Category Archives: MetaWrap Server

Progress Update

Posted on March 11, 2019 by James McParlane

Work Massive, the company I have been so busy at over the last 22 years was sold a few months back. This is an amazing milestone. It’s rare to have a job that you love to go to every day. In … Continue reading →

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Radon Radon

Posted on August 11, 2006 by James McParlane

We somehow managed to loose the last update to this page which is a shame because I outlined what I would be doing these next two weeks. Just as well it was lost because I have been waylaid working on … Continue reading →

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The Joy Of AutoMake

Posted on August 11, 2006 by James McParlane

Anyone considering playing with Makefiles and Automake should be very clear about the different ‘flavors’ of variables. 🙂 http://www.gnu.org/manual/make/html_mono/make.html#SEC67 Also Recursive Make Considered Harmful. makes a good read. I can see the sense in what the paper says, but this … Continue reading →

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Getting Things Together

Posted on August 11, 2006 by James McParlane

After a great holiday, I’m now gearing up to have a busy year with this project and at work (I’ve been approached to start porting some old Amiga games across to Interactive TV Formats.). I’m currently building the CVS source … Continue reading →

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CVS Repository

Posted on August 11, 2006 by James McParlane

The source code for the MetaWrap is in a CVS repository. Now that the original commercial source has been released under GPL, I am currently in the process of pouring the released source code from the commercial CVS repository into … Continue reading →

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ClickTale

Posted on July 28, 2006 by James McParlane

ClickTale shows you the full story: every mouse movement, every click and every scrolling action. By using ClickTale you will gain insights that will improve your website’s usability, enhance navigation, and increase effectiveness. http://www.clicktale.com/ Something that looks scarily like my Open … Continue reading →

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MetaWrap JavaScript Cluster/Grid

Posted on July 26, 2006 by James McParlane

This is not an April Fools post – although when you get to the end of it you may wonder. As a proof of concept of the MetaWrap Apache_mod interface I’m going to write something that distributes grid tasks to web browsers … Continue reading →

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Grid Envy

Posted on July 26, 2006 by James McParlane

I was in the middle of building something like this as a demo for my XML storage server, looks like several people beat me to it. Looks like they applied for a patent only to find that there is lots of … Continue reading →

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Mashup That Uses Blogger and del.icio.us APIs For Backend Storage

Posted on May 29, 2006 by James McParlane

Thanks to Dom for pointing this out to me. Check out this screen-recording of a demo Flash Flex application called NoteTag. The application uses Blogger and del.icio.us as a back-end for storage. Blogger is used to store objects and del.icio.us is used … 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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