Archive: Programming category
Introducing Glider, a lightweight, minimalist, keyboard-driven wiki written in PHP and Javascript.
For the last while I've been itching to try out HTML 5's Canvas tag.
Cool new web-based Powerpoint clone called 280 Slides:
Chris at Wait till I come! mentions this about it:
The most amazing thing about this is happening under the hood: the developer wrote a library that abstracts browser rendering engines using Canvas, ...
I recently stumbled across a rather cool website called Peoples Archive. It has tons of short videos with "the world's greatest thinkers, creators, and achievers." While some of the categories seem to have sparser coverage than others, it's still a wonderful idea (sort of like TED ...
I read The Last Battle in a two-hour sitting last night. I'd forgotten how wonderful it is to sit down with a book and read it in one long draught, not in these intermittent gulps as I usually do. But then again, reading a book all at once ...
This morning after I left the temple, an idea came into my head. It looked roughly like this:
And now, eleven hours later (with an hour taken out for lunch), I've got most of it done. This screenshot is real -- it's not a mockup. ...
So, I like design (typography, bookmaking, etc.) and textual work (like with An Icelandic Primer). It gives me great joy and satisfaction.
I also like programming. I've done it for years.
At the moment, though, I feel like I've bitten off more than I can chew. I'm talking ...
I just wrote a little Ruby on Rails app that pulls all my Top of the Mountains posts and comments from the database and exports them to HTML. When I figure out how I want From the Top of the Mountains to look, I'll remove the HTML and replace ...
Turns out that Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto), the creator of the very popular programming language Ruby, is LDS. Yes, that's right. And it's not even a rumor. This is really, really cool, and yet another reason to like Ruby. :) A post on the ...
It's interesting to see which posts get the most comments, and so this morning I wrote a little plugin for WordPress that displays just that. You can see its results in the "Most Popular Posts" section in the sidebar. As for the plugin itself, I'll release it once ...
