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on me and coding and some things

This manifesto shall not be forgotten. Provoked by the the gapingvoid request for manifesto submissions i was reminded of this importend piece of coder culture. The manifesto was part of making me believe in what i was doing at that time, damned maybe it was even (part of) the reason for not becoming an instant billionaire in the first new economy bubble.

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an old css/javascript experiment i did. haven’t touched it in a while but i think it is still cute enough to post here for your viewing pleasure.

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note: might break in any browser, was done with firefox

test, test, test…

i’m about to tweak Dan Webbs CodeHighlighter into my wordpress theme.

So expect this post to fizzle quite unexpectedly… und danke fuer die beachtung aller sicherheitsmassnahmen

def bar 
   puts "bar"
end

def foo(a, b => { :one => 1, :two => "zwei" }) puts "#{self}" end

not quiet yep, it works.

CodeHighlighter is nice, unobtrusive. The only mess was getting to grips with the wordpress php template stuff. CSS style needs and will get some fixes though.

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getting into testing frenzy, posting videos from YouTUBE to the blog.



What i don’t get is, i need uname and pass, ok, but what for they want an wordpress API KEY and the API URL for it on the YouTUBE side? The API URL turns out just to be the blog posting url(../xmlrpc.php in my case) which still leaves me with the question of what do they need the my API key for? account credentials should be sufficient. tbc|investigated…


update: i couldn’t get the YouTube posting to work, the embedded video you see above got inserted manually, sigh.

Internet i must say, we’re not yet there, not even close…

My final tip is that you ask women—and only women. My theory is that deep in the DNA of men is a “killer” gene. This gene expresses itself by making men want to kill people, animals, and plants.

Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start

yep, i think he has a point here. I like the guy, and I-D is doing great!

photo upload ganz einfach:

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gesehen bei: all you can eat, ah, upload i mean.

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one more step towards it. Now there even is an “Official Ruby for Symbian Released“. Nokia sells 400 Million phones a year, don’t know how much of them are Symbian, but enough for beeing an interessting deployment platform. Hmm, lets go mobile!

this code is a piece of art. It was the most inspiring use of ruby i’ve seen in a while. First there is:

class << TODOS = IO.read('TODO')
  # hand made TODO api here
end

which wraps the String just loaded from disk in its very own, perfectly suited API. This is like hand made english cut vs. H&M. And than there is:

items.grep(regexp).instance_eval do
   def display
     # custom display function here
   end
end

which again, does nicely fit a custom API around the found data. Doing it on the fly, no base classes, interfaces or and other sign of bothering the user with extraneous code. I just love it.

for testing purpose i made some notes onto a web site of mine with the fleck annotation/graffiti tool for web pages. What can i say, it just works. One more proof for the feasebility of the concepts i tried to sell my client for nearly most of the year now, to no avail. They just don’t see it, they are focused on business models :-) About which i just agree with Mr. Fletcher: 

Fletcher: “If you don’t have an audience, it doesn’t really matter what your biz model is.”

Ich habe heute meinen CoreconCC Einfuehrungskurs im Second Life hinter mich gebracht. Das war recht nett. Nachdem es, allerdings erst mit 25 minuten verspaetung, losgehen konnte, klappte dann doch alles und allein die tatsache das spontan waehrend der veranstalltung auf die im SecondLife vorhandenen Moeglichkeit des life audio streaming gewechselt werden konnte, macht doch schoen deutlich, dass mittlerweile die VR techniken eine genueg ausgepraegten stand erreicht haben koennten. Ich bin da mal vorsichtig, bleib im konjunktiv, weil so richtig traue ich mir eine meinung zu diesem thema nicht mehr zu(history repeating itself maybe?). Die 25 Minuten verspaetung waren im uebrigen den diversen kleinen glitches mit dem eigentlich vorgesehenen Skypecast geschuldet. Kein mesch braucht 3D, hat Jim Blinn mal auf einen Siggraph keynote gesagt, und da hat er wohl recht, aber nett war es schon. Und so 2006, mit DSL und dual core powered laptops scheint es auch die notwendige technologische durchdringung zu geben die ja notwendig ist. Ich bin zu faul jetzt noch die links zusammenzuklauben, aber stay tuned, ich werde SecondLife in naechster zeit mal ernsthaft checken. Und spaetestens wenn ich land gekauft habe schick ich auch einen link. Mein alter ego hoert im uebrigen auf den namen Xabbaxaco Yetto.

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