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techie stuff:
shameless plug:
24th may 2006
the powerbook prank
"it all started with an ebay auction for a new g4 powerbook..."
one of the funniest things i've read for a long while. it's a lllooonnngggg read - especially for the t'internet as, as we all know, none of us can be bothered to read more than three paragraphs nowadays - but i read it from beginning to end, and it really is worth it.
just hope that everything is ok with regards to point 3 on the final page. oneplayer salutes you, jeff.
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/05/24/the-p...
19th may 2006
oh. great.
so, sony have announced that the price of the "proper" ps3 in the uk will be a whopping £425! yes, £425. £425. can you believe it? £425?
again, we (we in the uk) are being asked to pay more than the us are expected to pay for theirs, and more than the europeans (huh?) are expected to pay for their boxes. in fact, we're being asked to pay £109 more than the us. and, perhaps more importantly, we must pay £146 more than the premium xbox. is it just me, or have sony been getting really good at making themselves unpopular over the last twelve months? and this is from a sony freak.
of course, they are using the "it does play blu-ray discs y'know?" card, which - i guess - is fair enough, but such a claim will only benefit those people who wanted to buy a hd-player pretty soon, as well as a games console (i admit, "those people" includes me). but, obviously the important market for the ps3 are the gamers, the game console owners, who surely are going to find £425 (did i say it's gonna be £425?) a tad... steep. and let's not forget the thousands and thousands of under-18 year olds who own ps2's, and maybe a psp, who are expecting a ps3 for christmas. i'd hate to be one of those parents this year.
and can you imagine if it doesn't live up to the hype?
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/05/19/oh-gr...
10th may 2006
have you tween this!?
philippe maegerman from belgium has created an amazing motion tween library - yeah, as in flash's motion tweens - completely in javascript that is really worth a look. the documentation and examples are superb, and it looks so simple.
whenever i see things like this nowadays i always think back to how it used to be. anyone remember brent gustafson's assembler.org? i know it's still there, but i mean the black one that had several beautiful javascript experiments, using coloured atari style blocks, at the beginning of the century? that was my favourite site for years, and probably still is. i spent so much time (excuse me brent) hacking around that code, and learnt so much about javascript, but creating those types of effects was so complex and, often, very difficult. you needed a masters degree in mathematics.
nowadays of course, it's pretty much all done for you. what with scriptaculous and maegerman's motion tween engine (and prototype of course), you call a few lines of other people's code, and it's all done for you. i'm not bitter by the way - i think it's brilliant (for a start, the testing has been done for you). however, i am glad that i attacked javascript in the late 90s early 2000s as i think a lot of developers today know how to embed scriptaculous and make a div magically appear, but would struggle if they were just asked to do something dirty like quickly validate a form or create a date object for example. also, i fell in love with javascript, and many today miss out on that. ahh, the walks on the beach with flanagan's definitive guide; watching the sunset with the pocket reference; sharing a private joke with a print out of gustafson's assembler source code; those where the days my friend.
- related:
- blog,
- javascript,
- web dev
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/05/10/have-...
9th may 2006
so there we have it
thanks sony. in summary:
- the 500 euro ps3 is pretty rubbish. well, not rubbish, but y'know what i mean.
- the 600 euro one isn't rubbish, but it's 600 euros.
- the not-rubbish one will have hdmi, wifi, a card reader and a 60gb hard drive.
- the rubbish one... won't.
- they haven't messed with the controller design. if it ain't broken...
- controller has x-y-z, pitch, roll, yaw and lateral motion detection, as well as bluetooth.
- it'll probably still use that stoopid spider man font.
- it'll probably look like this.
still can't wait. still. can't. wait.
- related:
- gadgets
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/05/09/so-th...
5th may 2006
and i think to myself...
... what a wonderful world. and stuff.
"This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet."
- related:
- blog
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/05/05/and-i...
4th may 2006
next gen php frameworks
nice little round up of 5 of the best next gen php frameworks over at the web 2.0 dev.
it briefly discusses symfony, cakephp, zend, agavi and the horribly titled php on trax.
apparently they'll make you "want to create apps just for the hell of it". gosh.
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/05/04/next-...