Entries for label: github

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Two Reasons Why I'll Never Install Flash Again

The first is pretty obvious. Now that I can watch YouTube using HTML5 features that means Flash is one step away from being chucked out forever.

And after reading this blog entry about the Google Maps API v3, Flash – as far as I’m concerned – is now out of the window. I didn’t realise but hidden in amongst a lot of other text are the words The most significant change is that Street View is entirely implemented in HTML....

I thought “No, surely not”, so I kept double clicking the map until I was sufficiently zoomed in to see 'Pegman’ and I moved him onto the road. Sure enough, in my non-Flash versions of both Chrome and Firefox I could see Street View. After twisting the view around, clicking up and down the street I was wondering to myself “I have no freakin’ idea how they did this, but I’m glad they did”. If you haven’t noticed already, I think the Flash version of Street View had two levels of zoom, well this one seems to have 5 or 6.

So yes, I’m a happy bunny tonight. Add this to the fact that GitHub also reimplemented their network graph a few months ago using the Canvas element, the future is looking decidedly bright (and very HTML5-CSS3-like).

Labels: html5, css3, gmaps, flash, github, google, street-view

Inserted: 2010-05-21 11:46 (1 year, 9 months ago)

Wow, it's been Two Months

I last posted here on 13th February which is altogether too long.

Anyway, just to let you know of a couple of things I've been up to recently. Of course, there are plenty of other things too but they'll have to wait for another time.

Firstly, I've been hacking on a small script which helps me generate static websites. Honestly, it is very small and it really does work. It's fast too, though I've only tried it with two fairly small sites so far.

The good thing is, it's data driven and uses templates to put everything together. It's called Blat and I'll probably put it on GitHub fairly soon (though I should try and put it on CPAN).

New Site - Chilts.org

The first example site I can show you is my new personal site called chilts.org. It's not going to take over as my blog but it is going to start as both a first contact point for me personally and to also point to other places on the web that define me and who I am.

For example, I found out recently about the new .tel tld and once I figured out it was boring and of course chilton.tel was already gone, I decided to do my own site with more, better and nicely presented information.

Also, I thought it would be a good idea to have a place where I can link to everything else from. This also means that kapiti.geek.nz may get a future simplification.

Planet Catalyst

Finally, some of you may have noticed that I haven't posted this entry to Planet Catalyst. The main reason is that it used to be a good place to put up some technical/geek articles and to get a somewhat larger audience. I'm sure the latter is true but I don't think the former is anymore. I fear the more technical articles are getting lost in amongst the non-technical ones (indeed, some articles are by people not even employed by Catalyst) which I don't really think was the original idea for the planet.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against what the planet is now it just doesn't excite me as much as it used to and therefore I won't be posting to it. Maybe if it changes in the future but we'll see.

Until next time :)

Labels: perl, cpan, github, blat, chilts-org

Inserted: 2009-04-22 23:08 (2 years, 10 months ago)

I Love GitHub But...

...sometimes it can only go so far.

The fantastic people at GitHub have released yet another feature to their already impressive hosting service. They are now offering downloads for which I initially became very happy.

Until I read the fine print.

See their blog entry about it and let me know what you think (and yes, you may have already spotted the comment I left there).

It's a fantastic service, GitHub rolls updates out very frequently, I've only ever seen it problematic once and I've consistently been impressed with how much they're doing for the open source community.

So why in the world would you use flash? I quote:

If you’re still one of the holdouts, do yourself a favor and install Flash ... [snip]

I'm afraid it's not going to happen. Not only am I adverse to proprietary software I think it also smells of a closed web, something which I'm sure the GitHub guys are also adverse to.

Also, the only reason they're doing it is so that uploads can bypass their own servers ... something to do with going straight into S3 I presume. Ok, that may be so, but really?

What next?

Having to install Silverlight to perform an upload to a server. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm sure a pretty early version of HTML allowed uploads of files to servers many, many years ago.

Labels: no-flash, html, planet-catalyst, github

Inserted: 2009-02-11 21:05 (3 years ago)

Cil Hits a Nerve

I'm amazed at the reception Cil is getting so far. Further news now is ...

... Cil has been made a featured project on GitHub's Homepaage (though you have to be logged out to see it).

I spoke with Tom Preston-Werner a couple of weeks ago about projects which help drive Git adoption and thought he would be interested in Cil. He told me he'd feature it on the front page of GitHub so thanks very much Tom, that's awesome.

My Ohloh stats on Cil are also looking good and will soon show that the project has already had 6 contributors, some of whom have jumped completely out of left-field.

Thanks to everyone for helping out so far.

Labels: git, cil, planet-geek, planet-catalyst, github

Inserted: 2008-07-31 21:28 (3 years, 6 months ago)