On a whim I looked at http://www.ashkan.org/ today, hoping to see the site of my long-time friend Ashkan Soltani.
Well, ashkan.org wasn’t my friend’s site. It did give me a laugh though.
I’ve spent the last few weeks teaching a class called Visual and Interactive Design for the Web at UC Berkeley Extension. We talked […]
Monday, February 28, 2005
Introducing…. Photoblox integration!
Now I’ve got a Laszlo Photoblox on the right column.
Sweet.
I’ll look into integrating flickr & Photoblox too - dynamic Photobloxen!
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Introducing… flickr integration into the blog.
Saturday, February 26, 2005
blogger.ihardlyknower.org is born again - this time using wordpress 1.5, a standards complient open-source blogging tool that is easier to use than my old ‘movabletype’ blog solution.
And, by the way, commenting is now enabled again so I welcome the comments!
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
I went to Flax in San Francisco to leaf through their tremendous paper collection and bought a few beautiful pieces of paper designed & produced by eiei-o studio, a design shop in New York City. Beautiful paper!
I was so inspired by one of the designs that I started thinking about how to implement the […]
Friday, November 19, 2004
Man, joelonsoftware is full of good reads!
I’ve started keeping track of my projects using Joel’s suggested layout for spreadsheet-based tracking of development projects. I already feel more productive.
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
I read a piece today on usability of social interfaces on joelonsoftware.com — Whereas the goal of user interface design is to help the user succeed, the goal of social interface design is to help the society succeed, even if it means one user has to fail.
Joel talks about the design of social networking sites, […]
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
This morning I wired together the blog reader (Actually, it only reads my blog right now!), which was pretty easy once I groked how pointers inside of datapath worked.
Of course, you can point this app at your RSS 2.0 feed by changing the src attribute in the tag.
<canvas width=”850″ height=”550″>
<!– DATA –>
<dataset name=”rss” […]
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
I’ve been playing around with Laszlo’s open-source server in my spare time.
I whipped up the beginning of a data-driven RIA piece that consumes an RSS feed from my blog & displays titles of each blog item in a floating window.
I plan on creating RSS-readers using multiple different technologies & compare the length-of-code, ease-of-developent, and development […]
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
CHARACTER MATCHING -
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Match any one character
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Match any one character listed between the brackets
[^ ]
Match any one character not listed between the brackets
REPETITION OPERATORS
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Match any character one time, if it exists
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Match declared element multiple times, if it exists
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Match declared element one or more times
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