links for 2007-08-25 
August 24th, 2007
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# Among Britons aged 25-34, women account for 55% of the time this group spends online
# 16% of Britons aged 65+ spend 42 hours per month online - more than any other age group
# More than 75% of 11 year olds have their own TV, games console and mobile
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links for 2007-08-23
August 22nd, 2007
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Good news for web video and flash! This is the same format the iphone uses too which will probably be nice for YouTube.
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online super geek social networking meets big mainstream media. this should be interesting. I’ve been thinking about inviting all my non-geek friends to Twitter and seeing how many use and what their reactions are.
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Now in Philadelphia - Update from the Road
August 22nd, 2007
I’m now in Philly recovering from my cheese steak “wit” onions from Pat’s.
The venue here is rad, it’s in the Franklin Institute Science Museum and the hang out/game zone is in a planetarium where we’re projecting the Flickr feed on the ceiling! We’ve been to Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, DC and Baltimore since my last update. We had a day off in DC where I got to visit an old friend and see the sites. Unfortunately I dropped my camera trying to take a pic of the Whitehouse and broke the lense:( Conspiracy theory I tell ya.
I think so far Pittsburgh had the best scene and the local user group folks took us out for some kick as sandwiches that had coleslaw and fries in them! But presenting in the church in Cincinnati was really cool…and creepy.
See it’s no wonder I’m putting on weight…it’s not all fun and games on the bus let me tell ya!
I finally managed to get my Mac Dock Ajax AIR sample up and online too.
Check out Lee Brimelow’s killer video of the first leg for an idea of what touring on a bus looks like:)
Technorati Tags: onairbustour, cincinnati, pittsburgh, dc, raleigh, baltimore, philadelphia, bus, food, cheesesteak
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Building a Mac Dock like Menu in AIR with Ajax
August 21st, 2007
So I’ve been cruising on the Adobe AIR Bus across the country this summer and I’m the only guy with a PC, well Ben and Lee were back up for a bit but not consistently enough. So Alexei and I thought it be cool to build a Mac dock type menu for AIR using the Nitobi Fisheye Ajax component.
Mac Dock:
I thought it would be a neat demo too since it’s flashy (nice graphics, animation etc…) and we have some new Dreamweaver Extensions coming out soon which makes it accessible to those aren’t yet full blown “Ajax Engineers”.
First off, so we all know what I’m talking about check this little video of it below:
Here’s how to build it (Dreamweaver + Nitobi Style):
- Use the Nitobi Fisheye Component (Dreamweaver Extension) this set ups the Ajax component on the page, and configures the component by setting the properties for display, animation and images:
- Sets up the Declaration:
<ntb :fisheye="" id="myEyeObj" growpercent="200" opendirection="down" expanddirection="center" iconwidth="54">
</ntb><ntb :menuitem="" imagesrc="images/blinklist.png" label="Blinklist" onclick="runWindow('www.blinklist.com');"></ntb>
<ntb :menuitem="" imagesrc="images/blogger.png" label="Blogger" onclick="runWindow('www.blogger.com');"></ntb>
…You get the idea, this repeats for all the menu items.
- Includes the script and CSS
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="osx/fisheye.css">
<script language="javascript" src="nitobi.toolkit.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" src="nitobi.fisheye.js"></script>
</link>
- Onload Function
function onLoad()
{
nitobi.loadComponent("myEyeObj");
- Add a a function to call when the a menu item is clicked to open a new AIR window and load a given URL.
function runWindow(wid) {
var bla = window.open("http://" + wid, wid, "width=800, height=600"); }
- Add the capability to click and drag the app around the screen when the bar above the menu is clicked with the mouse.
nitobi.html.attachEvent($("grabby"), "mousedown", function() {window.nativeWindow.startMove();});
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<img src="images/grabby.png" style="cursor: move;" id="grabby" />
- Then Package as an AIR application with the System Chrome set to “None” and set it to “Transparent”.
More Info and files. Download the code and AIR file to play around with it.. Check out Alexei’s original Ajax Fisheye post.
Technorati Tags: ajax, air, nitobi, adobe, onairbustour, component, fisheye, macdock, dreamweaver, extension
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Video of my On AIR Bus Tour Talk
August 20th, 2007
Figured it would be nice to post this video of what I’ve been yapping about at various cities across the US of A this summer. I talk about why having Ajax in AIR is great, some of the usability benefits gained with AIR over the browser. Then I show how to build a simple app in AIR and demo a pretty cool SalesForce.com client built in AIR for Ajax.
This video is from the Denver, CO event last month.You can see more video presentations from the tour here.
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links for 2007-08-19
August 18th, 2007
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Greg Tyree’s thoughts on AIR and the event in Atlanta. It was nice meeting him and his crew.
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Very interesting post on the history of web analytics and possibly the future. Runs from old school web server logs to the current trend of Cinelytics in which RobotReplay is mentioned.
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An online tool for obtaining information from telephone lines in reverse mode. Enter a phone number and get the caller’s name, address and a map. At present, there are 5 countries available: Argentina, Belgium, France, Italy and the USA.
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In english this title means “tips for setting a good office for software developers” some good ideas in here.
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“Who knows if these stats mean anything, but it does make a pretty graph. Current mailing list traffic leaders in the web framework space: Rails, Flex and GWT. For those frameworks with dev and users lists, these stats are from the users lists. ” Hmmmmmmm
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