Author Archives: James McParlane

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About James McParlane

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

LOLCats From Your Phone To RSS – The LOL-* Specification From ThumbWhere.com

Posted on September 14, 2008 by James McParlane

LOL-* (Pronounced “LOL STAR”)  is a simple and compact markup language for creating image macros on your mobile phone via MMS. An implementation of this language has been included as part of the http://rss.test.thumbwhere.com MMS to RSS gateway. When you … Continue reading →

Posted in LOL-STAR, Mobile Phones, ThumbWhere.com | 2 Comments

uT.ag Launches At StartupCamp – Automatically Add Contextual Advertising To Outbound Links In Your Blog

Posted on September 9, 2008 by James McParlane

David Vandenberg (One of my co-workers at Massive) attended StartupCamp  this weekend and in 24 hours created uT.ag (here is the elevator pitch video) which allows you to create a compressed url like http://tinyurl.com/ and http://is.gd/ but goes one step … Continue reading →

Posted in Axonomics, Web2.0 | Leave a comment

Bug In Chrome In Gmail

Posted on September 5, 2008 by James McParlane

Times seem to ahead by an hour. Suspect some kind of JavaScript bug. GMail far RHS column in IE7 GMail far RHS column in Chrome.

Posted in Browsers, Chrome, Whining | Leave a comment

Chome Market Share – The Economics Of Supporting A New Browser

Posted on September 5, 2008 by James McParlane

I’ve been tracking Google Chrome’s market share. This is important because as web developers we get clients wanting to support the top ranked browsers. Normally clients want just IE, FF and Safari supported  Sometimes this includes list Opera. At its … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome – I Loves It

Posted on September 3, 2008 by James McParlane

I Like it. Its fast. The tab page is genius. Its my default browser for everything bar web development. Webkit developers console is outclassed by FireBug on FireFox. Flash works. Flash player install required a few goes. Java Works.. but … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Flash, JavaScript, Silverlight | 2 Comments

Windows TimeZone Converter

Posted on August 10, 2008 by James McParlane

I’m thinking of making some updates to my Timezone Converter Utility. I’ve had some great feedback from people using the GPS AJAX/Google Maps/Google Earth/ActiveX integration. I seem to have a lot of users in the merchant navy and people who … Continue reading →

Posted in TimeConverter | 6 Comments

www.cuil.com – Finally, Decent UX Applied to Search

Posted on July 30, 2008 by James McParlane

I’ve not been so impressed by a search engine since Google hit the waves. http://www.cuil.com What is particularly impressive is the usability. And the category explorer that so far seems to be mostly spot on and very useful. I find … Continue reading →

Posted in Search | 1 Comment

JavaScript Finite State Machine/Theorem Prover

Posted on July 21, 2008 by James McParlane

I started writing this two years ago and never really got around to blogging about it. In a nutshell this is a module that runs within the MetaWrap JavaScript library that allows you to define a finite state machine in … Continue reading →

Posted in JavaScript, Web2.0 | 3 Comments

Silverlight/Office2007 Charity Thing…

Posted on May 29, 2008 by James McParlane

Yes its advertising for Microsoft -but its for a good cause. “Microsoft Australia are running an interesting campaign to demo MS Office 2007 and raise money for charity at the same time. The premise is fairly simple. Users head over … Continue reading →

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Twitter Up and Down Again

Posted on May 19, 2008 by James McParlane

Looks like Twitter is going into the garage tonight. Its coughing a bit of blood at the moment so that may be a good thing for all of us twitticts. http://www.istwitterdown.com http://www.twitter.com

Posted in Twitter, Web2.0 | 1 Comment