Category: Awareness

This plugin loads a CVS file (e.g. created using Excel) and creates a table with the contents in that CVS file.

We have designed a basic set of desktop icons that follow the style guidelines. The set has been created as a proof of concept for the style, but works rather well as a replacement for the base theme under GNOME and KDE.

If you looked at OilCan – a Greasemonkey-like browser extension for Android – and Mosembro, you’d quickly realize that they have a lot in common. Both are experimental browser extensions which run on Android, both aim to make websites friendlier, both support installable actions written in JavaScript, and both make it possible for those scripts to modify web pages and launch other applications. And since looking at OilCan’s source code has allowed me to avoid reinventing the wheel at several occasions, some pretty obvious similarities can also be spotted at the source code level.

Hpricot is a fast, flexible HTML parser written in C. It's designed to be very accommodating (like Tanaka Akira's HTree) and to have a very helpful library (like some JavaScript libs — JQuery, Prototype — give you.) The XPath and CSS parser, in fact, is based on John Resig's JQuery. Also, Hpricot can be handy for reading broken XML files, since many of the same techniques can be used. If a quote is missing, Hpricot tries to figure it out. If tags overlap, Hpricot works on sorting them out. You know, that sort of thing.

I’m more and more amazed by the power of mobile webkit. I don’t love the iPhone that much, but as a web developer the beauty of CSS transitions, animations and transforms can’t pass unnoticed. This time I’m giving away a widget that resembles the native Picker View (UIPickerView) functionality but entirely built on javascript.

Study of mobile computing on smartphones with an emphasis on applications. These handheld Internet devices are poised to become the future dominant software platform as a result of the rapid convergence of computers and mobile phones. Topics covered will include mobile operating systems and development environments, input modalities and user interfaces for mobile devices, power management issues for mobile devices, wireless mobile networking, thin clients and mobile Web, location-aware and other context-aware services, and virtualization. A course programming project will be required.

A good list of tools for recovering hard drives when they go south…