RasterWeb!Is there a term for the process that takes place when you create valid, semantic XHTML code for a client, then hand it off to them, and by the time it goes live, it’s a completely invalid and non-semantic mess?
Because there should be. So for now, I will call it “The Unvalidization!”
Do you have a better idea?
Do you hit Gizmodo on an hourly basis? Subscribe to Engadget‘s feed? Feel envious of Phil Torrone on a daily basis?
If you’re into gadgets, bring them to the Share Your Gadgets session at BarCampMilwaukee.
Did you know you can use a kid’s toy as an MP3 player and photo viewer? You can… Got a cell phone that you think kicks ass? Bring it.
We’ll talk about the gadgets of today, and the gadgets of tomorrow… What’s good, what’s bad, the UI, the battery life, etc…
Besides cell phones, people have digital cameras, media players, PDAs, GPS receivers and on and on… What will you bring?
Just because I can’t participate in BarCampEarth, doesn’t mean I can’t participate in BarCampEarth…
A few months back, my pals at Z2 Marketing gave me an old Mac, so my challenge became “what can I do with it?” You might remember such projects as MacKiosk which was a photo kiosk built using an old Apple Workgroup Server 80. Well, this is Kiosk2 , which is built using an old PowerComputing PowerCenter 150. Ten years ago this was a killer workstation, featuring a 150 MHz PowerPC 604 processor. Nowadays it’s almost useless…
A little MacPerl magic, a copy of the always exellent JPEGView, and an AppleScript applet to kick things into gear, and we’ve got our kiosk!
So what about BarCampEarth? Well, I built this thing to use at BarCampMilwaukee, the idea being we set it up and as people upload and tag photos with "barcampmilwaukee" they will appear on the screen. So since this weekend is BarCampEarth, we decided to test it all using the tag "barcampearth"
So far it’s working ok. There is a weird flicker when the images load, so I’ll have to work on that, and in earlier testing I’ve had the Mac lock-up on me, but a reboot fixes that problem. Old hardware put to good use… hooray!
So I thought, what can I do for a BarCamp session that would definitely overload my plate… A Mash Pit!
At BarCampMilwaukee, we will have a session on what a mashup is, just going over the basics, showing some examples, talking about APIs, and brainstorming ideas, but for those who aren’t into sleep, we’ll start at 11 PM and see what we can crank out before the sun rises.
We are prefixing with “Mini” because it may only be a few hours or so, depending on whatever else is going on at BarCampMilwaukee. I’m still hoping a bunch of code monkeys I’ve emailed plan to come, because while just me sitting at a table doing this alone would still be very cool, and result in some killer app, I’m sure I could use the input and assistance of others… :)
I’ve been meaning to actually use Ma.gnolia for quite some time now, but being happy with del.icio.us, and the lack of a matching API was holding me back… well, no more…
The folks at Ma.gnolia have released The Mirrord API, which (like Scuttle) is the del.icio.us API, so now we should be able to easily more data between the two. (I guess it’s time to update delisync.)