Eric Albert
Eric Albert, another face from Homestead’s past recently shipped a product(the intel iMac). Congrats!
And, he has the funniest observation:
On a semi-related note, Apple’s stock closed at $80.86 today. Somehow that seems appropriate, in a way that, say, $80.85 wouldn’t be.
FeedLounge
FeedLounge is getting some well deserved praise. I’m back to Gregarius, though. Having a mobile reader is very important to me. I’ll go one further. The mobile reader for me has to use ghetto ajax so I don’t have to reload the page everytime I flag something or mark an iterm as read.
How does that work? I hacked up a version of kdz13’s mobile theme for Gregarius to do it. Basically, I just swap the src of an img tag to point to a php file that serves up an image. Before it serves up the image, though, it performs any action I requested through the query string. In my case, it marks an item as read. Also, if you want to send any information back to the page, just put it in the set-cookie header before serving up the image.
This text file contains a simple test of that functionality. I realize this will only a few pdas, but that includes mine(the Palm TX), the Treo 600 and the Treo 650.
Keep in mind that, although I started down this path independantly, I definitely wasn’t the first person to use image swapping this way.
Other Dinner items
I forgot to mention a few things about the dinner in my last post:
- It’s great that Jim was excited to talk to this group of passionate technologists about some really sensitive issues, on the record. The discussions really did get heated at times which was a blast and Jim, Neil, Jason and Linda were engaged the whole time, clearly voicing their opinions.
- Windows Collaboration was one of the demos. One of the guys on that team, Hans Anderson, used to work here at Homestead. I love seeing projects that my friends have been working on, especially in a setting like that.
- Phillip Torrone signed my Make Magazine Issue 1. Nice. Robert was nice enough to give me the heads up that Phillip would be there. I really admire his work. Now that I think about it, though, if he doesn’t know that I knew he’d be there, he must think it was wierd that I came with a sharpie and issue 1. That’s funny stuff!
John Tokash 