Recently in Programming Category
I've renamed my ITP thesis project Polarizr... since PolarWeb just sounds... stupid. The website and Firefox extension will be made public [well, it will be in exclusive, invite-only alpha] this weekend.
I've been working on a couple link visualizations for the browsing history network dashboard section/functionality... here's a sneak peak:
I'm not sure if the original PolarFox extension will be ready by next Wednesday May the 3rd (Has my 2 years at ITP gone by this fast? Crazy), though I will continue development [albeit slowly, gotta pay rent].
Check out the slides for my final Thesis Class presentation [with Nick Law].
Been playing with NLP for a number of projects. The Perl interface to WordNet is a godsend.
Jane Oh, Chris Kairalla, and I are developing a location-based system documenting and displaying emotional response and stimulus. The project is multi-faceted, involving a cell-phone application, wearable input and display, screen-based display, and server-side locating software. Currently, we are focusing on one emotion—gratitude, as determined by facial flush response, or temperature changes in the face. Location will be determined by cell-tower ID and signal strength, as gleaned by the mobile app and server-side logic. We are developing the client app in Series60 Python, implementing the Location api. The tower info will be correlated to both user-inputed geo-data and the FCC supplied database (link). Data will be transfered to the cell-phone via bluetooth, and uploaded to the server. Subjects will also be encouraged to take relevant pictures, and hopefully video for the screen-based informatics display.
Pertinent online resources are archived here.
Wish I had this article 2 weeks ago... snakes on a plane. I really can't explain my relationship with JSP/Servlets/Ajax in words, it's just that profound, inexplicable. Object-oriented Java bastardized with semi-strict JSP scripting and Javascript... garbage. Still can't justify working in any of the Ajax frameworks out there — they all just seem so limited — in the same way that RubyOnRails is limited.
Google Blogoscoped blogged a list of 9 ways to misunderstand web standards, throwing light on some good points. Some of the issues are pretty basic, obvious, but the use of !important is news to me. Might solve a few common browser rendering problems that seem to befall so many sites.
I've recently been developing in JSP/EJB/Java with AJAX (all pulling from MySQL), and have to say, I really like it. Tough to get a handle on at first, the framework has proved to be super powerful. I find the JSP scripting is complimented nicely by Java. Will definately get more projects going with this toolset in the future.
Its good to see that some people are thinking critically about web 2.0 technologies, namely AJAX. ThinkVitamin throws up a good read on the pitfalls presented by irresponsible use of AJAX.
