Thursday, January 17, 2008
Don’t get me wrong - I love the Web2.0 RIA always-connected lifeblogging world and digital audio recording and tweaking my linux window manager to maximum productivity.
But sometimes it’s nice to put down the iPod, sit down, put on a vinyl record, write an old-fashioned letter to a friend for their birthday, ride your bike […]
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
I finally updated my (mt) MediaTemple.net account from a [ss] shared-service to a [gs] grid-service lite account. What does this mean? It means that the server behind ihardlyknower.org is running on top of 2007 technology rather than 2003 technology. And I’ll be more likely to update ‘er more often.
After the upgrade I […]
It’s funny - I’ve been working on making interfaces and UI-heavy applications over 10 years - first ASCII-based games and then PEEKing and POKEing my way into non-text games. Then it was X11 development in the mid-90’s - building widget-based application UIs and a frame-based animation engine and at the same time making HyperCard […]
When you register at digg, it ask “Are you human? (Sorry, we have to ask)” at the bottom of the registration page. Looks like it assumes the answer is yes if you can parse alphanumeric pages in the image.
I gues the new Turing Test is the ability to parse an image and extract […]
We had some server problems at MyLaszlo.com so I moved the Clockblox to a more reliable server. You should update your clockblox links to point at http://www.openlaszlo.org/apps/clockblox.xml. The lead engineer on Google Modules will update the link posted on the Google Modules Homepage the next time they update the site. I’m not […]
the short story
Phew. After a month or so of hard work, we’re demoing an early alpha of Laszlo’s new DHTML backend at the etech conference in San Diego.
Check out our first example piece - a flickr-browsing photo application. I wrote the data-handling chunk of the app. Search for lzpix and look at […]
Folks at the US Department of Justice are interested in seeing what us li’l citizens are interested in searching […]
Friday, December 16, 2005
I spent a little time with the new Google Homepage API yesterday and looked into inserting apps written with Laszlo into Google’s Portal. I played with one of the simplest BlogBox the community has developed, ClockBlox.
I followed the API specs and quickly had a ClockBlox in my Google Homepage after creating little XML file […]
Thursday, December 1, 2005
I’m a little late at bringing attention to it, but folks at the company that I work launched Laszlo Mail, a demo version of Laszlo’s kick-ass web-mail client. Check it out. It’s quite an accomplishment and I’m difficult to really impress when it comes to stuff like this.
Sure it’s not as full-featured as […]
The tricky part of creating a class that displays a scaled reversed character is figuring out what to stretch & what to flip. Ultimately, the best solution was to add a single view wrapping the (resizing) text with a stretchy view that is flipped and positioned to take the flippage into account.
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