Well Kiran and I both gave our first public presentations at the OverTheAir mobile conference at the Imperial College.
Kiran talked about Agile & Mobile development and I talked about Progressive Enhancement
So the wifi seemed to work pretty well out of the box but I noticed after prolonged use it would just suddenly freeze and the only way to make it come back was to reboot. (You couldn’t even reload the module or restart networking stack).
You can tell if this will be a problem for you by running iwconfig: if you have lots of Invalid misc errors and the signal and noise levels are fixed at -60dBm then you will want to switch from the ipw3945 module to the iwl3945.
I had to start the install CD in safe VGA mode and have not got the slash to display yet.
To get sound to work you don’t need to recompile your kernel or go back to an earlier version just follow method G one this page:
Gutsy Intel HD Audio Controller
or
sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-generic
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
In the editor, add the following line at the end of the file:
Smart Contracts
http://www.erights.org/smart-contracts/index.html
http://www.waterken.com/dev/IOU/Design/
We may end up getting RESTful smart contracts for free due to all the goodness in the current design. This could lead (my client).com to an unheard of level of security and possible make it the most high profile public implementation of smart contracts to date. Watch this space
Auto Save Enhancement
We currently auto save on page transition but for JavaScript clients we could do this on any change. Imagine a world were your browser behaves like IntelliJ and you never loose any data you type in.
Decoupling Resource selection from Representation selection in our Urls
This will allow resources (domain objects/documents) to be selected (think SQL WHERE clauses) and presenters re-used by the client editors without specific coding by developers. So a url like “/video/skins/latest” could return all videos tagged with skins or possibly any resource tagged with video and skins. What we are aiming for is totally dynamic / fluid urls with uses we never imagined.
So I thought I would start my first post with what I have been working on for the last couple of months. Naturally I have removed all references to my current client.
What we have built already:
RESTful Web Site and Web Components
So just like REST exposed your web service api/end points on to url and embraced simple message / state transfer we are going a step further and making all our web components (think html widgets) be exposed by an addressable url. Composition of components can then be done done either server side or client side. And is therefore not language specific so one could compose a widget that comprised of other widgets written in ruby, python and C# etc. In fact the widgets don’t even need to be on our server or written by us - think mashups on steroids.
Okay, after 4 years of people asking me, I finally setup a technical blog.