http://blog.slajax.com secure lightweight ajax solutions ../uploads/2009/12/mojo.jpg Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:39:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ../uploads/2009/12/mojo.jpg 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 ... http://blog.slajax.com/2009/12/16/blast-radius-mojo-now-open-source-with-mojo-tasks-scaffolding/ slickr.jpg I was implementing slickr, a flickr plugin for wordpress, on my newest site http://scenemap.net yesterday, and I realized right away that it wasn't going to be compatiable with my code because I exclusively use mootools. So, I rewrote the javascript for mootools. You can get the code here or look at it here: var ... http://blog.slajax.com/2009/08/26/slickr-for-mootools/ windows-reg-fail.jpg Recently I got a new computer at work. It's pretty sweet, x64 os, 6gb ram, 250 sata hd. It works better then the last one, that's for sure. In sort of the same timeline, I was also forced to switch back to windows for a few reasons. Dual monitor (monitor 2 in ... http://blog.slajax.com/2009/05/25/cygwin-ponderosa-hack-the-registry/ skype_logo_online.gif Recently I started getting very frusterated with my lack of care in consumption. I started realizing that I was spending way too much on a bunch of services I didn't really need. I decided that I wanted a fresh start so I paid off the balance on my credit card ... http://blog.slajax.com/2009/04/29/agile-communications/ git-hub-blog.png I haven't been blogging that much lately, but hopefully that will change now that I've adopted git hub. I think my goal is going to be to release smaller scripts and projects more often. Smaller projects are easier to maintain and actually have a better chance of fitting niche requirements. ... http://blog.slajax.com/2009/02/17/fotoglif-api-client-on-git-hub/ developer_pain.jpg I found this video via digg today: No one said life was easy.... Hug a developer, we're mis-managed and abused! http://blog.slajax.com/2008/09/12/hug-a-developer/ linux-desktop/Screenshot-Desktop-preview.jpg Anyone who has seen my desktops knows that I'm a big fan of the MacOSX sleek design, however much prefer the flexibility and freedom of Ubuntu. Even on windows, I'd rather install cygwin and skin my operating system using FlyAKiteOSx. That said, I had never been able to really emulate ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/09/09/macosx-skin-on-ubuntu-linux/ ../uploads/2008/08/slabfx.jpg 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 ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/08/29/introducing-slabfx-beta/ ubuntu_logo.jpg Thanks to the awesome CTO and Senior Python Programmer at fotoglif.com where I worked previously, Linux has become much more then a novelty in my tool set. While working there, I made the decision that I would go forth and adopt Ubuntu as my exclusive desktop of choice in all ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/08/12/why-i-only-use-linux-at-work/ dojo.png Since I joined Blast Radius I have been introduced to a lot of new and interesting development practices, frameworks and designs that I have always read or heard about, but was never really forced or motivated to imply in my daily progression. One such framework I wrote briefly about is Mojo. ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/07/23/javascript-cross-domain-ajax/ ../uploads/2008/07/blast_front_door.jpg So as of monday my first full week at Blast Radius is completed. As you can see from the terribly pixelated photo above, I found it with no issues. It just so happens that my apartment is much closer then I originally thought. I literally have been leaving for work ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/07/17/first-week-at-blast-radius-over/ I always knew that Canada was a very large country, but I never realized exactly how large until we passed Sault St Marie and lobbed ourselves around the Huron and Lake Superior. The truth is that northern Ontario doesn't have much to it. Lots of shoreline, a few Can-ops, and ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/06/23/bc-or-bust-halfway-point/ blast.jpg I've been working hard over the last few years in Toronto to perfect my craft, and I knew eventually I would be relocating to the west coat again for work. It had always been my dream to do what I'm doing now, only with the mountains and coast line by ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/06/17/relocating-to-vancouver-senior-interface-developer/ agent_ultra.jpg My good friend Mr Ultra writes that he believes PHP is soon to be an obsolete language because of it's late adoption of such ever so necessary concepts such as namespaces. I personally will have to disagree. I believe that the successful adoption of PHP being so high has a ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/06/17/re-php-obsolete/ sutori.jpg I've been pretty excited over the last week about the new experiences coming up so I did some digging around and found Sutori.com which is a Blast Radius sponsored pro-sumer driven social network for people to connect and share their experiences and information about products and companies. The whole concept behind ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/06/17/sutori-and-second-hand-consumer-experiences/ Mushroom Life is a very interesting flash application that requires a lot of clicking. The application shows a very nicely laid out 3d area that when you click mushrooms grow. However, there are rules to this game as follows: For each generation, a mushroom with 1 or 0 neighbor dies (loneliness), a mushroom ... http://blog.slajax.com/2008/02/14/mushroom-life/ This is probably one of the coolest source code visualizations I have ever seen. I'm not exactly sure how they did it. Points to whomever can explain it!read more | digg story http://blog.slajax.com/2008/02/14/xentheon-where-is-my-mind/ realestate-tag.jpg So here is something I was reading on Tech Crunch this morning about real estate start ups on the web. Cyber Homes, a startup that I would loved to have been the founder of is a real estate mapping service that provides high level overviews and more specific statistics based ... http://blog.slajax.com/2007/11/12/realestate-2-0/ opensocial.jpg So finally the powers that be have chosen to use their voice in an attempt to show the world what "open" really is. We've seen a lot of improvement in the social networking field over the last 2 years, with leadsers such as Linked In and Sales Force showing the ... http://blog.slajax.com/2007/11/09/open-social-is-finally-here/ akelos.gif I have recently discovered Akelos a wonderfully efficient framework that allows you to control scaffolding and generate controllers in much the same way that you would in Ruby on Rails. Not only is the framework designed to cut corners, but it also has an amazingly useful version control system, that ... http://blog.slajax.com/2007/08/24/akelos-a-pragmatic-php-framework/