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| Archived Since: | April 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Scripting News: HTML 5 localStorage demo.
One of the neatest features in HTML 5 is localStorage. It lets an app store as much as 5MB of data on the local machine. I wanted to understand how it works so I wrote a demo. http://scripting.com/misc/localStorageDemo.html View source if you want to see how it works. Hope you find it useful. :-)
Scripting News: Have you met your users?
Last summer I went back to Madison, and part of the trip was a tour of the Computer Science building, where I had been a graduate student many years ago. The building had changed in many ways, and in others, not at all. 1. The outside was exactly the same. 2. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Why Windows lost to Mac.
FIrst, understand that this is a blog post, a highly prejudiced thing, completely determined by one self-important person's experiences. I'm a hypocrite too. :-) Anyway, I lived through this. I was a Windows user in 2005, when I had to get a Mac because I was supporting people who used my OPML Editor app on the Mac, as well as Windows. Show More Summary
Programming lesson: Don't slog away at the end of the day.
Here's one of the fundamental rules of programming. You're at the end of your day, you've gotten a lot of stuff done, and you have one more thing to get right before the feature is complete, and you're searching for the answer, trying...Show More Summary
A programmer: Why you should learn to code.
I actually do think people should learn to code, at least a little -- just as you learn a little chemistry, biology and math in school. Learning how to program is imho easier than those things, but then I have a natural ability to program, so what do I know. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Good software design is ageless.
A comment from Michael Markman: "I'm an older dog than Dave Winer -- by about a decade. And I've managed to learn this new trick: move one finger, the pointer moves. Use two fingers and the window scrolls." Necessary recital: I'm 57 and have been developing software since I was 18. He's wrong. Show More Summary
Thread: We're in constant Congress-induced crisis mode in the US.
We're in constant Congress-induced crisis mode in the US. It's gotten so routine, I don't even pay attention anymore. I suspect a lot of other people do the same. I kind of hope the Republicans don't back down, and let the sequester happen, and then the voters may finally see the connection between what they do and what the Congress does. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Watching Marco's Magazine.
I've been watching Marco Arment's publishing venture, called The Magazine, with interest and a little puzzlement. It looks like a high wall around writing, the kind of wall that was natural before publishing got cheap, first with laser...Show More Summary
Scripting News: Era of the big man is over.
This is a basketball story, but not really. There was a time when bigger was better. If you worked at the biggest company you were smarter, more powerful, better looking, knew what was happening. You could see over our heads. But that was then. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Apple arguing with iTself on my iMac.
I just plugged my iPad into my iMac and launched iTunes. A dialog appeared saying there's a new version of iOS for the iPad. Would I like to download and iNstall it. Yes. A few seconds later a dialog appears saying there's a new version of iTunes. Show More Summary
Scripting News: How Vanity Fair led me to a great blog. (Via Pulp Fiction.)
I spent the day in Cambridge yesterday. One of my stops was the Shorenstein Center, where I was interviewed as part of a project to understand the transition of journalism to the Internet. At one point I was asked who were some of my favorite bloggers. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Do you use your own product?
The "Lion" version of the Macintosh operating system removed what was, to me, a very important feature -- the arrows at either end of scrollbars. I found this out when I bought a new laptop, which I'm using now to write this piece, and discovered the omission. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Dinner in Cambridge on Wednesday?
I'll be in Cambridge, MA on Wednesday, staying overnight and am free for dinner, so let's have a meetup!
I posted an item on the Berkman-Thursday list (awkward because this is a Wednesday night event, but it's the people that matter,...Show More Summary
Scripting News: Dear NYC Journo Brain Trust.
I sent this email to some friends yesterday and realized it should probably be a blog post. This idea came in a roundabout way... 1. Google Reader has been sputtering lately. 2. Causing some users to be nervous. 3. They reach out to developers they know who care, including me. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Posterous archive received.
I was able to download my Posterous archive. http://static.scripting.com/dave/daveWinerPosterousArchive.zip I'm busy with other projects, but wanted to be sure I could find this if I find time to move it to another location. I took a brief look inside, and it looks fine. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Tesla v NY Times.
A fascinating conflict is brewing between Elon Musk the founder of Tesla Motors and John Broder, a reporter for the NY Times who reviewed the Tesla Model S. Margaret Sullivan, the NY Times Public editor has a good summary of the dispute, so far. Some obvious observations. 1. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Mac scrollbar woes.
It's been a few months since I got my new iMac and with it was forced to switch to Mountain Lion. I've more or less made my peace with everything except this -- the arrows on the scroll bars are gone. This means what was once an automatic...Show More Summary
Scripting News: Why Rubio looked silly.
Last night Marco Rubio gave the rebuttal to the State of the Union in a studio. He looked silly and uncomfortable before the awkward moment when he reached for the bottle of Poland Spring. That just sealed it. He should have been atShow More Summary
Scripting News: Central Park after the snow.
If you like, there are more pictures of the park after the storm on Flickr.
Questions: Understanding the Dropbox API.
For the sake of argument suppose the developer of a document-based app written in JavaScript running in the browser wanted to open and save files from and to the user's Dropbox folder. What's the best way to do that, given the new APIs that Dropbox has been releasing? I see they have a Chooser. Show More Summary