Reasoning with Machines

Planning a site redesign for 2012. Feel free to drop me a line at ddarras@yahoo.com

Although not quite on the Blogroll, I will maintain notes on Windows too.

In 2005 while taking Dynamic Web Development at ITP, I made a sketch using Processing/AJAX, VoiceXML, MySQL, Perl, and PHP.   You call a number and can move an object on the web page.   I recently revisited it with the intent to build it out more but didn’t have the time.   I was however able to get it working for a minute – the goal is to stop polling the server with a JavaScript hack and port it to JQuery for a more sustainable/seamless movement.   I have some specific ideas as to how something like this could find a practical usage.

More an addition than an “issue” but not quite a fork. If you want to add shadowbox.js to the links in kennethkufluk/js-mindmap , this is what worked for me:

this.el.click(function(){
if (obj.activeNode) {
obj.activeNode.el.removeClass(‘active’);
}
if (typeof(opts.onclick)==’function’) {
opts.onclick(thisnode);
}
obj.activeNode = thisnode;
obj.activeNode.el.addClass(‘active’);
this.el = $(‘‘+this.name+’‘);

Shadowbox.open({
player: ‘qt’,
title: ‘Welcome’,
content: this.href,
height: 480,
width: 720
});

In the HTML, place the JavaScript that calls the shadowbox at the bottom of your document:

I’ve added a couple of posts for Flash AS3 snippets:  http://www.reasoningwithmachines.com/flash

sudo apt-get install

N.B.  If you are downloading a binary file off of the Internet, make sure you have the actual binary extension, otherwise you will just download the HTML from the web page itself.   For instance, if you’re downloading the JDK, make sure the apt-get install link is pulling the binary not the “click-here” HTML page.

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

netstat -an | grep “LISTEN “

The Full Screen Galleria did not render on either the original iPhone or Windows Phone.   I suspected that the bug had to do with ordering of JavaScript.   Removing the link to Google’s version of JQuery, saving it locally, and pointing to that local link seemed to do the trick.

After usage of Aino’s open source Galleria plug-in, I decided to upgrade to the Full-Screen version for my personal graphics portfolio since shelved till further notice.

This plug-in is a fine example of ways to monetize open-source projects, not to mention an efficient, standards-based means of presenting photos and portfolios.

I am posting notes on Linux at the following URL:  http://www.reasoningwithmachines.com/linux

Before I have foot-in-mouth for the above, please realize that this is a work-in-progress and will be updated with real content shortly. In the next couple of month, I will have laser focus on JavaScript, JavaScript libraries, ActionScript3.0, AIR, any other dynamic front-end code that meshes with the back-end.

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