I had a fun chat today with Coté on his “make all” podcast. Here are some of the topics I remember discussing: What’s important (and what’s not important) about HTML 5 The increasing ubiquity of JavaScript Java-to-JavaScript translation technologies (e.g. GWT and JDojo) Ajax, RPC, and REST The nirvana of mobile devices plus cloud-based data [...]
Tagged ajax, cote, html5, jazz, mobile, podcast, webI know this is total n00b stuff but I always forget the particular so I thought I’d write it down in a blog entry. To add a custom scripts directory to your path, do the following: In your root directory, create a file called .bash_profile.sh with something like the following: if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; [...]
Tagged bash, code, mac, os-x, unixI hit a very annoying issue using Audible.com on my Mac with iTunes and my iPhone. I thought I’d document it in case others hit it. Setting the Stage I got a MacBook Pro in early 2009. I buy audiobooks from Audible.com and store them in iTunes. From iTunes I sync the audiobooks to my [...]
Occasionally I need to produce YouTube HD videos showing me doing something in a web browser. Up ’till now I’ve had to painfully, manually resize the browser window to 1280×720 so that the video didn’t get unnaturally shrunk or expanded by my screencast rendering software. Tonight I figured out a way to automatically resize my [...]
Tagged applescript, mac, safari, tipsI used to read a lot of tech books, like a an hour or two a day. Several years, several promotions, two kids, and one deteriorating eye later, I realized I wasn’t reading much anymore. The combination of work commutes / Audible.com / iPod helped me keep up with novels and non-techy non-fiction, but I [...]
As my dear colleagues Simon Johnston and James Branigan have mentioned in various blog posts, on the Jazz project that I work on, we’ve (finally) fallen in love with the web/REST story. Because of this, we spend a lot of time in technical conversations using the standard REST alphabet soup vocabulary you’d expect – HTTP, [...]
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