Archive of March 2008
Interface elements for jQuery - About Interface
everything scriptaculous has for jquery, but not quite as polished…
02:51 AM | 0 CommentsChyrp
a pretty kick-ass blogging/tumblelogging system in php/mysql. I’m switching from wordpress.
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From MIT Technology Review: a visualization of the blogosphere. Each tiny circle is a blog, lines are links. The ones around the edges are small blogging communities, the middle is a cluster of popular, highly interlinked political and gadget blogs. Finally, someone actually shows us the sphere…
09:49 PM | 0 CommentsWebKit HTML 5 SQL Storage Notes Demo
super cool demo of safari 3.1’s html 5 capabilities
12:45 PM | 0 CommentsSafari 3.1
I appreciate the improved JS engine – finally I don’t have to open up Camino for Zoho Writer and Wordpress posting. The local SQL interface is also pretty cool, although it remains to be seen how apps will use it or how it competes with Google Gears… The skewing effects in this sticky notes demo are pretty cool too. So now Safari is on the cutting edge of standards – I just wish it wouldn’t crash when I type in a website without a “.com” on the end…
11:49 AM | 0 CommentsRails Screencasts
these screencasts are the holy grail of web app framework design – they do complex things so fast! I watch them every now and then, and as I design my own framework and apps I get closer to actually understanding what’s happening behind the scenes…
09:36 AM | 0 Commentswent to a concert at the kimmel center yesterday: Terrell Stafford and then Wayne Shorter. Terrell and his combo did some of the best solos I had ever heard, and the audience went crazy. We got a CD and he signed it. Then Wayne Shorter came on and played this abstract piece for like an hour and then went off without saying anything. The audience loved it, but I don’t really get that kind of jazz.
09:30 AM | 0 CommentsComing Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine
personal computer users have continued to live under the tyranny of the mice, windows, icons and pull-down menus originally invented at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s and popularized by Apple and Microsoft in the next decade.
“I’ve wondered for a long time why the computer interface hasn’t changed from 20 years ago,” said Austin Shoemaker, a former Apple Computer software engineer and now chief technology officer of Cooliris. “People should think of a computer interface less as a tool and more as a extension of themselves or as extension of their mind.”
“The old paradigm is breaking down,” said Paul Mercer, senior director of software at Palm Inc. “It used to be that you needed to be a visionary and technologist like Michelangelo, but we’re turning that corner.”
I think we’ll see more of this.
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