“If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.” – Minister Mentor of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew evoking the ghost of Deng Xiaoping whilst endorsing the Tiananmen Square massacre, Straits Times, Aug 17, 2004
At its core, Dreams From My Father is about the appreciation of [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 19, 2009
The Appreciation of Humanity
February 19, 2009
Two Things: 1 on the desktop and 1 on the web
And two questions—
Can a desktop application be cloned (feature-for-feature with the same user experience) on the web?
Can a web application actually be better than the desktop version?
The delightful answers—
Of course, everything except the menubar (which is pretty much redundant in this application) can be recreated. From drag-drop to undo to instant editing without having to [...]
February 12, 2009
Create search (and other simple) Ubiquity commands without writing code
If the Herd was still up (it’s back up now!), you could see that a lot (a majority?) of Ubiquity commands are simply site-specific search commands. And that’s not surprising – search is one of the most common activities on the web (Google’s rich!).
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What if you could create search commands for any site without writing [...]
February 4, 2009
Weekly Focus: Email Commands
It’s time to start improving the built-in Ubiquity commands! Since the launch of Ubiquity last August, huge improvements have been made. But most of these new changes haven’t improved the commands in any way. Aside from a few bug fixes, the “wikipedia” command, the “twitter” command and others are still the same as they were [...]
