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Archive for March, 2009

DemoCamp Edmonton 6 video – Part 1 of 5

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By Christy - March 19th, 2009

Demo #1: ShareEdmonton.ca by Mack Male

We at Smibs love DemoCamp and that’s why we captured it on video to share with you! What is DemoCamp you might ask?? It is an ad-hoc gathering of people with a mutual interest in sharing, collaborating and learning from each other in an open environment. There are DemoCamps [...]

Smibs on code: JavaScript lines

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By Forrest - March 13th, 2009

This is going to be another short post where I share some code, and much more importantly provide a demo to play with. There have been a number of times when our team has an idea that would require some creative drawing & lines in a browser. This is traditionally Flash territory. There has been [...]

[Inspired] Animated origami tells a corporate story

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By Peter Urban - March 9th, 2009

This video employs animated origami to tell the corporate story of asics , the sports shoe manufacturer, from its founders viewpoint. It seems like the founder himself is narrating it and the simple, almost black and white animation gives it a back to the basics kind of feel that underlines the message of focusing on [...]

The Social Networking Frontier: My Initial Thoughts on Twitter

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By Stephanie - March 6th, 2009

I want to talk about social networking. Yes, I know, everyone is talking about social networking—my interest is a little late in the game. But with platforms like Facebook and Twitter arguably in adolescent stages (neither have been around that long, when you think about it), it is difficult to say that these tools are [...]

Smibs on code: JavaScript windows

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By Forrest - March 4th, 2009

This is going to be a short fun post. It’s about a JavaScript library that I wrote a month ago. We wanted to see how easy it would be to develop multipurpose JavaScript windows to run inside the browser. The goal was to create a simple window model that could handle all the windowing functions. [...]