Thursday, April 1, 2010

Logitech mouse problems with 10.6.3

Apparently, I'm not the only one having problems with my Logitech mouse and Mac OS X 10.6.3.  I just recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and immediately updated to 10.6.3 so I can't comment on previous version.  With LCC 3.2, I find the mouse almost unusable.  It doesn't track well and the cursor mysteriously jumps across the screen from time to time.  Somewhere on the web, I read that there's an issue with USB tracking frequency.  My solution was to uninstall LCC and use USB Overdrive to control the mouse.  It seems to work much better now.  Other people are recommending SteerMouse.  Everyone hates LCC.  Here are a couple of links with more info:

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Friday, March 26, 2010

How to Make an HTML5 iPhone App

I’ll show you how to create an offline HTML5 iPhone application. More specifically, I’ll walk you through the process of building a Tetris game.

http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/html5-iphone-app/

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Cassandra in action

http://cassandra.apache.org/
> The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-> generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully > distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.
>
> Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, and is now developed > by Apache committers and contributors from many companies.
>

Projects using Cassandra:
http://spyced.blogspot.com/2010/03/cassandra-in-action.html

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Friday, March 19, 2010

clj-native: C FFI for Clojure

Enlive tutorial

HTML scraping and templating in Clojure:

http://github.com/swannodette/enlive-tutorial

Enlive presents a different approach from the more popular templating solutions:

  • Code and markup are completely separate.
  • You get to use CSS
 like syntax to manipulate HTML.
  • Template inheritance isn’t some fancy trick, it’s just function composition.
  • You have access to the full power of Clojure to manipulate your templates (yes, macros!).
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    Tufte on Windows Phone 7 Series (WP7S) interface design

    The WP7S layout and typography have a looseness found in marketing, an inappropriate metaphor for a handheld information and communication device. In the splashy panoramas, there are hints of design-by-focus-group (which is like hiring temps as your design consultants). Instead of impressing focus groups, designers should do a thought experiment: Imagine what Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive would have to say about your interface.

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