Projects
This page serves as an overview of the projects I’ve started or have participated in. The layout is a bit boring, will fix eventually.
Aves Engine (2010)
The Aves Engine was going to be the first commercial pluginless browser game engine. It solved complex tasks such as isometry and sprite animating and delivered cross-platform on desktop and mobile devices. First announced at the jQuery conference 2010 in San Fransciso, our first, and later our second demo videos soon made the round across several media channels, including TechCrunch, Twitter and local newspapers. Later on, Aves technology was sold to Zynga in a talent acquisition.
jQuery UI
jQuery UI is a part of the jQuery project. It is the official user interface library for jQuery that includes skinnable widgets, utilities and effects in a convenient package. I have started working on it in early 2007, and the first public release happened on September 17th, 2007 (see ). Today, jQuery UI is used by more than 10% across the top 100.000 websites of the web (see http://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery-UI).
jQuery
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. During my time in the jQuery team, I was creating numerous extensions and plugins that eventually made it into the core (i.e. the dimensions plugin).
Library Detector
Firefox plugin that detects what javascript libraries are being used on the current page and displays the result as icons with detailed tooltips in the statusbar. Started as a silly side project as I needed it myself, found that a lot of people found it useful to my surprise. More information here, download here: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/10083 (Source).
Transformie
Transformie is a javascript plugin that comes in less than 5k that you embed into web pages and that brings you CSS Transforms by mapping the native IE Filter API to CSS transitions as proposed by Webkit. No seriously – with it, you can have CSS transforms on 95% market share browsers. Blog post and Source/Download.