Software As She’s Developed

Let’s say you wanted to capture a few images for a fade effect, which means you need a sequence of rapid screenshots. Here’s a script I’ve been using: i=0 ; while [ 1 ] ; do i=expr $i + 1 ; screencapture -C $i.png ; sleep 0.1; done Hit ctrl-c to kill it, then […]

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Working (offline) on Richer Plugin, I’ve expanded the list of reasons you’d want to use a Richer Plugin, i.e. Flash, Java Applets, Standalone clients, Firefox extensions etc. Here’s the list of things Ajax can’t do on it’s own - what else is there? Browser morphing Adding buttons, toolbars, bookmarks, icons; changing browser behaviour. Local file access Reading and […]

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Surgery by Ajax is imminent. We just need to solve that NP-hard URL problem … CEO of Ajax The Slasher, David Hassaminor Hickup, said “We knew from the outset that AJAX would cure cancer. This is just the first step. Tomorrow’s children will be concieved via AJAX technology. We are working on an AJAX-enabled satellite with […]

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How long until wikipedia becomes a honeypot? “Who wants to be a millionaire” contestant is struggling to answer the question, “What year did the Fonz jump the shark?”, and calls out to Lifeline Buddy. Back in 2005, Lifeline Buddy would have googled for the answer. But this is 2007, and “wiki” is now a household name […]

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