I put together a little demo to show how to setup a canvas with a corresponding minimap that displays an overview of the contents of the canvas. You can use the mousewheel on either the main canvas or the minimap to zoom in and out. You can also drag either the image or the minimap… Read More »
I had a question in the comments for the treemap label wrapping post about how to go about truncating the labels within the d3 Circle Pack example from Mike Bostock. Here is what I came up with. For the sake of brevity, I used the SVG text element so you get truncation but not wrapping.… Read More »
One d3 visualization I’ve been refining for a while now uses a flowing tree layout. I wanted to have a structure similar to the standard d3 tree layout which would position consistently-sized leaf nodes (children) in a recursively flowing (wrapping) arrangement. I also wanted to take a stab at building this layout as a library… Read More »
I received a comment asking how to truncate labels in my treemap example. Here is a quick example showing how I handled it on a recent project. I am sure there are other ways to do this and if anyone has a better alternative, please detail it in the comments. Basically, when using labels in… Read More »
I have been a huge fan of JetBrain’s IntelliJ IDEA development tool for nearly a decade. I use it almost daily and I love that the makers of this tool have included a path for users to add functionality to the IDE on their own using custom plugins. One feature that I have missed is… Read More »
The D3 library is really a great way to create data visualizations in HTML5. I absolutely love it and its treemap is especially powerful. I wanted to create a treemap that showed grouping headers like the JIT version that has been around for a while, but it took a little more work to get D3… Read More »
When I ported PureMVC over to Dojo I could not pass up the chance to port over the the Pipes utility as well. I initially created a Dojo-flavored version, but since the main Javascript distribution of PureMVC is framework independent, I figured that Pipes should be as well. For those who are unfamiliar with Pipes,… Read More »
Having moved on from Flex to Javascript more than a year ago, I’ve continually run into the problem of trying to find frameworks to support large-scale Javascript applications that are truly robust and scalable. It is harder than I thought, and that is at least partially due to the inherently fast-and-loose nature of Javascript. In… Read More »