Sam’s random musings

If people didn’t buy crap from spammers do you think they might do some other kind of annoying crap. The only reason people SPAM is because people buy the stuff. Just stop!!!

Wez Furlong’s Blog: PHP Objective-C Bridge: “

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p> Wez Furlong has posted an example showing a cool little tool that he’s whipped up that looks to bridge the gap between PHP and the Objective-C runtime.

Ok now this is coolness

(Via PHPDeveloper.org.)

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p>PopBox! - A Javascript Image Magnifier: “

WebAppers has a nice post about a JavaScript image magnifier called PopBox!:

<blockquote><p>PopBox is an image magnification javascript solution for dynamically moving and resizing images on your web page. Javascript? Yes - I know it’s nothing new and that you’ve been able to move and resize things in Javascript for years, but only now is there a prepackaged solution that makes it as easy as 3 lines of HTML without knowing a lick about positioning!</p></blockquote>

nice simple for zooming up a little image to big,

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

PagePacker Open-Sourced: “

I am celebrating the arrival of Mac OS X 10.5 by making the source code to PagePacker available. Here is the compiled application.

Don’t know what PagePacker is? Check this posting.

This is cool app to use to make paper GTD and calendars and stuff, but the nice thing is the source is a great little learning tool for Cocoa

(Via Big Nerd Ranch Weblog.)

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p>New UI library for Prototype in the works: “

Sébastien Gruhier, author of the VERY cool Prototype Window class has started a new initiative to build a complimentary UI library for Prototype. Accompanied by Samuel Lebeau, Juriy Zaytsev and Vincent Le Moign, the team aims to build easy to implement UI components that will enhance the user experience in web applications.

<blockquote><p>At the beginning of the project, it was only a full rewrite of Prototype Window but it became quickly a UI library based on <a href="http://prototypejs.org/">Prototype 1.6</a> and <a href="http://script.aculo.us/">script.aculo.us 1.8</a> to include all my previous components like <a href="http://prototype-carousel.xilinus.com/">Prototype Carousel</a> ….</p></blockquote>
<p>The current version is still in early stages but already provides some nice components:</p>
<ul>
<li>window
<ul>
<li>skinnable</li>
<li>shadowing system independent from window and skinnable</li>
<li>div based</li>
<li>resizable from all borders and corners</li>
<li>custom buttons</li>
<li>Dialogs (like it’s done in <span class="caps">PWC</span>) are not yet implemented but will be done soon</li>
</ul>

• carousel: only HTML content (no Ajax content)
• dock (experimental)
• shadow: a simple class to add shadow on any element with a absolute position.

<p>Full details of the project can be found on <a href="http://blog.xilinus.com/2007/11/4/prototype-ui-beta-version-pwc-reloaded">Sébastien’s blog</a>.

This looks like a great start for those of us who like to use stuff that just works

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

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p>Hoovaloo:: “

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p>Top Gear reviews a really, really, really small car.

Lance and Erin’s new dingy???

(Via Dangerousmeta.)