML5 Canvas

  Posted on December 01, 2011 by john

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  This month’s Papa’s Perspective shows you how to use some of the fundamental aspects of the HTML5 canvas to draw. I go over some 101 level functions such as arc, beginPath, lineCap, lineJoin, lineTo, lineWidth, moveTo, stroke, strokeStyle and more. The source code you can download shows you how you can draw letters using these functions, and includes some scaling calculations to make it all a bit … more