leisure town is back online! (or wasn't it away at all?)
out of breach!
mu.
last century's promise of anti-gravity (and besides also the one of augmented reality) for me finally comes closer to its fulfillment thanks to harmonix' antigrav console game. i'm absolutely loving it!
among 30.000 people: my parents.
apple developer connection: Dynamic HTML and XML – The XMLHttpRequest object.
fasten your seat-belts, please.
it was a recent, a tiny link at langreiter.com, that redefined an impersonator of greek mythology to what should become the new way of creating web applications.
it combines the usual suspects of xhtml, css, dom and javascript with some more wicked technology like xml/xslt and a browser extension that is able to make http requests from within a document (ie. without reloading the page).
it's called ajax and for sure this is an interesting concept, although i agree with chris that the xml/xslt part is rather dodgy.
anyway, besides the big players like google, robert gaggl has been doing it exactly this way already for quite some time (and still does not need a groovy project name).
for my own part (as few might remember) i recently experimented with a similar approach and called the result kurt.
well, that means: it has been called kurt for the longest time, so if you don't mind to clap your hands a little while i raise the curtain for...
this time you can try it yourselves: it certainly cannot do everything that's possible inside the helmothership (a lot of methods are missing and there's e.g. no xml-rpc, not to mention database connectivity) but i think it already goes pretty far and proves the concept.
just enter some code into the left textarea, try some global methods, create a hopobject or two and render a skin with these... it should work easily by pressing the "evaluate" button, just as the "example" button pastes in some code that should demonstrate chopper's capabilities in a simple but striking way.
sidenote: if the ajax people really believed in success they probably should have chosen a less heroic as well as shameful representant. in fact, all heroes end tragically.
dimitré dinev, again.
and again: soon in a theatre near you (if you live in vienna).
"As SOAP and Web Services percolate into open source projects like Mono, the various Apache implementations, and a variety of other tools, it may be a good idea to take a close look at the underpinnings of the technology, not just whether it feels good today. Distributed services have always been complex, and it's not clear that SOAP has cleaned away the long-term complexity." – Simon St. Laurent, 25. april 2005.
Dear listeners!
bela butono make their new album dayereh 05 available for download. for free.
i'm glad that their music made it to the public, this way or that way. the voice obviously (or rather: obaurally) is back again. congrats and good luck, too.