Felocity

Sunday was good to me. We slept in a lot thanks to the wicked party the people at Newsvine, Blue Flavor, Bryght, and Raincity Studios threw. Unfortunately, this also meant that I missed Matt's podcasting panel. One more panel to find the notes for, since it would be great if Gaia would podcast their convention panels.…

Convergence panel: This was honestly really dry. A lot of time was spent on what convergence is, but not too much time on how people are approaching it and what convergence and divergence mean for us as programmers and designers. After that, it was off to lunch.…

h2. Friday 8:17 am

My flight left this morning at 7:45 am for Austin, TX from San Jose, CA. The fact that we are 30 minutes into the flight and I am using my laptop means one very important thing: I'm not on the previously mentioned plane. Instead, I'm sitting at A10 on standby, waiting for the 11:40 flight. Boarding is at 11:10, so now I have three hours to pass. What better way to pass it than with my laptop, though I will certainly need to find an outlet soon, this way I'm fully charged for the flight. At least I can do homework.…

Note Textify is now 2.1. It supports cookie level saving and by-paragraph gradients.

It's been long overdue, and has done all sorts of things like suck at being PHP and slow (and occasionally core dumping). Jokingly, I told my friend it should be the responsibility of the client's computer to coredump. After a bit more joking, more on my part than his, I realized Aaron was right and I should rewrite the Textify module. I needed to get down and dirty with Prototype(Prototype JS Library Home Page) anyway, and what better way than some powerful string processing libraries and amazingly quick regex. Pound for pound, indexOf() and charAt() leave me returning to PHP with a longing for some really basic functionality. For historical background, gradient text became a trend back in the days of Yahoo! Chat, with programs like CheetaChat and YChat making colored text blending commonplace (or at least that was how my generation remembered it). I found myself wanting that effect, so I wrote something. That was version 1 almost a year ago. This is now version 2, and it got a major overhaul.…