Author Archives: James McParlane

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About James McParlane

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

Dynamic Resolution Dependent Layout Using JavaScript

Posted on January 28, 2006 by James McParlane

Its a few vowels short of a buzzword, but don’t hold that against it. There is a strong trend at the moment towards dynamic resolution dependent layout via JavaScript, that is the page rearranges the layout of its content via element-wise x,y positioning … Continue reading →

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Contact

Posted on January 28, 2006 by James McParlane

I can be contaced via MSN on james AT ebom.org or on googletalk or email as drmiaow AT gmail.com.

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Bigpond V8 Supercars Panelbeaters Podcast

Posted on January 23, 2006 by James McParlane

We have produced our first Podcast! http://www.v8supercar.com.au/content/panelbeaters_podcast/podcast.xml Its for V8 Supercars – the site we scooped the AIMIA awards with.

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Web3.0

Posted on January 18, 2006 by James McParlane

Fantastic article about the hype and truth of Web2.0 by Jeffrey Zeldman. “We pause but a moment to consider two AJAX-related headaches. The first afflicts people who make websites. Wireframing AJAX is a bitch. The best our agency has come … Continue reading →

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No Mozilla Protocol Plug-in Example Or Documentation

Posted on January 18, 2006 by James McParlane

http://www.mail-archive.com/mozilla-netlib@mozilla.org/msg02102.html So looks like I’m giving up on Mozilla development of a protocol plugin in C++ – the platform is simply just not mature enough to develop against. I have wasted 4 hours of my life only to find that someone has … Continue reading →

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Web2.0 – Its All About The API – If You Want To Be Bought By Google/Yahoo/Microsoft

Posted on January 11, 2006 by James McParlane

So Michael Air looks over my shoulder when I’m looking at egoRank and asks a fairly obvious question, “But how are they going to make any money?”. My stock response came out “Someone will buy them.”. Then it hit me. … Continue reading →

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Sydney, Unrest, Muslims, Kebab

Posted on January 10, 2006 by James McParlane

Tonight I met a very tall man. I am not short – but he towered over me. He was very well educated and very well dressed. His girlfriend was a gorgeous young woman. Every year at Massive’s Annual Xmas party … Continue reading →

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Attention Rank

Posted on January 9, 2006 by James McParlane

Next years big web buzzword will be “Attention” AttentionRank will be the new way of measuring relevance. The poster child for Attention will be http://www.memeorandum.com/

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More Reason To Continue With The MetaWrap Rendering Pipeline

Posted on January 9, 2006 by James McParlane

Great post by Dave Johnson that replicates and surpasses some of the benchmarking I have already into the practicality of using XSLT. This is why XSLT is at the heart of the MetaWrap JavaScript Rending Pipeline. The rendering pipeline and macro … Continue reading →

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JavaScript Speed Trials – Post III

Posted on January 9, 2006 by James McParlane

Comment Tests – Parsing In this test the test code is parsed 100 times for each measurement. The number of comments varies from 1 to 10000 in increments of 666. Each of the comments is 64 characters long     … Continue reading →

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