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Lou Mauget

Lou Mauget has been writing code since 1961. He coded in ILLIAC I machine language before most of computing's defining moments had occurred. Born in 1942, he has worked across several layers of the stack. Since 2020, he continues to focus on React and TypeScript front-end development, bringing six decades of perspective to modern development.

Fabric.JS

Reinforcing The HTML5 Canvas With Fabric.js

Lou Mauget Articles, CSS & HTML, Design, Development Technologies & Tools Leave a Comment

Attention: This article was published over 10 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.This world is but a canvas to our imagination. -Henry David Thoreau Dynamic Web Graphics The past… Applets In the previous millennium, HTML markup …

JavaScript Promises Are Cool

Lou Mauget Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript 4 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.โ€œAnd when I promise something, I never ever break that promise. Never.โ€ โ€• Rapunzel Many languages have libraries of interesting schemes called promises, deferreds, …

MongoDB Geo-Spatial Mobile Demo

Lou Mauget Articles, Databases, Mobile, MongoDB 2 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Mongo: noun (pl mongo or mongos) โ€“ a monetary unit of Mongolia. Equal to one hundredth of a tugrik. Origin from Mongolian โ€œsilverโ€ Iโ€™ve …

Mapping Shortest Routes Using a Graph Database

Lou Mauget Articles, Databases, Development Technologies & Tools, Java 12 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.We often model interconnected data by cramming it in and out of table structures. Why donโ€™t we simply model interconnected data as โ€ฆ interconnected …

A Mobile Application Served From CouchDB

Lou Mauget Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Mobile, Tutorial 6 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.โ€œA DBMS as an application server? Is it Lotus Notes?โ€ CouchDB CouchDB seemed odd to me in 2009 because it had โ€ฆ no SQL! …