Archive for May, 2006
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Last night's DemoCamp 6 was a little bumpier than usual: the organizer, David Crow, was unwell, so Joey and Jay stepped in as MCs, and then the A/V system went HAL on us. Nevertheless, the demos were very entertaining:
Ross Rader of TUCOWS presented Skydasher, their new AJAX-y home page ...
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
This idea keeps coming around --- I first worked on a system to do something like this (in 3D!) almost ten years ago. Not sure what the value is, but it sure is pretty...
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006
This article on the never-ending cycle of thin and thick clients is a good sobering-up amidst the current excitement over AJAX.
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Saturday, May 27th, 2006
This post, by Eric Sink, is a good summary of ideas I didn't encounter until I started working with the Select Access team way back when the bubble was young. (The last bubble, that is, not the impending Web 2.0 blowout.)
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
The term "mashup" is sooooo Web 2.0 *yawn*, but ProgrammableWeb's "Best New Mashups" has some interesting links. I particularly liked Relate-a-zon, but I am not going to take it seriously. Not until I'm done marking, anyway. Well, maybe if I played just a little now, I'd be able to focus ...
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Joey de Villa of TUCOWS wants to start a discussion about Toronto's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) initiative, the aim of which is to move Toronto from the #3 spot in North America (behind Silicon Valley and New York, ahead of Boston) into #2. Joey feels that plans are currently ...
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
Mike Gunderloy's blog at Larkware is always worth reading. Today's items include Usability vs. Buyability and Have I Inherited a Disaster? Coincidentally, DrProject still isn't ready for release because of packaging issues: while some people are able to install it in 15 minutes or less on a clean Linux box, ...
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
DemoCamp 6 will be held from 6:30-8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 30, in the MaRS Building on College Street. It promises to be a good show, with a couple of demos from U of T.
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Sunday, May 14th, 2006
As you may have noticed we're currently in the process of upgarding the blog installation on Pyre. Hopefully there won't be any major hiccups, but if there are, sorry, it happens. If you notice any major problems, please let me know at igorfoox __at __ gmail dot com.
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
A new machine is always an opportunity to clean house---you simply don't reinstall the things you once thought were worth downloading, and don't copy over the files you no longer need. So, 56 hours after taking possession, what's on my new laptop?
Tools
Apache
Audacity
Blitzin (for recreation)
Cygwin
Eclipse
Emacs
Firefox and Thunderbird
Gimp
Gnumeric
the Google Toolbar (but ...
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