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December 21, 2009
The web is the future of mobile computing too I’ve already blogged about Palm’s WebOS and mobile computing in general in the past, but I saw something today that really excited me. Palm announced that they are introducing a fully web-based development environment for PalmOS called ` Project Ares ‘. Palm has already embraced the Web full-on as their platform…
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December 19, 2009
Balancing sponsorships and authenticity I was reading a small, relatively unknown blog the other day while looking for some pointers on setting up eBay accounts. Within a minute or so of reading, I realized that the entire point of this blog’s existence was for link bait, referral links, and cross-promotion. I clicked through a few more articles just to make…
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December 19, 2009
Git newline handling between platforms Previously, I had written/complained about the way that the Git version control system handled newline characters. I wanted to update that with some new information here. The cause of my frustration back then was that I hadn’t created my working copy correctly. I had been under the assumption that since each Git repository is a…
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December 17, 2009
Separating syntax and semantics I’ve been a fan of so-called `curly-brace’ languages for most of my programming career. I’ve gone from C to C++ to C# and Java. Somewhere along the way I fell in love with Javascript. I’ve dabbled a bit with languages like Perl and certainly done a fair bit of Posix shell scripting, although I never really…
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December 17, 2009
Building an information culture Lean startups thrive on information in the same way that lean manufacturing plants do. The only difference is that startups thrive on customer data rather than process data. Getting the best return on invested time and resources means leveraging ready made solutions by fitting them into the framework created by customer knowledge. I just read the…
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December 15, 2009
Casio DG-20 guitar teardown I bought a Casio DG-20 digital Midi guitar a few years ago thinking that it would be a cheap way to input Midi data into my sequencer using guitar fingering. I was partially right, but the feel of the instrument is not quite the same as a real guitar. The pressure-sensitive fingerboard is certainly unique, as…
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December 15, 2009
Make: Electronics – The new Engineers’ Notebook Probably my first electronics book when I was a kid was Forrest M. Mims ‘ Getting Started in Electronics . The book was wonderfully accessible to just about anyone, including 10 year old kids like myself. I read that book nearly every day, and I would always have a wish list of parts…
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December 13, 2009
Music gear and open source Image via Wikipedia I was checking around on Ebay recently for music gear that is on my ‘nice to have’ wish list, and when I searched for the Nord Modular synth, I realized that there is an open source version of the software required to create sounds for the instrument. From my experience so far…
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November 6, 2009
Fun with fractals using HTML5 I was writing some fractal code and thought that it would be interesting to see if it could be done in Javascript with graphical output provided by the HTML5 element. As you can see, it worked just fine, albeit a little bit slow. <html> <head> <script src="fractal.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript"></script> </head> <body onload="drawFractal();"> <canvas style="border: 1px…
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November 4, 2009
Updated thoughts on the smartphone market Earlier, I wrote about why I thought Palm was a winnner . Following that post, there have been some developments in the market. Namely, the announcement of the Motorola Droid mobile device. Since then, Palm’s stock has dropped precipitously and suddenly they are really looking like a distant third player in the market. It…