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Comment on tablets by pimaster

pimaster — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:09:27 +0000

I’ve had my ipaq 5965 for a few years now and has definitely been useful since I got wifi in my house.
I was mostly using it for taking notes and as a GPS, occasionally playing bubble breaker to pass some time.
Now I can answer question rather quickly by just googling them. I can watch youtube videos whilst wandering around the house. I can make calls with skype. I wish I could find a way to get some sort of calendaring on it that doesn’t depend on a net connection just to check.

The n900 seems an interesting combination of phone and tablet.
The hard part is that I would love a device that has a slightly bigger display area, maybe approaching the 6″ mark but when you get that high, you lose the ability to put it in your pocket. The clam design on the MS device might enable this larger area whilst keeping the device small.

Having used a virtual keyboard, I want to try a device with a small keyboard. I don’t want it to be the main form of input, but sometimes blocks of text are required.

Comment on Free JavaScript book. by Lucien’s Techie Blog » TwitCode Challenge, the second

Lucien’s Techie Blog » TwitCode Challenge, the second — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:38:58 +0000

[...] challenge is much like the first one, but this time I have made jQuery available. I’ve also changed the structure of the target [...]

Comment on The Winner by Mark

Mark — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:52:30 +0000

Pig latin is the greatest

Comment on The Winner by pimaster

pimaster — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:14:46 +0000

pwned by the typewriter code.

Comment on The Winner by lucien

lucien — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:25:32 +0000

ROFL. Think you might be right. Fixed the link now so it points to the online version, not my test version on localhost

Comment on The Winner by zooba

zooba — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:25:20 +0000

Um… I have a feeling that link isn’t going to work for anyone besides you…

Comment on Free JavaScript book. by lucien

lucien — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:59:44 +0000

We have three entrants so far

All worthy. Two were sent via Twitter, and the 3rd via Facebook, but it met the criteria of *being able* to be sent via Twitter, so I accepted it (and since it was from a good friend )

4 days to go. How many more scripts?

If there is not too many, I’ll post them al online once it’s done.

Comment on Free JavaScript book. by pimaster

pimaster — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:24:12 +0000

So here was my first attempt that I’ve given up on:
s=v().innerHTML.split(” “);r=”";for(i=0;i

At first the colours were randomly chosen, but I tried to shorten it.

The next attempt:
v().position=’relative’;t=0;l=0;function m(){v().top=t+a()+’px’;v().left=l+a()+’px’;setTimeout(‘m()’, 200);}function a(){return Math.floor(Math.random()*3)-2;}m();function v(){return document.getElementsByTagName(‘p’)[0].style;}

Comment on Free JavaScript book. by lucien

lucien — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:26:25 +0000

This is what I posted on twitter as an example… e=this.document.getElementsByTagName(‘p’)[0].firstChild;e.data=e.data.replace(/m/gi,’#JS’);
It weight in at only 96 characters, *and* it already contains the #JS tag so it can be found. As to whether it’s “interesting”…

Comment on Free JavaScript book. by pimaster

pimaster — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:21:44 +0000

grrrr.
Currently at 217 chars for something that looks interesting.
My biggest problem is by the time I get the element, and loop over content, I’m already at 143 chars.