CAMDUG Node Event, SunCalc, Bubbles
CAMDUG Summer of Open Source
Like an idiot I forgot to post this sooner (I’ve been snowed under by cool JavaScript links lately!) The CAMDUG Summer of Open Source is tomorrow (27th August) in Cambridge UK, and has a Node open day, with speakers and coding sessions. Oleg Podsechin will be speaking, and he also recently gave a talk entitled The Future of Server-Side JavaScript at FrOSCon.
SunCalc
SunCalc (GitHub: mourner / suncalc, License: BSD) by Vladimir Agafonkin is a small library for calculating the Sun’s position, and sunlight phases.
This example will fetch the sunlight times for London:
var times = SunCalc.getTimes(new Date(), 51.5, -0.1);
It’ll also fetch the position of the Sun, returning the azimuth and altitude:
var sunrisePos = SunCalc.getSunPosition(times.sunrise, 51.5, -0.1);
It’s a nicely designed library with a lot of configuration options (detailed in the README).
BubblesJS
BubblesJS by Pantelis Kalogiros can be used to manage captions and subtitles for HTML5 videos. It’ll even read .srt files:
var bubbles = new Bubbles.video('video-srt');
bubbles.subtitles(false, {
'English': {
language: 'English',
file: 'subs/english.srt'
},
'Greek': {
language: 'Greek',
file: 'subs/greek.srt'
}
});
The way it works is actually fairly simple. Progress can be tracked using element.currentTime, and it includes a built-in srt parser. The first parameter to subtitles is the type of parser, false makes it use the built-in one but remote parsers can also be used.
The author notes there isn’t currently a standard usable way of managing HTML5 subtitles, and he said he’s going to put the source on GitHub soon too.
