Archive for April, 2007

pixelDepth is closing

So I decided it is about time I done something else with pixelDepth (main domain), so I have decided that it will be closing this week, all tutorials (will be getting permission from authors) will be moved to the ProVision forum instead, this is so they aren’t completely gone, some of the tutorials are quality.

For any tutorial authors who have submitted to pixelDepth, please post here with your permission to repost them at ProVision. Failing that I will try and contact you personally when I get round to it.

Thursday, April 26th, 2007 General 17 Comments

ProVision Library

Last week and a bit, I put a little development team together to work on a Javascript library. Initially the library was aimed at ProBoards coders, but it could actually be used for anything, as there is no specific coding aim at ProBoards forums. The coding is coming along nicely, we have done quite a bit already.

Examples of the Element class…

This adds a wrapper around DOM elements, so there is a new API. It allows for things like…

$("myid").on("click", function(){
   alert(this.html());
});

$t("div").forEach(function(item){
   item.html("I am a div");
});

vars divs = $t("div").filter(function(item){
   return (item.className == “myclass");
});

Also, a very useful method that has been implemented which is called “where”, and it works like this…

PV.ready(function(){
   $t("td").where({
      width: “20%",
      className /windowbg/i,
      innerHTML: /Posts: ([\d,]+)/
   }).forEach(function(item){
      item.appendHTML("<br />Level: " + (item.$[0].getNumbers() * 5));
   });
});

So yeah, coming along nicely.

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 JavaScript, ProBoards, Programming 2 Comments

Kiva

“Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you’ve sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.”

Thought I would share that. I think it great. An excellent way to help small businesses in developing countries to make a living.

http://www.kiva.org/

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 General No Comments

Microsoft Silverlight

Just stumbled across an announcement on one of the Microsoft blogs…

Introducing Microsoft Silverlight

What is Silverlight?

“Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web.”

Sounds to me like they are trying to compete with Adobe Flash (aka Macromedia Flash). If that’s the case, then they are in for a tough time. Flash is mature, used by millions, and already dominates the market.

What’s next for them? Maybe attempting to compete with Adobe Apollo?

Monday, April 16th, 2007 General 5 Comments

Apollo Editor Source So Far

Someone at ProVision (forum) asked for the source, even though it is no where near being done, I thought I will release what I have so far incase anyone else wishes to see how I am doing it, or would like to carry on with their own version.

So here it is. You will need the Apollo runtime installed, and the SDK installed to be able to test the application. This is solely for developers, this is not a finished application (can not be installed yet unless it is packaged up into an air file), there isn’t a great deal done so far.

Editor.rar

Saturday, April 14th, 2007 Adobe AIR, Programming No Comments

Library + Happy Birthday To ME!

So today is my birthday, and I have had only 1 card :(

Ah well, lol, price you pay for getting older :p

For those that know me know that I do quite a bit of Javascript programming, mainly for ProBoards. Couple of days ago I thought it was about time I created myself a proper library, so that is what I have been doing. At the moment I am just working on the Event Manager class, and then onto the DOM class which is a wrapper so I can do things like…

PV.get("mydiv").on("click", myfuc);

That’s just a simple example, the on method accepts various parameters, i.e changing the function scope.

Obviously it will do more than that, it will be kind of like the libraries you see on the net, though coded the way I want it and aimed to make coding for ProBoards a lot quicker.

For my Apollo Editor, I haven’t had a chance to work on that since my last entry about it, although I did convert the open dialog to use the native one. Because Apollo is an alpha release, some things are a little tricky to do, would be cool if WebKit supported something like the MIDAS Spec. Will keep you updated on it though, it’s something I do want to complete :p

Friday, April 13th, 2007 Adobe AIR, General, JavaScript, Programming 10 Comments

Native File Dialogs

At the moment Apollo does not support native dialogs, we are forced to build our own to allow the user to navigate through the folders. If you take a look at my preview of my editor I am building in Apollo, you will see that I built my own. But I came across Daniel Dura’s blog, and an entry that caught my eye. In the entry he explains how you can create native dialogs for your Apollo application, it’s a clever idea actually…

http://www.danieldura.com/archive/apollo-native-file-dialogs

So now I am thinking about recoding some of the Javascript for my editor so it uses native dialogs, which in the long run would be better until Apollo supports them officially.

Saturday, April 7th, 2007 Adobe AIR, Programming No Comments

Javascript Editor Written In Apollo

Last couple of days I have been working hard on an Apollo application, this time though I wanted to create something useful. So after thinking, I thought I would have a go at writing a text editor in Javascript. It’s a long way from being completed, and I’m not 100% sure on just how much of it can be done in Javascript. So far though I have designed the layout, wrote the code for opening files, and started writing the code to handle preferences.

Here is a video of it…

Editor Preview

Also note that total lines and file size is shown in the status bar. I have to write a script to determine what line you are at, but it’s coming along nicely, and I am having fun coding it.

It’s 100% HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

When I am finished, it will be open source for people to look through and learn :)

Thursday, April 5th, 2007 Adobe AIR, Programming 5 Comments

WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10

New updates for wordpress…

“We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches.

These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems. Many thanks to Sumit Siddharth and Alex Concha for their help with reporting issues in this release.”

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/04/wordpress-213-and-2010/

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 General No Comments

Google TiSP

Check this out…

http://www.google.com/tisp/

Have a look at the install instructions :P

Sunday, April 1st, 2007 General 4 Comments

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