The team from innaworks have officially launched alcheMo, their J2ME to Brew porting solution. This tool will help streamline the mobile development process to support multiple phone platforms through their translator. This will help save companies save mega-bucks in development costs.
Kudos to Stephen and the team for another kick mobile development product!
Another enjoyable webstock mini event. Lots of fun had by all. Nice to see a good turn out by all of the Wellington web companies.
Leigh Blackall’s look at Second life via an education focus was interesting. Maybe we should work on Summer of Code 2.0 Second life island…. Hmmm something to think about 🙂
The Web 2.0 debate was really fun. Mike Brown’s speech and Phil’s heckling were a highlight. ProjectX is part of the Web 2.o conspiracy with our Rankr rating a mention.
Kudo’s to webstock team for running another great event!
We’d like to welcome Paul Gold, who has joined ProjectX as part-time CTO.
Paul has recently began consulting after finishing at Trade Me as their resident database and infrastructure guru. Paul also was a part of last year’s summer of code.
Paul, will post more about himself shortly.
Nahum sent through this link to a post on 100 free CSS resources.
The list includes a number of tools that will help you with your website optimisation.
Enjoy!
I can’t believe I’ve never seen this before! Information Aesthetics is a blog by Andrew Vande Moere from the University of Sydney that highlights examples of fascinating, illuminating, experimental and just plain gorgeous data visualisations on a vast range of topics. There are maps, of course, and everything from social network visualisations and airline infographics to interactive architecture and “human visualisations” (a video of people dancing to demonstrate protein interactions). The projects range from the practical and political to pure art, but it’s always full of inspiring ideas and plenty of eye candy.
I’ve decided to ditch mephisto blog software and go back to wordpress. I want a fully functionality blog software with proper theme support, lots of plugins and WYSIWIG editor. Mephisto was light weight, but a little too immature for our tastes.
The conversion over to wordpress went OK. Only thing left is to import the comments into the system. We’re using the mandigo theme which fits in with the new ProjectX style.
FYI: If you’re looking to migrate / import into wordpress from mephisto, you’ll need to use the RSS2 importer. But first you’ll need to convert the atom feed to RSS2. (Note it can only handle about 2000 lines at a time) Warning it can only import posts. Comments you’ll have to figure out yourself !
From Scoble’s blog….
(It was only a matter of time before someone figured out how to do this)
Ajaxian has just post about Spyjax a tool that can search your browser history. It works by using javascript to check if you have visited a site by analysing CSS colours!
“It only allows a site to test a predefined list of URLs to see if you have visited any of them. It’s like the card game “go fish”, you can’t see the players cards but you can ask them if they have any particular card. Most likely the way this technology would be used is to examine a list of competing URLs.”
I wonder how long spam marketers and blackhat seo’s have been using this technique???
So how to do stop it ???
Turn off javscript (This is bad no more ajax goodness) or in Firefox uncheck the “Remember visited pages” checkbox (This is also a pain as you’ll lose the autosuggestion of all your visited sites.)
