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Offline Sound: No Flash, No File

I just did some tinkering with offline sound and it turns out you can embed an audio clip in an HTML file, and play it without using Flash. I could have demo'd this in a raw HTML file, but it was just ....... read more
Tue,
21 Oct 2008
OpenSocial-Tiddlywiki Integration

Go straight to the demo.
I'm at the Osmosoft hackathon and finally got an opportunity to experiment with OpenSocial-Tiddlywiki integration. Specifically, how to embed OpenSocial gadgets in Tiddlywi ....... read more
Wed,
03 Sep 2008
The official olympics medal tally is broken. Let’s fix it.

This is how the official olympics medal tally looks:
Its not only the official tally, but the one linked from google each time you type olympics and terms like australia olympics. Thus making ....... read more
Mon,
18 Aug 2008
Tiddlywiki internals 3 of 3: Key Javascript Classes and Files

(This is part 3 of a 3-part series. Part 1 introduces the internals and highlights some of the key patterns and concepts. Part 2 introduces each Javascript file. Part 3 focuses on the internals of the ....... read more
Mon,
11 Aug 2008
Tiddlywiki internals 2 of 3: List of Javascript Files

(This is part 2 of a 3-part series. Part 1 introduces the internals and highlights some of the key patterns and concepts. Part 2 introduces each Javascript file. Part 3 focuses on the internals of the ....... read more
Mon,
11 Aug 2008
Tiddlywiki internals 1 of 3: Architectural Concepts

(This is part 3 of a 3-part series. Part 1 introduces the internals and highlights some of the key patterns and concepts. Part 2 introduces each Javascript file. Part 3 focuses on the internals of the ....... read more
Mon,
11 Aug 2008
vCard for Developers


Ive been researching vCard for a project involving contacts management. This is a quick overview on vCard aimed at developers, with a demo and stealing the example from wikipedias vCard entry. T ....... read more
Tue,
22 Jul 2008
OpenSocial: A Beautiful Platform for Server-less Web Development


Its belatedly dawned on me how OpenSocial makes a great server-less Ajax platform. When you create an OpenSocial gadget, youre building a lil Ajax app that performs much coolness that would norm ....... read more
Thu,
26 Jun 2008
What is OpenSocial?

I just realised theres no good executive summary for OpenSocial. Every resource fluffs about the social aspect and forgets about the UI aspect. The UI aspect, essentially a gadget specification, i ....... read more
Sun,
22 Jun 2008
Shindig Architecture: Java Gadget Server 2 - Servlets

More raw Shindig notes. This time, looking at org.apache.shindig.gadgets.http. See Shindigging tag. I'll structure them just a little more this time.
Main Servlet
BasicHttpContext.java - data st ....... read more
Tue,
26 Feb 2008