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DOJO has hit 1.0 and changed a lot of things. So the documentation is still all over the place with examples using old syntax. I am migrating to DOJO from jQuery, so just wanted to get basic dojo.query functionality to work. Specifically, I wanted to highlight alternative table rows. Not easy! At least for a newbie. I had . . . → Read More: DOJO 1.0: Highlighting alternative table rows What could be common between Computational Linguistics and Aerobics? Quite a lot, as it turns out to be. Dance descriptions, while not really in English do have a regular structure and can be thought of as a sub-language with full set of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels. There are basic words of the language (move names), correct ways . . . → Read More: Parsing jumping jacks Since Dave Winer declared Chumby the next breakthrough device, there has been a small flood of people talking about how cool it is and how much they want one. The usual TechMeme effect, I guess. I admit, it is a cute device. I have a black one, which I am hoping will work well as a picture . . . → Read More: Interesting Chumby articles and videos around the web Bee.fm is an internet radio station that allows to stream custom playlists or individual albums. It is similar to pandora.com, but with full manual control over the playlist. It uses open streaming that can be listened to from iTunes as well as from its own flash player. It can be also listened to with Chumby‘s btplay command. To . . . → Read More: Chumby HowTo: Playing internet radio from Bee.fm Pandora.com has just added classical music to their already huge collection. It made my day. I like classical music, but never took enough time to actually figure out my exact preferences or composers. I just recognise familiar or mood pieces when they are played and enjoy them. So now I can put the name of the piece I . . . → Read More: Two thumbs up for Pandora.com’s new classical section I just found my own oldest webpage (handcoded) and my oldest public source code (Java) at once. Archive.org – that has hosted this long-dead memory since 1999 – is just so great. Looking back at it, I realise that I was right in the thick of Internet development: When I just started working with Java, we had to . . . → Read More: Memories, memories Use case Photos are inherently-social event markers. We take pictures to remember an occasion and – often – people who were present with us at that point. While most of the photographs are not looked at more than once or twice, the more popular ones become very important in our history. The same does not happen to other . . . → Read More: Viewfinder Friends – idea for Facebook application Does this look different? If not, you are probably reading this through the RSS feed and can just skip to the next item. Unless, of course the feed is now broken. Then, I really want to know. But for those of you looking at this article on its own website, there has been an upgrade of components. . . . → Read More: WordPress 2.3.1 and other doodads I want to get my parents a digital picture frame. But at the moment I cannot. That’s because I don’t want my somewhat less-technical parents to have to fiddle with memory cards, choosing and transferring photographs or running Vista. My ideal digital picture frame for them would be one sitting in a living room or a bedroom . . . → Read More: Chumby: Digital picture frame for parents and much more Obras de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer – Tomo Primero is a collection of stories in Spanish available with recording and text (both plan and PDF). It was produced by Florida’s Educational Technology Clearinghouse that has a lot more audio/text stories in English in its Lit2Go project. MP3 recordings can be downloaded individually, but nice iTunes . . . → Read More: Spanish read and listen material: Obras de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer |
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