(Untitled)- October 25, 2005 Ben Simon has announced the release of the 'Scheme Pet Store'. It is a port of the J2EE demo application to the SISCWeb framework. SISCWeb is an open source continuation based web server for SISC Scheme.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/2005/10/25.html#a890 (Untitled)- October 25, 2005 Backbase, a rich internet application toolkit, have released version 3.1 of their community edition. Looking through the release notes there are some interesting changes and additions: Support for control focus in controls that allows navigating between controls using keys. Additions to the BXML language for scripts, dragdrop constraints, and other things. Lots of new controls! Bar charts, line charts, organisational charts, combobox, select, date picker, a 'Flash' control, and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/2005/10/25.html#a889 (Untitled)- October 22, 2005 Heiko Wengler notes that Joseph Strout's idea for implementing better text input methods has already been explored by IBM - ShapeWriter.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/2005/10/22.html#a888 (Untitled)- October 20, 2005 Joseph Strout sent me a link to an idea he had for improving text input methods in devices with no keyboards. It sounds look a good area for experimentation, especially the penstylus input method. From the sounds of it you end up remembering 'gestures' for words, or parts of words, to enable faster input. The gestures are mapped to a hexagonal grid of letters optimized for the input language.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/2005/10/21.html#a887 (Untitled)- October 19, 2005 The author of the MySpace Javascript worm talks about how he was able to use javascript injection techniques to propogate the worm. Most interesting is the write up on how he got around MySpace's attempts to prevent users from doing just that.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/2005/10/20.html#a886 (Untitled)- October 17, 2005 From Helen's Techblog: Snippets, a site for storing small code snippets which can be tagged, searched for, etc. Pretty neat. There's a distinct lack of Lisp snippets there though...need to work on that. They have a 'series 60' tag for mobile phone programming snippets on the Symbian OS which looks quite useful.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/2005/10/18.html#a885 (Untitled)- October 15, 2005 Soemthing I forgot to mention in my previous post about Backbase and Factor. The Factor file-responder does not serve the correct mime type for files with an extension of .css. I've fixed this in CVS or you can use the darcs repository at http:factor.modalwebserver.co.nzfactor.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/2005/10/15.html#a884 (Untitled)- October 15, 2005 I played around with Backbase, a Rich Internet Application framework, last night. It's basically a way of building applications using lots of client side XML and Javascript based scripts with Ajax. The nice thing about Backbase is it is all client side - you can use any web server. To get things working with the Factor httpd is trivial. First you need to download the 'free for non-commerical use' Community Edition. This is a .zip file that contains the code that the web server needs to serve...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/2005/10/15.html#a883 |