Category Archives: Dev
Project Idea: Rasterbator in Processing or Java
I looked through the code for the awesome Rasterbator, and I think it could be pretty easily converted to Java/Processing.
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Judge Droid lays down the law
I couldn’t help it. I got excited about Silent Night and Droid Tracks, and then remembered how much I love Locale. I had to do this, and the android scripting environment made it too easy. Here comes Judge Droid – he makes your phone obey the rules.
Android Scripting Environment is heating up
The Android Scripting Environment is to the Android phone as Greasemonkey is to Firefox. It’s a simple place to do quick hacks for your phone without having to build a full plugin or application. Two cool scripts that just got released are Silent Night and Droid Track.
Project Idea: Context Free or Processing Header Plugin for WordPress
An iteration or so of the website ago I hacked in a random art generator into the background of the title of my website using ContextFree.js by Aza Raskin. It was a cool little hack, but what would be really nice is to make it shareable. I’d like a WordPress Plugin that finds the heading [...]
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How to show WordPress page hierarchies
Got a request for help from some the Eyebeam list.1 The folks organizing the Urban Wilderness Action Center for the international Electrosmog festival2 wanted some usability help. Navigating between subpages of their projects was too confusing. If you like the way the sub pages are listed out on, say, the Berlin Micro-Turf Expedition – here [...]
The Magic Ruby vs the Url of Excel: a short story with long code
Once there was a hacker who needed to rescue a beautiful princess from her prison on a creaking ship moored in the middle of the sky. He made it onto the noisy old ship, slipped past the guards and tiptoed down the swaying halls to the room where she wept, chained to an excel spreadsheet.
Installing the Android Developer Tools for Eclipse
If you’re trying to install the Android Developer Tools on Ubuntu and it keeps failing on a strange error: An error occurred while installing the items session context was:(profile=PlatformProfile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine.phases.Install, operand=null –> [R]org.eclipse.ant.ui 3.4.1.v20090901_r351, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.actions.InstallBundleAction). The artifact file for osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.ant.ui,3.4.1.v20090901_r351 was not found. Here’s your solution: <br /> sudo apt-get install eclipse-pde<br /> Worked for [...]
LibraryDroid tracks your books
Here’s me: I have an android phone, I can program, I use LibraryThing for tracking my books. Here’s how those things come together.
Automated Virtue