November 2007
6 posts
How to tell if Facebook is requesting your app. →
How To Build A Read/Write JavaScript API explains a scheme that uses fragment identifiers appended to iframe src attributes to pass requested mashup data across domain boundaries. Quite clever, as it doesn’t depend on any dns rewriting, plugins, or platform-specific loopholes. I suspect this could even work on an iphone.
Sample, Store, Playback
This post about Slow Glass (it takes light a full year to pass all the way through a pane of the fictional stuff) got me thinking about sample, store, and playback—the pattern that first got me really interested in programming. When I was in high school, I wanted to build a virtual parrot that would listen to the ambient noise in a room, pick out snippets of speech or other unusual sounds,...
Music To My Eyes
While it scares me that Eolas won their dumb patent case, I felt like jumping for joy when I saw that MSIE will support object tags again. Microsoft IE patch eliminates extra step - CNET Right now, you need javascript to see Flash. By next spring, you won’t anymore. That’s huge, because plenty of services (think newsfeeds, k?) that support embedded media don’t support...
EV Conversion
re: previous post: Of course, Godwin is taking a few liberties in describing the ease of an EV conversion, but these have everything to do with the still-just-hobby-scale nature of such things. In addition to the motor and the batteries, you need a controller—the thing which regulates the voltage to the motor—and you need to provide replacement power for things like the heater, power...
“Everybody should be driving a plug-in vehicle right now.”
– … Jonathan Godwin complains. “I can go next door to Ace Hardware and buy a DC electric motor, go out to my four-wheel-drive truck, remove the transmission and engine, bolt the electric motor onto the back of the transfer case, put a series of lead-acid batteries up to 240 volts in the...