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Rick James - www.RickJames.com - The
Internet Home of The King of Funk...Rick
James

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James 08/07/2004 02:09 PM
#20 Rick James .. original

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More AIM Goodness

More AIM Goodness 12/26/2002 11:04 PM
Someone IM'd me tonight, and there was a giant advertisement along the side of the IM window. For HGTV. Ick....

Oh my goodness

Oh my goodness 06/30/2004 07:40 PM

I hate it when two friends get involved in lawsuits.

So Affinity Engines - has sued Google (about Orkut.)

I am personally involved with both these companies - so I will refrain from direct comment except - "I hate fucking lawyers who make a living from suing people."
Now that's not to say that AE doesn't have the right to - and needed to - do what they did, but man oh man. What a bummer.

Both companies are members of the FOAFnet.

Thank Goodness He Isn’t Blue

Thank Goodness He Isn’t Blue 06/30/2004 09:25 PM
Found on eBay is this packaged VOTC 12” Boba Fett. Seeing the packaging lay out should be enough of a pleasure, but knowing that the figure’s outfit will in fact be the proper gray as opposed to the horrible blue shown on the prototype featured on Hasbro’s site is clearly going to cause the world’s largest sigh of relief. It looks like the toy makers have finally created the definitive large sized Boba… It only took 26 years!

DHTML Goodness

DHTML Goodness 10/28/2003 11:08 PM

I've been working on implementing incremental repainting in Safari. With the exception of some hacks that I threw in for overflow:hidden elements, Safari 1.0 will repaint the entire visible area of a Web page whenever any object changes size. (Turn on paint flashing using Quartz debug and you'll see what I mean.)
This is obviously a big problem for DHTML sites.

Anyway, I've fixed this problem in my own build (which makes DHTML easily 5-10 times faster for affected pages), and now I'm looking for tests. What I'm looking for are any pages/tests you've got that do really cool dynamic stuff with DHTML and CSS. I want to know about pages that mostly work in Safari now. The point of this exercise is not to hear about current DHTML bugs, but to make sure I haven't regressed any behavior, so please stay on topic.

Post links to cool demos that do anything from dynamically changing clip to sliding elements around on screen to animating using all sorts of different techniques (changing margins, position, overflow, background, etc.).

some perl goodness

some perl goodness 12/10/2003 10:21 AM
SVK looks like a very interesting revision control system, based on svn and written in perl, I`m definitively going...

For Goodness Sake

For Goodness Sake 06/10/2004 12:49 PM
Last night I attended a Sake tasting event at a private home. Most of my prior experience has been at sushi bars like Myake's where make you stand on your chair and say something that sounds like "itchy knees, scratchy...

Goodness abounds

Goodness abounds 03/29/2005 01:50 AM
Here are some things that happened lately that are good:

Reissues of two previously unavailable early Mountain Goats albums, Zopilote Machine and Nothing For Juice, are now available. These are great if you are already tuned in to John Darnielle's taut no-fi frequency; if not, last year's We Shall All Be Healed remains the best intro. (Though if you go download "Sinaloan Milk Snake Song" you just might end up disagreeing with me and thinking that those older albums make a plenty fine intro, too.) A new album, The Sunset Tree, looms next month as well.

JD Lasica and Marc Canter, working with the Internet Archive, have opened the doors on their Ourmedia project -- free hosting for video and audio files. I'm looking forward to playing with it.

Google Maps: It's just really good. And you know, what's good about it isn't exactly the same as what's cool about it. I mean, it's fun to use the "Ajax"-powe red thingies and slide the map around by grabbing it. But what makes it where I go now when I need to find something is that it's much easier to read than the older services -- which I assume will now frantically scramble to catch up. (It also claims not to work in my Opera browser, but in fact works just fine -- though the scrolling is smoother in Firefox.)

Functiony goodness

Functiony goodness 07/18/2004 10:43 AM
Well, the translator can now handle functions without parameters. Whee! That means: def bar(): a = 3 print "Foo" print a a = 2 b = 3 if a: print a, b c = a + b print c a.foo = c d = a.foo print d bar() prints 2 3 5 5 Foo 3 as it ought to. (Well, OK, except for the whole "a.foo is an error" thing...) I've uploaded the updated translator. After lunch, it's time for positional and keyword parameters. This may be slow, since I'm doing hash lookups for all the locals, where Python uses...

Gzipped for Goodness

Gzipped for Goodness 12/03/2002 11:46 AM

I read dive into mark everyday, as well as Textism. The both of them really openend my eyes to something I've never heard of before: gzip encoding your pages for web browsers, to make them faster. This is such a cool idea, and unbeknownst to me, has been around for a while. Over at Textism he points out how to do this with php. Just put <?php ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); ?> at the top of your .php documents before your doc type declaration. So I emplemented it and it took all of about 20 minutes. Gzip-compressing my pages makes them 1/3 of their original size. AWESOME! You can check to see if your site is gzip-compressed here.

I find it odd how this has been around for so long, yet not that many people are using it. Not that many people even know about it! What I want to know is, are there any drawbacks to gzipping your pages??? It doesn't seem like there could be. So why don't big sites like cnn.com, or yahoo do it? Does anyone have an answer?

More ShapeShifting Goodness

More ShapeShifting Goodness 01/22/2004 02:28 AM
A quick note to point you over to ShapeShifter for version 1.1. This version adds several new text color features...

20 inches of OLED goodness!

20 inches of OLED goodness! 03/19/2003 10:46 PM

Mmmm, article goodness

Mmmm, article goodness 04/15/2004 10:16 PM
Looks like the article on writing a compiler that targets Parrot has hit OnLamp. Probably worth taking a look....

Semantic Web Extreme Goodness

Semantic Web Extreme Goodness 12/07/2003 09:24 AM

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Goodness Gracious, Goodyear!

Goodness Gracious, Goodyear! 02/05/2005 10:18 PM
Investment bank analyst downgrades tire maker, and shares drop. Should investors really listen to analysts?

A Voice of Inspiration: Goodness

A Voice of Inspiration: Goodness 05/31/2004 02:30 AM
Goodness .. Comments

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moments of kungfu goodness

moments of kungfu goodness 06/10/2004 11:18 AM
I've danced in latin clubs taken tours of orange groves drank absenthe with the finest touched magic on mirrors while...

Much bleary eyed geeky goodness!

Much bleary eyed geeky goodness! 07/26/2004 10:38 AM
The new political Technorati has been launched! And just to double wow you................

Recent Apt-Gettable Goodness From Ark,
Conectiva

Recent Apt-Gettable Goodness From Ark,
Conectiva 01/25/2004 03:02 PM

iPod Goodness And Apple Idiocy

iPod Goodness And Apple Idiocy 04/18/2005 04:26 AM

By Red Wolf

More Search Result Comparison Goodness

More Search Result Comparison Goodness 06/17/2005 07:21 PM
People seem to like those sites where you can compare the results from two different search engines, so here's another one that you can use to compare results from Yahoo...

Daypop And Word-Bursty Goodness

Daypop And Word-Bursty Goodness 03/13/2003 10:26 AM

Steven's Been Tracking Lots of RSS
Goodness

Steven's Been Tracking Lots of RSS
Goodness 04/25/2004 11:19 PM
Tara Adds a Few to the Fray

"Tara at Research Buzz mentions a few more universities and libraries that are trying out RSS.

UC Berkeley, the University of Arizona, and The Minnesota Public Library. Those Minnesotans really have their RSS and blogging shoes on. Good for them." [Library Stuff]

Steven's been on a real roll while I was gone, so I hope you're reading Library Stuff daily!

"wrote about"

"wrote about" 11/18/2003 03:32 AM

"wrote"

"wrote" 06/05/2004 09:30 PM

Bush's iPod filled with infringing
goodness

Bush's iPod filled with infringing
goodness 04/13/2005 11:50 AM
Cory Doctorow: President Bush has a treasured iPod full of songs that were decanted into it by a media strategist. This makes him: a downloader, an INDUCEr, a Darknet user and an infringer. Who'd a figgered the prez for a copyfighter?

The president also has an eclectic mix of songs downloaded into his iPod from Mark McKinnon, a biking buddy and his chief media strategist in the 2004 campaign. Among them are "Circle Back" by John Hiatt, "(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care" by Joni Mitchell and "My Sharona," the 1970s song by The Knack that Joe Levy, a deputy managing editor in charge of music coverage at Rolling Stone, cheerfully branded "suggestive if not outright filthy" in an interview last week.

Link (Thanks, Jason)

Update: To forestall more email on this subject: please read the quotation from the article reproduced above, with special attention to the boldfaced section. While the article states that Bush has a staffer load his iPod from the iTunes Music Store, it also says that he has his friend download music to it from his personal collection. The former, obviously, is not particularly radical, but the latter is exactly the kind of behavior the music industry characterizes as theft.

"wrote about the rebranding"

"wrote about the rebranding" 02/10/2004 09:26 PM

Who wrote Sasser--and why?

Who wrote Sasser--and why? 05/09/2004 07:59 PM
ZDNet May 10 2004 0:36AM GMT

Murder She Wrote

Murder She Wrote 06/23/2004 06:23 AM

Halley wri tes:

Blog Murder

Is there a reason Dave Winer just killed 3000 blogs -- like this one (Tom Matrullo's) and this one (Dean Landsman's) and this one (Craig's Booknotes)-- and no one, including Slashdot has the balls to write about it?!

At least he's taken the gloves off -- if you thought he was a cuddly teddy bear friend of all bloggers -- you might want to rethink that.

then she added later:

And if you want to take the time to read what I wrote -- I never called anyone a "murderer" as some have claimed -- and my question was why no one else had written about it.

Halley obviously has some harsh feelings against Dave, feelings that distorts her view on anything Dave does.  I think it is all right for a person to not like another person.  But I think she should have just said so instead of practically calling Dave a murderer on flimsy evidences and then, instead of apologizing, resort to playing word games.

To Both Sides of Weblogs.com Conflict

I have a problem understanding people who routinely go beyond the needs of momentary emotional ranting to shred another person's reputation in public.  Over and over, they portray the focus of their anger as the ultimate evil.  What are they trying to accomplish?  If they are successful, then the person will be ruined professionally and shunned socially.  Is that really what they want?

If I could give them an advice, it is this:

If you are chasing, you better be ready to catch.

Who Wrote Linux?

Who Wrote Linux? 07/06/2004 03:19 PM

Source code: String of ASCII or Tree of
Goodness?

Source code: String of ASCII or Tree of
Goodness? 02/01/2005 10:12 PM

I am a big fan of tools which hide the underlying complexities of code from developers. I argue constantly with a developer collegue of mine about this. He advocates source code level control. I want to ditch source code all together. It becomes too messy even with source control tools and tracking systems. I've seen RAD environments try to incorporate Flowcharting instead of code. This worked to an extent, but was never robust enough.

The development tools which came from NEXT and are now part of Mac OS X begin to create a "building" block style of framework. Users still create code, but then items in the GUI are wired together simply by dragging and dropping icons that represent objects, adapters and other abstractions of the underlying code. This is powerful. What's needed here is the visual tools to edit and create source code via similar "blocks" and then those block can be reused and refactored as code is developed.

I think may of the advances in programming will not come into being until operating systems begin to embrace Virtual Reality and 3D spaces are part of their interfaces. 2D representations of code are usable, but in order to work quickly, developers will need a 3D space in which to operate. Source code is structured, but in multiple dimensions, and layers of code exist on different planes. More advanced visualization equipment and OSes are needed before some advances can begin.

Source code as structure rathe than text … bring it on

Jon Udell blogs about The Deep Structure of Code. Instead of treating source code as a boring old text file, treat it as a data structure. Then, you can render it however you like it. I was captivated by this idea when I read this 2003 James Gosling interview about Jackpot.

Gosling explained that treating programs as structures lets you perform powerful refactorings:

It’s a very different world when a program is an algebraic structure rather than a bag of characters, when you can actually do algebra on programs rather than just swizzling characters around. A lot of things become possible … If you look at any of the refactoring books, most of those refactoring actions become much more straightforward, in ways that are fairly deep.

In addition, he illustrated how views can be flexible:

[O]nce it’s not text, all of a sudden you can display it in really interesting ways … You can, for example, turn the square root function into the obvious mathematical notation. You can turn the identifier theta into the Greek letter theta. You can turn division into the horizontal bar with numbers stacked. And we’ve done experiments with wackier things, such as trying to generate real time flow charts.

Software developers, we need to eat our own dog food. Through the magic of software, we’ve allowed end-users to view and manipulate databases in countless ways. A single corporate database might be viewed and edited via any number of command-line interfaces, charts, text reports, and web pages. But how about source code? Just a glorified text editor will do, mate.

Eclipse and Idea advance the idea somewhat. They do treat code as structure and are much more powerful on the refactoring side. Also, plugins are available that manipulate this structure to render code as UML. But there is so much more to go.

In terms of manipulation, you should be able to manipulate code like a GUI — altering the source code text of an attribute performs a rename refactoring; dragging one class into another makes it an inner class.

In terms of display, data structures could be represented visually (and manipulated that way too). For instance, a multi-dimensional array could be depicted as a filled-in table. This view would be especially useful during debugging. Lines between words could be shown to indicate relationships. These views don’t all have to be on; the point is to make them flexible, in much the same way as systems for experts in other domains. That’s the magic of software, and something you can’t do with paper: infinite representations of the same data; the right combination chosen based on the user’s disposition and situational needs.

As a side note, the idea of representing the code in XML is actually a non-issue. As Jon Udell points out, programmers themselves don’t have to touch the underlying structure, and Eclipse/Idea are living proof.

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UN wrote to US about Iraq deaths

UN wrote to US about Iraq deaths 05/12/2004 06:53 AM
The UN repeatedly asked coalition forces to explain deaths in custody in Iraq, the BBC learns.

" this piece I wrote on Fargo"

" this piece I wrote on Fargo" 06/18/2004 11:21 AM

Some notes on the "Who wrote Linux"
kerfuffle

Some notes on the "Who wrote Linux"
kerfuffle 05/20/2004 10:06 AM
The history of Unix and its various children and grandchildren has been in the news recently as a result of a book from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. Since I was involved in part of this history, I feel I have an obligation to set the record straight and correct some extremely serious errors.

How We Wrote the Template Toolkit Book
...

How We Wrote the Template Toolkit Book
... 02/10/2004 02:59 AM
When Dave Cross, Andy Wardley, and Darren Chamberlain got together to write the Per l Template Toolkit book, they decided to write it in Plain Old Documentation. Dave shows us how the Template Toolkit itself transformed that for publication.

Stairway to Heaven, as Schubert wrote it

Stairway to Heaven, as Schubert wrote it 08/12/2004 04:21 AM
Stairway To Heaven: variations on a theme .. The Stairway Suite

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"Some notes on the "Who wrote Linux"
Kerfuffle"

"Some notes on the "Who wrote Linux"
Kerfuffle" 05/23/2004 09:31 AM

The founder of the GNU-Darwin project
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The founder of the GNU-Darwin project
wrote an int ... 11/19/2003 08:07 PM

The founder of the GNU-Darwin project wrote an interesting editorial on Apple and open source today. I really appreciate that the GNU-Darwin project played a role in helping to make the APSL a better open source license.

In my opinion, Apple has made a lot of good progress (such as opening up Darwin, WebCore, and the Objective-C runtime under the APSL) but I do hope they'll go further and open up Cocoa under the APSL. Frequently when programming in Cocoa I remember that I have no significant rights since everything is still, as all of the Cocoa header files simply say, "Copyright 2003 Apple Computer. All Rights Reserved". I didn't use to care about that. Open source helped me realize that I can have rights, too. Apple's been gracious so far, I hope they continue to be. It's played a significant role in me buying and evangelizing Apple products.

9:06 PM | steve jenson

'I wrote it in bed with my computer on a
cookie sheet'

'I wrote it in bed with my computer on a
cookie sheet' 05/15/2004 08:44 AM
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