http://itmmetelko.com/blog Pickled ramblings and homemade marmalade Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:41:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I got sick of WP's heavy and bloated admin panel and it's bugs (with RSS) so I moved my further blogging to posterous. Janko’s Army of Code Trolls ~ coding realted stuff Janko’s braincell depo ~ random stuff I will try to turn this blog to static pages and keep it alive for ... http://itmmetelko.com/blog/2010/01/31/moved-to-posterous/ Image via WikipediaI was at WebCampLjubljana last Saturday. WebCamp is the BarCamp style event with WEB theme. At the last BarCamp I promissed myself that I will give a talk on the next one, so I prepared a talk called "A pinch of REBOLution - dissecting a web (ro)bot". Random ... http://itmmetelko.com/blog/2009/12/02/webcamp-ljubljana-%e2%80%93-random-points-and-sticks/ Image via CrunchBaseI wanted to write a long elaborate rant about this, but realized only idiot would want to write an essays about an irrelevant thing ;). So I'll just shoot out some bullet points and be done with it. I recently went to phone-shop and bought myself a little noname ... http://itmmetelko.com/blog/2009/10/17/why-iphone-will-be-irrelevant/ You can read my latest blog post about security and importance of making priorities on Refaktor's blog. I will keep posting more serious and more general blog posts there, and have this blog for more crazy and more coder's stuff. Security and priorities! » http://itmmetelko.com/blog/2009/10/10/new-refaktor-blogpost-security-and-priorities/ It's Sunday morning so I took some time for myself. I have a strong affinity to Functional Programming but I haven't really done anything with Haskell yet. I read about it a lot but so far preferred OCaml for things where I wanted a compiled language. Today I started reading Real ... http://itmmetelko.com/blog/2009/09/06/some-haskell-vs-rebol-observations-and-some-lisp-ness/ This is a rather short (unedited/uncut - because you can't edit with Jing) screencast of Site Assistant. As an example I add websites of two more prominent Slovene web startup companies: www.zemanta.com and www.noovo.com. It's not an official fancy screen-cast, ... http://itmmetelko.com/blog/2009/07/24/short-screencast-of-site-assistant/ I was playing with how actors + message passing system could look in REBOL. I wrote 3 posts about that, the latest is this one, and you can follow down from it. The whole library that I called actor-net is still very small and simple (well that is positive) and just ... http://itmmetelko.com/blog/2009/07/03/rebols-actor-net-used-for-real-distributed-system/ Jsgoo.js library is leaning towards functional ( FP ) style of programming. Besides the typical map, reduce and filter I added function I called seek. You can get the same result with reduce (this is sort of optimisation on a subset of reduce) but seek can exit iteration of sequence ... http://itmmetelko.com/blog/2009/06/24/javascript-combinator-seek/ Out of QwikiTodo came QwikiTxt. You can read about reasons for making QwikiTodo here and QwikiTxt here. Below is a video screencast that shows the main features of just released QwikiTxt: The most interesting feature is maybe visual display of ... http://itmmetelko.com/blog/2009/06/21/new-release-qwikitxt/ A short screen cast showing some WIP stuff I am experimenting with in site-assistant. I generally want users to see data on one "plane" without the need to switch pages. The two maybe interesting things here are the tab+toggle functionality for details and for now called Hide the rest functionality ... http://itmmetelko.com/blog/2009/06/19/experimenting-with-data-navigation/