Author Archives: James McParlane

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About James McParlane

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

Javascript ActiveRecord

Posted on September 5, 2005 by James McParlane

Ruby’s ActiveRecord Implementation is a very cool part of the very cool Ruby on Rails (RoR) project. RoR is a great way to build a database driven web page. It has weaknesses if you’re trying to build something that’s truly … Continue reading →

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Me And My Cat – 1994 – Robotic B&W QuickCam

Posted on September 4, 2005 by James McParlane

I attempt the use of mind powers to shift a cat [Recovered from pre HD crash blog]

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The Problem With Stacking Browser Event Handlers From JavaScript

Posted on September 2, 2005 by James McParlane

You learn something new every day, which is why I love being alive. Its an astounding coincidence that just when I needed to implement a cross browser method of stacking event handlers (for MetaWrap WireWrap), this blog post came out … Continue reading →

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And What Do You Use A Home Grown Super Computer For In 1991? Rave Visuals Of Course :)

Posted on August 23, 2005 by James McParlane
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Subtextual – Very Cool Language Demo

Posted on August 23, 2005 by James McParlane

Looks a lot like RIDE – execution model is copy based – very much like the original old BSCAL /MetaWrap VM. They even have the factorial demo. I’m very impressd with it – it looks much nicer than anything I … Continue reading →

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State of Ajax: Progress, Challenges, and Implications for SOAs

Posted on August 22, 2005 by James McParlane

“Dare Obesanjo recently enumerated some key points that Ajax application architects have to contend with and a few of them are particularly worthy of note including how to deal with the need for permalinks, the Back button, and others. Please … Continue reading →

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Something Else For The MetaWrap Javascript Library

Posted on August 22, 2005 by James McParlane

http://www.ripcord.co.nz/behaviour/ I really really like this. It uses the CSS selector syntax to style elements with javascript code. You only need to keep one mapping paradigm in your head and its consistent for appearance and behavior. I was considering using … Continue reading →

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Grammar Visualiser – Part II

Posted on August 19, 2005 by James McParlane

http://documentation.metawrap.com/tests/dot/test3.png (generated automagically) http://documentation.metawrap.com/tests/dot/test.png (the original target plan) It lurches into being. I’m thinking that I may have to write this with MwW3ParserLexerState being the node instead of the current plan for MwW3ParserLexerStateGroup. The issue at hand is that a MwW3ParserLexerStateGroup can consist … Continue reading →

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Bittorrent

Posted on August 16, 2005 by James McParlane

Now that the fate of the current generation of commercial P2P software is moot, the Eye Of Suaron turns towards Bram Cohen. [Bio] A little before the MGM vs Grokster ruling he formed a company and launched a search engine. http://search.bittorrent.com which … Continue reading →

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JavaScript Optimisation

Posted on August 10, 2005 by James McParlane

http://www.peachpit.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp’p=31567&rl=1 http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/10/ http://home.earthlink.net/~kendrasg/info/js_opt/ http://www.miislita.com/searchito/javascript-optimization.html

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