One of the DHTML (Dynamic HTML) effects not built into my own libraries is a fish-eye effect. Those of you who have a Mac will know the effect I’m talking about: when you move your mouse over a menu bar, the items expand but in a way that emulates a ‘fish-eye’ magnifier. This isn’t a […]
Month: July 2006
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Picture This
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I haven’t been out indulging in my photography as much. Both my contract and book have (had) the same set of deadlines so there were few days I could do more than take a quick walk in the park. Now, I’m in the last stages of the contract, and the […]
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What it is
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My philosophy as I begin this new journal can be found in the movie, “Six Days and Seven Nights”. In the movie, the main character, Quinn (played by Harrison Ford), is a rough edged island society drop out who flies a beat up old plane between Tahiti and a tropical […]
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Tipping the Apple cart
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There are some high profile folk in the technology and weblgging communities who are quitting Apple products: Mark Pilgrim, Cory Doctorow, and even Tim Bray is giving it a thought. Jason Kottke asks whether Apple should be worried. He wonders whether these acts could be a foretaste of what is to come: Nerds are a […]
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The new Hello World
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Programmers have traditionally created as their first application in any language or environment the “Hello World” application. This is an application, small as possible, that outputs the words, “Hello World”. Wikipedia has a nice entry on Hello World, including the first known instance of using this now ubiquitous right of passage […]