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BMO LAUNCHES FINANCIAL TOOLS FOR CANADIAN FARMERS

BMO Bank of Montreal is reaching out to the Canadian agricultural community with new tools designed to meet the group's unique financial needs.

CANTO.JS: AN IMPROVED CANVAS API

Javascript author extraordinaire David Flanagan released Canto.js recently, a lightweight wrapper API for canvas, introduced here and documented at the top of the source code. Example: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: canto("canvas_id").moveTo(100,100).lineTo(200,200,100,200).closePath().stroke(); Notice three things: canto() returns an abstraction of the canvas - a "Canto" object. As with jQuery and similar libraries, there's method chaining; each method called on a Canto [...]

BMO OFFERS DEFERRALS FOR FLOOD-AFFECTED AGRICULTURAL BUSINESSES

BMO Bank of Montreal says it has launched a program for its commercial customers affected by the extensive damage from flooding on the Prairies earlier this summer.

YUI 3.2.0 PREVIEW RELEASE 1 – TOUCH EVENTS SUPPORT, TRANSITIONS AND BROWSER-SPECIFIC LOADING

Over at the the YUI blog the team just announced the preview release of YUI 3.2.0. YUI3 now has some interesting new features that the team wants you to try and tell them if they work out for you. The changes to the already very powerful library are quite ambitious: Touch event support for mobile interfaces [...]

CANVAS COLOR CYCLING

Interest in Canvas, as well as mobile apps, has led to a renaissance of old-school 8-bit graphics. Joe Huckaby of Effect Games has been playing around with color cycling, leading to some stunning effects. Anyone remember Color cycling from the 90s? This was a technology often used in 8-bit video games of the era, to [...]