AJAX

Posted by Trejkaz Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:14:00 GMT

Using AJAX to show comments inline is pretty cool, but I still think the next step is receiving comments from other users in real-time using HTTP pushes.

Of course, it would have to play a little tune for each comment which comes in. That way, you could be distracted from work in real time and if more sounds play closer together, they could have it change the pitch or play little compound tunes.

Then eventually, you end up building a Meteos-like music score if you get enough comments. The goal is then to see how many monkeys you need on keyboards, to generate enough of the right tunes to make the complete works of Mozart.

I guess it’s just an idea.

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One of Those Mondays

Posted by Trejkaz Mon, 09 May 2005 00:06:00 GMT

Looks like today is set up to be a real gem.

We have a four person office here in Sydney (five if you count the guy who has set up office here but isn’t technically employed by the same company.)

Two of the guys today are in Canberra doing sales/demo stuff

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Telstra Are Stupid

Posted by Trejkaz Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:45:00 GMT

After we sign onto Telstra for our local calls, Telstra tell us to pick up our phone’s handset from a certain Australia Post office. The staff at that particular post office then inform us that they no longer stock phones for Telstra. So why were we told to go to that post office in the first place?

What a load of shit

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RFC 2397 Abuse

Posted by Trejkaz Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:33:00 GMT

This is an entertaining bit of standards abuse which a few Wiki/Weblog users around the place might enjoy.

RFC 2397 defines a URL scheme which can be used to embed various types of data into the URL itself. Amongst other things, this allows you to store images inline in the HTML, which I figure is of particular interest to wiki users, particularly those of you on wikis which can’t store arbitrary images but only link to them. Luckily, I am not in that set of users… but hey, this stuff is still fun.

Here’s an example. Note that the following image will only work with browsers compliant with RFC 2397.

I suppose that since URLs have length limits, the actual amount of image data you can store in a single data URL would be fairly small. More precisely, SGML allows an attribute to be up to 1024 characters in length. You lose 22 characters for the URL prefix, MIME type and encoding information, and the remaining 1002 characters allow you to represent approximately 750 bytes in Base64 encoding. The image just above takes up 604 bytes… colour will cost you.

But given enough patience (and malice) you can cut up any sized image such that it can still be rendered by multiple tags, and not a shred of that data needs to be stored on your own server.

Enjoy.

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Australia Day

Posted by Trejkaz Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:16:00 GMT

One of the wonderful things about having a public holiday right in the middle of the week, is that I’m still in work mode, but I don’t actually have to do real work.

So today I finally nailed the last major bit of CSS tweaking for a while, and this site is more or less ready to be advertised to friends. :-D

Ideally I would still make a logo for the header, but I don’t actually need one at all. Replacing the site icon (favicon.ico) should probably be a priority too, but I really don’t care right now.

But the main thing stalling me is that at present, I have no way to accept anonymous comments. It does look like SnipSnap are implementing something like this in CVS though, as I checked it out a while ago and found myself locked into the Guest account with no way to login. But at least it’s proof that something is at least happening over there. This was before the holidays, too, so maybe now that the holidays are over, work will resume.

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