Comfortably Coding Blog of Mathew Rodley

Todays post is about creating a mirrored effect on images appearing on a website. Looking around, there are already a few people who have attempted to do this, however, I would like to tackle the problem myself and provide an in depth post about how to actually do it. At the end of this post we should have a fully functioning jQuery plugin which allows us to mirror images. We can approach this two ways, using Canvas or SVG. I have opted to use Canvas, however I did create a neat SVG file which is able to mirror arbitrary images, passed in by a query parameter. The first part if this post will address creating a reflection of an image. Once we have the ability to do this, we can roll it into a jQuery plugin to provide reflections for images which we specify. Read the rest of this entry »

Reading Steve's blog today I saw his post on accessing the current functions name in python. This could end up being a useful thing to know if you are playing with some unfamiliar code and need this sort of information, or are doing something nasty. So without anymore fuss here's how to do the same thing in Ruby and JavaScript! Read the rest of this entry »