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May 16, 2007

Programmable keyboard layout

Filed under: Cyberspace — Josh Graham @ 10:54 am

This has been floating around for a while, but later this week pre-orders will start to be taken:

Optimus Maximus Keyboard http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

The current price tag and production schedule leaves it out of real contention for a year or so, but this is awesome.

It’s a keyboard using tiny organice LEDs (touch-sensitive) to render a graphic that usually happens to look like a computer keyboard, but could be a piano keyboard, animations, or anything else that you might want from a human user interface.

Imagine the keyboard automatically adjusting for regional settings, or flipping between MacOS and Windows in a virtual machine.

Apart from the very cool layout ideas, there’s also the idea of having it provide build status and summary for CruiseControl, perhaps making the build breakers’ keyboard have a very red background, and the rest of the team have a prominent build light area somewhere on the keyboard.

(Reminds me of the Star Trek PADDs and consoles…)

July 19, 2006

Krugle - the geek’s google

Filed under: Cyberspace — Josh Graham @ 9:07 pm

Krugle claims it’s the search engine for developers, making it easy for developers to find source code and technical information, fast.

Trent was thinking of barcoding from Java. He clicked on the Projects tab, typed “barcode”, and selected “Java”. Sweet. He showed me the slide-out window on the right-hand side for browsing the source repository, Ajax tabs that proxy the content from project web sites, syntax-highlighted code, etc. Sweeter.

I’m looking for ISO Schematron implementations in C# or Java. I decided to look directly in the source. Selected the Code tab, typed Schematron, found plenty of potentials on top of the Jing or JAXEN I was hoping for. So, plopped the official namespace PURL and found only one C program (used in Debian and Gnome) that potentially uses the ISO standard. Ah well, probably faster anyway ;-)

Highly recommended. http://krugle.com/

June 27, 2006

Crowdsourcing

Filed under: Cyberspace, Open Source — Josh Graham @ 4:14 pm

My erstwhile colleague, JR, has dropped me a note that his new company has just launched their website http://www.cambrianhouse.com/ Check it out for yourself and you can chase Her Majesty around their office.

I wonder if Cambrian House will be sending ThoughtWorks an elephant full of Coke?

November 15, 2005

Users Taking Control

Filed under: Cyberspace — Josh Graham @ 4:25 pm

Dropped into this seminar last night to hear four speakers discuss the “new” phenomenon of humans sharing information with each other. Of course, this conversation was set in the content of the Web and mobile devices, and although many of us have been doing it online for years, it’s at the maelstrom level of maturity and adoption now for the masses.

It was fantastic to hear the values and humanity underpinning Jonathan Nicholas‘ core tenents of trust, community-driven equilibrium, and “asking why, before how”. Although he was talking in the context of adolescent mental health it was very much like listening to an Agilist discuss the values inherent to our way of working.

Jennifer Wilson was authoritative on the part mobile devices have to play, not only as content creation and consumption tools, but as non-linear distribution channels, usage paradigm setters, and even subversive tools for those of us who are happy to contribute to an artist’s subsistence but don’t believe it’s the right of Disnewsonywarniacom to either pillage the author or take over our property when we want to enjoy the art. She also talked of the concepts around viral marketing and mentioned a book, which sounded much like the Idea Virus.

Mark Pesce was fascinating, for many reasons. His concise and well-articulated introductory evaluation rang true with me, and from the bobbing heads across the audience (I was at the front, so I merely felt the breeze caused by folicular kinetics), with many others too. In response to some of Mike’s (see below) comments on what News is doing in the myspaces arena, he said a much nicer version of my response which was going to be “if you put your crap on their craft, they’ll go somewhere else”.

Mike Walsh (not the 70’s TV host and cinema mogul) nearly had me snort in derision at his implications that professional journalists and editors clearly know more than the great unwashed and that most blogs circle around stories generated by the news media. I wonder who puts the food on his table at the moment? It’s also interesting as it was basically contradicting his own comments on the the film and music industries.

Anyway, I easily discounted his viewpoint by reflecting on my own experiences. For example, I first heard of the bombings in Baghdad during Desert Storm on IRC from a guy living there (before CNN put up pictures with their supercilious reporters’ supposititious concern for the welfare of the public and the actual concern for their ratings). The world heard of Sony’s DRM shennanigans from the blog of a respected technical practitioner, not from acuity-deficient “technology journalists”.

Update: Cam Reilly just touched on this very thing at another Slattery IT seminar today! Slam dunk.

The most important part of the evening was the chats had afterward. My brainwave (nothing of the sort, given the occassion), was that SlatteryIT ask for the attendees’ blogs and distribute them so we can carry on the conversations and create content of our own, and, as users of the seminar, take control of it’s format in its cyberspace extension. To wit.

September 12, 2005

Far konfabulous

Filed under: Cyberspace — Josh Graham @ 4:29 am

Memphis - Day 1

What do you do at 4am local time after 24 hours of travelling across the planet and a few hours of sleep?

After perusing documentation and wondering whether to bug people back home, you start wondering what time it is.

Then you wonder whether Yahoo has a World Time tab like with the weather. They don’t. Bizarre. Anyway…

Then you look at their widget thing that you’ve put off for a long time wondering if that’ll help. Konfabulator is the product.

Not only did it help (using the very nice World Clock Pro), it helped pass an hour or so of checking out some very nicely designed widgets for the desktop.

Oh no, my desktop is starting to look like a — a — *buhm buhm baahhhm* Macintosh!

Added to that I might actually buy an iPod nano while here, I can feel the presence of Jobs controlling my mind…. nooooooooooooooooooooo!

Reckon we could do one for CruiseControl and I’ll drop a line to the boys about one for Jira. Nice for dev teams (probably mostly project managers who won’t have IDE plugins that do the same).

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