SAPO Codebits 2009

Session Title

Working with Canvas

Abstract

Canvas is an HTML element that can be used to draw graphics via scripting (JavaScript).

Starting with a bit of history about this element, we'll go into the JavaScript API to work with it!

Want to check how to make a flashy animation just with JavaScript? Well please come in: into the future of browser based games, graphs and more!

Language

English

Speakers

Diogo Antunes

Diogo is a javascript developer @ SAPO. He started working on web development in 2002 with PHP but went through a wide variety of web technologies like ASP, ASP .NET, Java, JavaScript, Actionscript, MySQL and SQL Server. He can be defined as:

<script type="text/javascript">
    /*** Yeah, i know I don't work well in all environments, but well who doesn't ***/
    (function(){
        var Diogo = {
            human: true,
            gender: 'male',
            interests: [
                'programming',
                'tech',
                'life',
                'surf',
                'cycling',
                '... to long to name it'
            ],
            twitter: '@dicode',
            blog: 'http://dicode.org',
            email: 'diogoantunes@sapo.pt',
            geek: true
        }
        alert(Diogo.toSource());
    })();
</script>

Diogo claims that "JavaScript will rule the world!" (more)