Archive of June 2008
Chyrp 2.0
It came out yesterday, and I installed it today. I know it’s not any different on the surface, but I’ve been following along and the backend is vastly better, and the admin UI has been redone. I liked the old one better. This one has too much empty space, and the indistinct tabs and “Chyrp loves you” at the bottom vaguely annoy me.
Ah well. I’ve been waiting for this release before I start writing modules and maybe porting that old brown skin I used to use on WordPress, and now I can start.
05:53 PM | 0 CommentsLaptop!
It’s back!
Yesterday we got an email from the OLPC people saying it was coming, and today when I came home the box was sitting outside the front door! Hurrah!
03:17 PM | 0 CommentsHey Bulldog/The Beatles
Who knew there was a video of them recording it!? Good song.
07:55 PM | 0 CommentshaXe
a “multiplatform language” that can be compiled into javascript, flash movies, php files, and more. Have to read up on this a bit.
04:14 PM | 0 CommentsIt strikes me that we’ve recently witnessed the birth of 4 potentially game-changing software platforms:
- iPhone platform – a fully grown mobile OS
- Android – a more open, more Googly fully grown mobile OS
- Sugar – A rethought OS; Linux-based and pythonic FTW!
- AppEngine – Google power for the webapp-developing masses.
The iPhone platform has shown the coolest results so far – put an accelerometer, touchscreen, GPS receiver, and a full-stack OS in one box, and the possibilities just start flying out! I’m sure Android isn’t far behind, and will be much more open, which is good. Sugar’s Journal had me from the beginning. And I’m still coming to grips with what AppEngine will let me, as a smalltime developer, do…
These are heady times for technologists.
03:47 PM | 0 CommentsAnalogizer
It’s another tiny python/xmlrpc script for braindump.
Make a page called “apple” with “color: red” and a page called “banana” with “color: yellow”, then run the analogizer:
python analogizer.py
> apple
is to
> red
as
> banana
is to
(The > ’s are typed by the user) And it prints out:
> yellow
Hurrah!
It uses BQL’s ‘between’ method to find the relationship between the first two items (“color”), then gets that property or backlink for the third.
01:08 PM | 0 CommentsThis is Big Buck Bunny, another open movie from the Blender people. The animation isn’t quite up to my Pixar-set standards, but the fur, grass and water is top-notch.
PS. I like how the vimeo player’s controls fade out completely…
05:56 PM | 0 Comments