Author Archives: James McParlane

About James McParlane

CTO Massive Interactive. Ex Computer Whiz Kid - Now Grumpy Old Guru.

Cold Calling On An Instant Messenger

Posted on March 30, 2006 by James McParlane

If you are going to add someone out of the blue to your contact list in instant messenger, and you have the good luck that they don’t reject you out of hand, don’t then ignore a request of “Hi, can … Continue reading →

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Hire'm

Posted on March 28, 2006 by James McParlane

Mr Air bribed me with a packet of potato chips, so I am now going to plug his new venture. What is Hire’m? Hire’m is powerful service to streamline and simplify the hiring process for any kind of business that … Continue reading →

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Creating A Scanner From A Given Input Grammar – The Current State Of The Art

Posted on March 25, 2006 by James McParlane

I’m trawling through conventional theory at the moment to see if my approach shows up on the radar anywhere – if it does then I can probably get some hints and tips on what could make it better or if … Continue reading →

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MetaWrap Time Converter, Build 4

Posted on March 23, 2006 by James McParlane

New Version Here This build fixes some reported bugs in the timezone data. Christchurch NZ, Incorrect timezone – traced to bug in timezone memory decompression code. Juneau – Alaska – U.S.A, Incorrect timezone USA and Canada – corrected Daylight saving … Continue reading →

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User Centred Design and Leg Waxing

Posted on March 22, 2006 by James McParlane

Fantastic post in which Leisa Reichelt talks about User Centred Design and a leg-waxing experience. “Perhaps it was the combination of pain and dissatisfaction that made me combine my work with my leg wax. In terms of user experience design, … Continue reading →

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JavaScript Arguments

Posted on February 21, 2006 by James McParlane

arguments The arguments object provides access to the arguments that are passed into a function. You can refer to a function’s arguments within the function by using the arguments array. This array contains an entry for each argument passed to the … Continue reading →

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Coolest User Interface Ever – The Future Is Touchy Feely

Posted on February 9, 2006 by James McParlane

Thanks to Lela Kaunitz for sending me this link – I watched it and it just blew me away. While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with … Continue reading →

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Adding XPath to Metawrap – Part I

Posted on January 29, 2006 by James McParlane

As part of the MetaWrap Continuous Integration Project (mw_monitor), I have decided to add XPath to the MetaWrap XML engine. There are currently three methods I could use to process XML in mw_monitor. DTD Plug-in – Using this method I would … Continue reading →

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Old MetaWrap Demo

Posted on January 29, 2006 by James McParlane

Found an an early draft of some concept materials for the original MetaWrap Project “Fish” (1998-2001) that could turn any existing HTML website into an XML data-source by the application of the MetaWrap pattern language. This single XML file recursively defined … Continue reading →