Tech Blog — John Keyes

Linkeyes 20th November 2009

John Keyes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:45:07 +0000

Dmitry Baranovskiy highlights some problems with Google’s Closure library.
A virtual keypad, using HTML5 video and a webcam.
First part in a three part series on Bash scripting. It served me well as a refresher recently.
SSL connection to svn failing after migration / Problems / Discussion Area – Beanstalk Support
Leah Culver’s approach to simplifying the log-in/sign-up flow of a web app.

John Keyes — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:45:04 +0000

John Keyes — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:45:05 +0000

John Keyes — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:45:07 +0000

John Keyes — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:45:04 +0000

The unix-jun72 project – restoration of 1st Edition UNIX kernel sources from pdf document.

John Keyes — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:45:03 +0000

John Keyes — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:45:05 +0000

Querying with YQL (Yahoo Query Language) made the web as easy as select * from internet. Now update, delete and insert makes Read/Write APIs just as easy to use.
How to maintain transparency when writing GIF files with PIL.
The BBC release Glow a Javascript library with support for drag and drop, a rich text editor, autocomplete and more.

John Keyes — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:45:05 +0000

John Keyes — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:45:04 +0000

Taskfox looks interesting. Not sure I like the awesome bar approach, I’d be quite happy for the content to be displayed in the browser itself.

John Keyes — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:47:46 +0000

If you’d like to get into screencasting then I recommend ScreenToaster as the place to start. So here’s a screencast of how to use ScreenToaster.

Here is the screencast that was uploaded to YouTube directly from ScreenToaster (note the watermark in the video).

Here is the same screencast that was saved as a .mov and then uploaded to YouTube (note there is not HD version).

And finally here’s the same screencast uploaded to ScreenToaster itself.