Archive for December, 2009

Another contender in the ebook space

31st December 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Singularity Proponent Ray Kurzweil Reinvents the Book, Again | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Another contender in the ebook space.
(tags: ebook)

Some handy tips including useful code snippets for the CSS programmer.

28th December 2009 by eamonn No Comments

CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites – Noupe
Some handy tips including useful code snippets for the CSS programmer. (via @susiewee and @randymatheson on Twitter)
(tags: tutorial reference design code web css)

links for 2009-12-21

21st December 2009 by eamonn 1 Comment

Graphics.com: A Brief History of Grids
A nice overview of how the use of grids has developed over the centuries
(tags: design layout)

Vaadin – thinking of U and I – vaadin.com
An interesting Java web framework
(tags: programming web2.0 library javascript java web ajax)

TiltViewer
My photos viewed by TiltViewer
(tags: my photo)

Scala Class, an online resource to make it easier to learn the Next Big Language

21st December 2009 by eamonn No Comments

I believe that Scala is poised to take off as the successor to Java as the main programming language for programming on the Java virtual machine. However, I have found the online resources for learning the language to be a bit weaker than for some other programming languages, so I set up scalaclass.com where I [...]

An idiom for cleaner pimping of libraries in Scala

19th December 2009 by eamonn No Comments

In dynamic languages like JavaScript and Ruby you can modify existing classes, including system classes, with extra methods. This can be a very handy, if dangerous, technique.
Scala, being a static language does not allow this same technique. But it does allow the use of implicit functions to get the same effect. For [...]

Here is a form that will speak out any English text you type into it.

15th December 2009 by eamonn 1 Comment

Use Google For Text – Webmonkey

You can craft a URL that will take advantage of Google’s web service to do test-to-speech of arbitrary English text like this
http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=some+text+separated+by+plus+signs
This can easily be extended to work in a form. (Note, I found by trial-and-error that the text cannot have more than about 100 characters, so I [...]

Sproutcore, a Rails-like approach to client-side web programming

14th December 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Spoutcore
A different approach to creating rich JavaScript/AJAX web apps. The programming and development methodology is basically the same as for Ruby on Rails, though it is all client-side and can work with any Server backend.
(tags: programming web2.0 library design ruby javascript code web ajax css)

Circular BIST with Partial Scan

14th December 2009 by eamonn No Comments

At AT&T Bell Labs in Princeton I worked on this particular type of built-in self-test for chip design. These technologies are now commonplace, but back then it was cutting edge.

Circular BIST with Partial Scan
My first published paper
(tags: my)

Welcome to IEEE Xplore 2.0: Circular BIST with partial scan
Better link for my paper
(tags: my)

An Agile Approach

13th December 2009 by eamonn No Comments

m-pulse / a cooltown magazine / An Agile Approach: HP Labs' Jim Rowson on Developing and Deploying for Device Ensembles
This is about one of the first projects I worked on in HP labs. The original URL is long gone, but luckily it is still there in the wayback machine.
(tags: me pervasive hp)

The research I did in my first job out of college

9th December 2009 by eamonn No Comments

A Fast Signature Simulation Tool for Built-In Self-Testing Circuits
This is paper came out of a research team that I worked with in London.
(tags: my)

High-Level CAD for Interactive Layout and Design
This was the research project that I worked on for several years in London,
(tags: my)

Building iPhone web apps that look like native apps

8th December 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Full text of a draft O'Reilly book on building web apps for the iPhone.
(tags: programming tutorial reference javascript web css books mobile)

iPhone Development: 12 Tips To Get You Started [HTML & XHTML Tutorials]
How to create web apps that use iPhone-specific capabilities, so that they act more like native [...]

Mandarin Chinese class I plan to take

6th December 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Survival Mandarin for Business & Travel (Part I) : San Francisco State University : Mandarin Chinese Language Classes : Summer Program : College of Extended Learning
I am planning on taking this class
(tags: mandarin language)