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Web Directions South ’08 Wrap Up 2

Just want to point out that Web Directions crew finalised work on podcasts and podcast of my talk is available along with my slides at Web Directions web site, so look and listen if you feel like this.

Pie Chart Madness

With release of Raphaël 0.5.6b building pie charts become very easy task. Before I need to draw path with a hole inside, but now I can really draw every sector of the pie, because Raphaël finally has arcTo method. It was a bit of challenge to create it because VML has absolutely different interface from SVG. Fortunately Erik Dahlström from Opera point me to right direction. After that it was very easy to connect the points and have a good picture. Take a look at the demo of this lovely pie chart.

San Francisco

This Saturday (11 of October) I am travelling to San Francisco, California for two weeks. If anyone want to catch up for a coffee or something, feel free to drop me a line, because I probably will be bored after hours. Hope to see you there.

My First Interview Ever

Interview I gave to Andrew Tetlaw from SitePoint at Web Directions South this year. Check it out: Dmitry Baranovskiy Talks about Raphaël.

Web Directions South ’08 Wrap Up

The amazing week of Web Directions is over. This year was significant for me, because I did a smooth move from listeners to speakers. My session was pretty good, without “Oh, shit!” moments and tricky questions. In fact questions were very different, yet very simple to answer. I’ve put together slides from the presentation on slideshare. All the demos are on Vimeo.

I should also mention that I won third prize at Web Jam 8 with my Raphaël presentation. You can watch video of it on Vimeo.

It also was nice to catch up with lots of people from virtual world of Internet. This was the first year when I am actually missed a lot of folks and didn’t chat with them. Sorry, I haven’t done it on purpose. The conference was too short and I can’t stay for after‐party. Looking forward for Web Directions South ’09. See you there!

Yet another demo

The one chart left for GitHub project and it has been done: languages chart. This one takes all the data from HTML table, so updating the table will change the chart and without JavaScript you still can see the table.

Raphaël Now Supports iPhone & iPod Touch

Well, to be honest, I haven’t done a thing. New 2.1 Software Update add SVG support for iPhone & iPod Touch, so apparently all the demos for Raphaël now work on “iTouch” products. That is what happens when instead of supporting products you support technology. Go Web Standards!

Another Play with Charting

This time I decide to go with punch chart from GitHub. This gives me good opportunity to find some bugs in my library and just have fun. Take a peek: Default look, vampire look and bright look.

GitHub Impact Chart

Recently I was amazed by idea of GitHub impact chart. It is so visually powerful. There are two problems: you have to click on rectangular areas instead of the shape and it doesn’t work in IE. I decided to rebuild this chart using Raphaël. Here the result: Raphaël driven GitHub Impact Chart. I don’t know what sort of scaling guys use, so I went with logarithmic scale. Play around and send me some feedback.

Raphaël 0.5.3

New version of Raphaël has been released yesterday. Among other improvements there is ability to get attributes of objects by writing object.attr("fill"). Also there are many fixes for IE.

Another thing: I moved project to GitHub to socialise it better. Hope it will help you in your daily coding job.

WebJam Ⅷ

I am pleased to announce that WebJam is live again. And pretty soon (25 September) it will rock again. I will definitely present my latest cool thing—Raphaël, so come along, have fun and vote for me.

SVG Tests

I found recently that W3C published very good written tests for SVG. Today I spent my lunch time to run across these tests in different browsers. Here results:

Basically Opera is the best so far. Safari doesn’t support filters. Firefox has problems with fonts and doesn’t support animation.