I was lucky enough to be able to go to this years Front End Design Conference in St. Petersburg. It was a great well-produced low key event and I highly recommend it to anyone in the area or willing to take a trip.

I wanted to write down my notes and thoughts on the experience, so here we go:

• javascript
• conference
• front end design conference

Here are the slides for a talk I gave for yesterday's Tech Time Conference titled "Code This, Not That: Javascript and JQuery Edition". These slides don't completely stand alone, however the event was recorded so soon I can post the video. I'd also like to elaborate this talk to a blog post of it's own, but until then you can check out the slides.

• javascript
• jquery
• talks
• presentations
• slides
• tech time 2013

So you want to utilize the revealing module pattern in a custom node.js module? It's not hard but it wasn't immediately obvious to me, so here's how you do it.

Every node.js module is just a simple javascript file that contains a special exports variable. That exports variable is what gets exposed to the class that requires your module.

For example, take a custom module mymodule.js:

exports.animal = 'kitties';

Here's how you'd use it:

var myModule = require('./mymodule.js');

console.log(myModule.animal); // prints 'kitties'

• node.js
• javascript
• revealing module pattern

I've been playing with the fantastic three.js library lately, and for a project I needed a way to determine where an object in 3D space was on the page in 2D. I've gotten something working after reading through articles, documentation and commentary on three.js' github issues page.

In the example below I have a div (the red circle) that's being absolutely positioned on top of where I've determined the sphere to be.

• WebGL
• three.js
• 3D
• javascript