Anyone looking for Mac dev (Cocoa) work in the Boston area (Woburn), drop me a line.
It’s not with me, which has to be a positive.
Category Archives: Tech Talk
Some potentially life-threateningly boring discussion.
Mark Bernstein: NeoVictorian 1: Civilization and its Discontents
Interesting first shot by Mark Bernstein, with promises for more:
Mark Bernstein: NeoVictorian 1: Civilization and its Discontents
Why do I say we are unhappy?
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• Our scientific conferences are filled with papers that focus on incremental improvements observed when asking unskilled laborers (whom we call “novices”) to perform office chores. We call this “usability”.
• Scholars interested in arts and humanities computing are strangely obsessed with box office and weirdly uninterested in making software, or making meaning.
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I’m looking forward to more…
NaNoWriMo Technology Suggestions
Took a look at this thread over on the geared up NaNoWriMo.org site and figured I’d write down my favorite tech suggestions.
It’s basically culling my tools from this post, as well as a few of the general tools from this post:
Writer.app for drafting, Tinderbox and OmniOutliner for thought organization and outlining, Mellel for general word processor formatting when I’m at that stage of the process.
Not that I’ll be doing much during November other than being spit up on, not sleeping, and changing nappies.
The Code Behind the New Mobile Horoscopes
Not a single, solitary person has asked, but here it is, anyway. The technology behind the mobile horoscopes is a combo of our lovely SMHoroscopesWriter, a custom Cocoa app the Q.I. Software team worked on, which now exports two different kinds of HTML and an XML format for general consumption (you, too, can integrate horoscopes into your app!).
But the real interesting stuff comes from iUI, which you can grab from here. Really, really nice JS and CSS library… it makes it really easy to make your app look nice for the good old iPhone…
Stephen Colbert gets an iPhone
Stephen Colbert gets an iPhone, warns of impending iEye release – Engadget:
Although it’s still not clear if Stephen Colbert was forced to actually shell out some hard-earned cash in order to procure his very own iPhone, one thing is certain: he finally owns one.
Very funny… the video clip’s worth watching.
Not much going on at San Fran’s Apple Store – Engadget
Not much going on at San Fran’s Apple Store – Engadget
For whatever reason, we were expecting more (way more) people and generally fewer clowns.
This is possibly the most disheartening news I’ve heard today. I was hoping for more clowns, too. Maybe the Boston area stores will represent those of us with a desire to see clowns in line better.
Getting Started with the JavaFX Script Language(for Swing Programmers)
openjfx: Getting Started with the JavaFX Script Language(for Swing Programmers)
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Below is a summary of the JavaFX Border classes and the Swing borders to which they correspond:
Oh dear God in Heaven. Now, when someone pointed out this new language from the Java team, I thought, “Oh man. Rich content market. Taking on AJAX, Flash, and Silverlight. Yay.”
Being the curious sort, and since this is usually my job, to check out the latest and greatest (well, okay, maybe not in the job specs, but it’s something I do for my job, anyway), I downloaded it. Figured I’d skim the tutorial. I glanced through the installation article with NetBeans, and clicked on the tutorial link at the bottom, which led me to the article above.
Holy Pete and all the Angels on High… what are they thinking? A rich media framework/language built on SWING? Argh.
Oh wow. And it gets better. I just downloaded the demos, without thinking (it must have been the shock of an “easy-to-use rich media environment” using Swing as it’s primary interface programming mechanism). After a couple minutes downloading over a pretty reasonable connection we have…:
Embed that.