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First Impressions Of Programming With Adobe AIR
Many of you will have, by now, installed the Adobe AIR runtime. Most probably it will be to run something like Twhirl. At this point many of you will be asking "what's Twhirl?" If I said it was a nice desktop application that makes using Twitter so much easier I hope you don't ask "what's Twitter?" :-) So, we're beginning to see these desktop applications coded using Adobe AIR, which stands for... [More]
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What I Did On My Vacation
First of all, a happy and prosperous 2010 to one and all. As with most vacations it's been a time partially filled with playing with technology and learning stuff there isn't (legitimate) time to learn about during the rest of the year. So, lest the rest of this post make you think I ONLY play with web stuff :-) I present to you a short list of REALLY good other things from the past few weeks:... [More]
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Rhino's
The very first computer game I ever played was called Rhino and it ran on a Commodore PET. The school had been lent one for a fortnight. (I don't know why as we didn't go on to buy any, instead getting a single RML 380Z.) Imagine a character-grid screen where the rhino's are represented by pi symbols that chase you as you try to move from A to B. It was written in BASIC and allowed from 1 to 10... [More]
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HTML5 Up and Running - A Review Of Sorts
William Gibson's "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed" applies very well to HTML5. It's even more true of CSS3. Despite that (or maybe because of it) it's a good time to dive into HTML5 - before everyone else does. So, a few months ago I bought, read and inwardly digested Mark Pilgrim's HTML5 Up and Running , published by O'Reilly in August 2010. I have a... [More]
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Many Ways To Skin A Cat - Modernising Bookmaster / Script
With apologies to cat keepers everywhere (of whom I'm one). Most of my reporting - when not graphical using GDDM - is created using Bookmaster. This looks in many ways like HTML and is another declarative markup language for text. It used to be what most IBM publications (including Redbooks) are written in. And customers bought Bookmaster (and DCF / Script/VS), embedding it into the... [More]
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Mashinations
Nowadays - actually thenadays :-) but more so nowadays - the value of a web page is related to how well structured it is. Well structured from a mashup programmer's point of view... As I often say you have to assume that people will want to take your web pages and mash them up in ways you never thought likely. If your web page is hard to navigate, extract material from, etc then people will use... [More]
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