June 2008
15 posts
“My only regret is that I didn’t buy more clown shoes. A dozen, two dozen, enough...”
– David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Firefox 3 →
is out, sporting Cocoa chrome and the pervasive as-big-as-Gates’-glasses back button!
SproutCore →
Ruby on Rails is so last tuesday. Sproutcore is a cocoa-like framework for developing Javascript-based web apps with a JSON backend.
Versions - Mac Subversion Client →
Jasper Hauser et al. create a nice and clean interface to Subversion. Not sure if this will pry me from my terminal though.
For the last few months, the interweb has been positively buzzing with Barack Obama hype. I’m no election buff, but this seems to be something new (and exclusive to Obama). What’s especially interesting is that most references to Obama I stumbled upon have little to do with politics. Maybe the nerds feel they are finally being heard.
Plurk
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Plurk is a Twitter clone that shows ‘tweets’ on a timeline, which is pretty nifty. I really don’t understand why all these apps think they have to reinvent the wheel though. Twitter API anyone?
Processing ported to Javascript →
Excellent waste of time!
Trulia Snapshot →
Houses on maps are nothing new, but I love the attention to detail here. Example: a horizontal motion blur is applied to items when you scroll past them really fast.