Rob Gravelle

Formatting JavaScript Date Intervals into Years, Months, Weeks, and Days In my Calculating the Difference between Two Dates in JavaScript article, I presented a few ways of calculating the difference between two dates using some of JavaScript’s particular behaviors such as the roll over effect. I also described how to convert milliseconds into other intervals […]

Code and Deploy a Simple Angular 2 Application in Eclipse In the Developing Angular 2 Apps In Eclipse tutorial, we learned how to set up our Eclipse IDE for Angular 2 development. Now the time has come to put our environment to good use and code our first Angular 2 app. Although this first exercise […]

The Top HTML5 Canvas Game Engines The HTML5 canvas element opened up a whole new avenue for games programming. Using some JavaScript and 2D graphics, anybody could build games that run in any web browser. The use of sprites and tileable patterns, HTML5 games – as they became to be known – put them on […]

Top 3 Obsolete HTML5 Features It’s been over two years now since HTML5 became a W3C Recommendation (in October of 2014). Since then, browser vendors have been quick to adopt its new features just as developers were quick to take advantage of them. Those same developers may have to revisit their work, as the W3C […]

Top HTML5 Features: Simplified Script Tags, Autofocus, and More A couple of years after the launch of HTML5, we went back and reflected on how HTML5 has changed the way we code and present web content. In the first Top HTML5 Features article, we reviewed the original goals of the HTML5 specification as well as […]

Revolutionary HTML5 Online Website Generation Tools: SILEX, Weebly, and Wix When I first embarked on my web development career, over fifteen years ago, the two main website building tools were Adobe Dreamweaver and MS Frontpage. Dreamweaver is still available, but it has moved to the Cloud. Frontpage was discontinued way back in 2003. The era […]

Developing Angular 2 Apps In Eclipse Now that Google has released version 2 of their popular front-end Web application development framework, there has never been a better time to start learning how to use it. Along with many new features, Angular 2 incorporates many changes that developers have been asking for. With all this going […]

In the What is SEO and Why it’s Important article, we learned about SEO’s (Search Engine Optimization) role in search engine rankings, where it fits into Internet Marketing, as well as how SEO benefits you as the owner of a website. If that article achieved its goal of instilling the value of spending some time […]

Working with Large JSON Data Sets in Android In my recent Working with Android’s In-memory JSONObject article, I described how to utilize Android’s excellent JSONObject and JSONArray classes to load a JSON data set into memory and work with its contents. While they can easily manage small feeds, things get a little more complicated when […]

Reference External Resources from your Bookmarklets Since I first wrote about Bookmarklets a while back, my appreciation of their usefulness has only grown. Case in point, in my Automate Form Submissions using Bookmarklets article, I showed how they could be utilized to execute multiple form submissions, all without any user intervention. More recently, I was […]

HTML6 Proposals Wishlist Earlier this year, people started getting excited about some of the proposals for HTML6 that were being tossed around. While still far from becoming a reality, the W3C has been busy gathering ideas on their HTML/next page. Today’s article will highlight some of the more interesting ones. Just bear in mind that […]

Top HTML5 Features: DOCTYPE, FIGURE, and Form Enhancements It’s been a couple of years now since HTML5 was released as a stable W3C Recommendation, in October of 2014, and we now have the opportunity to look back and reflect on how HTML5 has changed the way we code and present web content. Today’s article presents […]