I have semi-implemented edit in place on this site. It works on the month view page and not on the home-page. I have left it open for anyone to play with, when you hit save though, it will skip saving to the database.
The whole thing was written from scratch only using the dojo.bind for the remote calls. I have tested it using both WebKit and Gecko. It works almost the same in both apart from WebKit's wrong implementation of scrollHeight so it wont auto size the textarea. It is untested in IE but I hope to check that tomorrow.
There is one thing that really irritates me about most web2 companies. To test their products and see if it could be of use to you, you have to surrender your email address and a password. Why don't they implement a "Take the 15 minute test-drive" feature that gives you full use of the system for 15 minutes? If you like the test you can register and save what you have done. If you don't like it what you did will just disappear in to a puff of smoke. Its a simple idea but it would get me testing more services.
Tomorrow will be the last day this week of exams and that can mean only one thing... On Thursday I will be attempting to bring this site up to date with some javascript funk.
My friend and I have decided to create a web2.0 start-up. We are currently looking for suggestions for both what to call it and what it will produce. Any help on this matter would be great.
Since I arrived at university I have only really used one language, the language we are being taught, Java. When I created the CMS to handle my mumblings it was a weight off my shoulders. That is to say I felt free. As great as java is it is a bit of a bloat and is rather heavy. I cant wait until I have time to myself again and can play with some more lightweight code. With this in mind I am either going to jump headfirst in to javascript or python its just a case of picking one.
It seems Mr Dan Benjamin has re-aligned re-designed his narrative for 2007. Now if only he had a 'everything on my site' RSS feed. Still you cant have everything can you.
So I was walking around university today when I noticed this sign attached to a wall.
What do you do when you see this sign? Run away? Walk looking in the sky? Or is it just to cover their backs incase anyone tries to sue?
I have decided that when my exams are over (in a week), I am going to develop a nice javascript edit-in-place script to run on this site. So when I make a small grammatical or spelling error I can quickly change it without having to log in to my admin interface.
I was planing on using the DojoToolkit's editor widget. However, it uses rich text and at the moment the site's content is written in plain text (markdown). I can see two possible options: one use a simple textarea; or two convert this site to rich text. I hate decisions.
I have been doing a little bit of tidying up around these parts. In my tidying I have decided that I don't like regular expressions. I do love however, how simple this site's code it looking. The main benefit of making it custom built (other than the fun of coding) is that there is next to no fluff.
Don't you love it when things just work.
public class Colourful {
public enum Colour { blue, red, green };
public Colour colour;
public Colourful(Colour colour){
this.colour = colour;
}
public static void main(String[] args){
Colourful classy = new Colourful(Colour.red);
System.out.println(classy);
}
public String toString(){
switch(this.colour) {
case blue: return "mmm blue";
case red: return " ahh red";
case green: return "ooo green";
default: return "huh? What are you doing here?";
}
}
}
It would seem that the price of the Apple Airport Express base station has gone down about £20, so I am going to get me one of them beauties. In other news I have decided that perhaps beer can solve all of life's problems.
I spy with my little eye, blue app icons. Finder, Mail, Preview, iTunes, iChat, iMovie, iDvd, Safari, Quicktime, Skype, Aduim, Camino, xPad and Transmission. You should be ashamed of yourselves you all look the same. Well done Textmate you stepped out from the crowd and got your own colour. What is this obsession with blue all about?
BitTraynt (the selfish bitTorrent client) sounds like a really nice idea. I would really like to test it on a fast internet connection. Say the one in my halls at university. If only they hadn't blocked all of the ports that I need. Why do I get the feeling that there is someone employed just to ruin my fun, damn them.
So the Apple expo is next week and everyone is getting excited. My one prediction for the expo is one that most people haven't talked about, the Airport Express router. For some reason this was one of the announcements everyone was looking for at the last event. This time though everyone has forgotten about it.
If you think about it this has to be a logical step for Apple to take at the same time the code named 'iTV' is released. Maybe it will only be a small bump but they are going to have to change it so it will be able to handle video streaming. Just my 2 cents on the event.
So a new start was on the cards but I didn't know it would work like this or that it would start this soon. For some reason though this feels right.
One of the problems with the old designs was that it was hard for me to add small comments on things. I could either post a full and long post or nothing at all. With this implementation this requirement is now gone. No titles, no comments, no individual pages, just content.