It seems I gained a lot of traffic a little while ago from a little post I made about Mojo. At that time, it seems the internets got confused and somehow a waterfall effect of misunderstandings revolving around the palm pre operating system arose. Gladly those were all cleared up.

Since then there has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes by the core team trying to get Mojo open source. They came through a couple weeks ago and now Mojo is official out in the wild.

Being an advocate of open source, I used the opportunity to quickly build a scaffolding framework for Mojo called Mojo Tasks. I had talked about doing it for a while, and tested a few difference implementations before I finally settled on the current implementation which you can find on my Git Hub account.

All that said, I would like to welcome Mojo into the open source world and I am very excited to make more contributions to this amazing UI framework.

So given these reasons, I’ve migrated back to windows, but had a very hard time giving up the environment. I have been using cygwin for a long time, then started using puttycyg, but I still wasn’t happy, because I wanted a tabbed UI. I went searching around and found a few options, but the one that I decided on was ponderosa. It’s a pretty slick tool that lets you split your console sessions vertically, horizontally etc. Think of it as a window manager for cygwin.

I installed it at home, and it worked great. When I came to work the next day and tried installing it, it couldn’t find the cygwin registry key. I started comparing registry’s and I found that on my home computer the key was installed in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and on my work machine it was only installed to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Obviously, as the error indicated, I needed to have this key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

I haven’t had a lot of experience editing the registry, so I was a little nervous but it turned out to be very simple.

1. Export HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygnus Solutions to a .reg file on my desktop
2. Open with note pad
3. Replace all instances of HKEY_CURRENT_USER with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
4. Re-import into registry
5. Restart Ponderosa

Amazingly, it worked. I don’t think I should suggest you edit your registry at work. But just remember. The biggest difference between windows and linux is the ideology that you need to accept faulty software in windows. I think more often you find that Linux users are accustomed to modifying their OS to meet their needs, while windows users are happy to just accept the issue. Well, this is me saying, don’t accept the issue. Hell, if the software doesn’t work, then maybe accept that it’s crappy software, but if that is the case you should write better software or patch the software to fill the gap. If everyone did this, the windows software world would not be such a gong show.

Recently in my job at Blast Radius I have been exposed to abstracted control methods. In my interview Loyal asked me if I know what "inversion of control" was. I assumed it was the opposite of version control, and we had a laugh. It so happens that inversion of control is a very interesting concept that fits really well into my favorite javascript Mootools. With this new concept in mind, I decided I would finally write a new plugin for mootools. It’s been a while since I wrote anything that anyone cared to download or comment on, so I thought I’d give this concept a go and see how people respond to it.

The plugin is called sLabFx and here is the Demo.

Basically it’s a set of classes that when called, will reference a configuration file, preload and bind a set of motion effects and events, then fire them in which every timeline sequece you can event. The benefit to this plugin is that you can write highly animated effects without ever having to edit the actual code. You have a simple JSON configuration file that you structure to include all of your fx and chains, which essentially serves as sort of a timeline (like flash) for your application.

So with that said, I am interested to hear what developers think, could this be useful if it were packaged with a javascript timeline application which allows the JSON config to be generated dynamically? All the sudden, we have a flash like javascript app on our hands.

Please leave a comment with your thoughts!

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