Felt at loose ends this morning, so threw myself into Appleseed work, finishing a major phase of an interesting job that involves knocking PDFs around in novel ways. Emerged from a rare fugue just in time for supper ( Read more... )

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Nifty new Planbeast feature: Personalized Planbeast cards, little images saying what you're gonna do next on XBL, with links going to the event's detail page:


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They say that every Perl hacker's journeyman project is an HTML templating system. I'm learning about a variant, running into clients who each developed their own SQL abstraction modules before hiring me. Like every other SQL abstraction module, it really has just one purpose: an attempt to avoid having to embed one programming language (SQL) ( Read more... )

Call me Cory if you must, but I found the lead graf of this story about Apple's latest response to iPhone hackers very disappointing.“It’s a cat-and-mouse game,” said Steve Jobs. “We try to stay ahead. People will try to break in, and it’s our job to stop them breaking in.”
And by "people" he means "customers". I mean, by definition. The iPhone is a ( Read more... )

Hey folks. I didn't go to Origins; the Andys didn't wanna and the timing just didn't seem right. I am giving myself another day or three to decide if I wanna go to Gen Con. I don't have a really solid reason to go, since Volity is in such a weird transitional state. Networking is good, but until the web client's in full beta it all feels ( Read more... )

I wrote the most beautiful little Perl program for a client last week, the first small, complete program I've created since reading Perl Best Practices. It performs an analysis of potentially enormous amounts of company data, but it's wicked scalable. The client will be able to keep the program lodged in its cron schedule even if they later find ( Read more... )

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OK, I lied: one more obsessive Tic Tac Toe Testbench example. This one's totally worth it, though: an example of a Volity UI written in Flash and JavaScript.Yessiree. It looks and works much the same as the pure HTML example because it's a port. Code-wise, the only real difference is that there's a SWF file in the mix, and when the JavaScript ( Read more... )

Finally. Sarissa did indeed ease my XML suffering; thanks for the pointer, jaq! Lots of other hangups to overcome, but nothing that stumped me. Much was learned.

Here's the same boring old Tic Tac Toe demo which works in MSIE (and, afaik, everywhere else) now, and here's a zipfile of version 0.2. Everything's up to date in Subversion.

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