Author: Robert Baindourov

I started hosting their site. They are some band that my friend is totally enamored with. I also helped him out with the JavaScript needed to successfully run the movie. Device and browser support detection allows the site to present the correct file to the visitor.

When I am done with the Movie Masher, I’m going to get to working on an image editor.
Which is going to be AWESOME.

I’ve already put some time into it this weekend and got http://www.imagemodifier.com online.

So as you may know, life is dichotomous, and even though there are many things I don’t like about Apple, there are innovations they are using in their product design that PC simply must adopt.

No Fan Holes. What I love about the iPad is that I can leave it turned on inside my backpack and have headphone cord sticking out feeding tunes directly into my head. 🙂
The things about their products which make them seem unlike conventional computers is their ability to dissipate heat!

I don’t agree with Steve’s tight control over his products. But it seems it has paid off. For when you control the hardware and the software, of course everything “just works”. But I think it has gone too far, and that is obvious because everyone in my workplace is jail braking their phone or pad. Also constricting developers. And am I the only one who thinks there is something wrong about iAds when you can make 1400 a day by writing an LED/Flashlight application?

Today I worked on a Miva Merchant skin. It was super easy for me to do. There are a lot of improvements that are still required. But First the products need to be updated in the database.

http://www.soapplant.com/

I remember last year I was told to sign up for google wave.

Today I watched an important video, an event which took place after the keynote speech Introducing the release of google wave. It was the video describing how a team of engineers had to use gwt to create the app, and the evolution of gwt along the way.

A lot of the things we need, such as resource autoloading, inline javascript, browser detection, and countless of other features are already baked in. Google has done a great job at trying to help with the evolution of the web.

I would rather use gwt for the front end java for the backend. I guess no matter what language    We decide to use for the backend, the fact that testing your product can be sent to a server farm thanks to their web driver, is just awesome.

Today an article about scribd that they eliminated the use of flash and that user interaction jumped. But the amount of unique visitors did not. Who knows, maybe they are doing their tracking incorrectly. One thing that rings true is that the flash industry is full of morons trying to learn on the job, like a certain E.t. I worked with. Anyway scribd is betting the company on it.

With the development of the iPad and other mobile devices, that are not just smaller laptops with 3G, and apples refusal to support flash, it seems the stage is set for UI architects who are JavaScript ninjas. We are moving away from flash and flex development and heading into the world of sproutcore and maybe cappuccino.

These are new frameworks we are adopting at work. Cappuccino seems quite nice with some advanced demos like 280slides. But there seem to be some deficiencies with it on iPad. But sproutcore looks to be like winner of the show down, because of apples adoption of it for the MobileMe project.

I brought my ipad to work to show Aaron that there is no way to activate keyboard in the 280 slides demo. And his response is that there is just a different “touch” library we need to load, and we’re done. Jqtouch was one such thing which he mentionned.

I am curious about using my iPad to store files.

The longer I am in possession of this device the more I like it and wish to reverse engineer it.

Once again Kevin offered to jail brake my iPad.

He says that it will let me download all the apps for free. He charges a 100 bucks to do it.

One thing I would love is to make some alterations to the iPad keyboard. The complete lack of arrow keys and poor responsiveness of the Notes app to touch for navigation is a real time waster.

I find myself replacing whole words for just one character mistake. Or pressing on the screen four or five times just trying to get to the right position.

I bought an iPad because I didn’t have an iPhone.

If you’ve checked craigslist lately, you’ve seen that everyone wants an iPhone app.So I got an iPad for development purposes and also evaluation.

First I want to start with the positives:  Its a cool looking status symbol.
Okay now on to the negatives:

1. Complete lack of multitasking. They are working on this.
2. No support for Flash in the future.
3. No forseable support for tethering in the future, on the iPhone for sure, and that should stay firm for iPad
4. Sencha apps made for iPad lock up my G1.
5. No Track ball/ inaccurate and sticky skin
6. No Stylus
7. No Pressure detection – so far
8. Nazi control of the App Store.
9. Everything is Completely proprietary, no open source OS. Even though they yap about not supporting Flash cause its not open, they themselves do the same thing. But they require that anything their product consumes works on open standards. Hypocrites?
10. VGA adapter doesn’t really show everything, just videos?
11. Shameless self promotion tagging each email sent from their devices.
12. I’ll think of more stuff later.

Quite honestly, the prospect of having a netbook, a minuturized laptop, is much more appealing. I have a mac book pro from my job, and I like it and all, but I think the hardware is over priced for a professional like me.

Its really designed for people who are careless with their hardware and have no clue what they are doing. I find it even offensive that they have succeeded with that marketing model in the past, and that they are being so welcomed and embraced by the power users they alienated in the first place.

I have not forgotten, and I will not forgive, being insulted by Apple from the 90’s on.

So do yourself a favor, and if you want an iPad, DONT BUY IT, get a dell or hp netbook instead. Even buying an iPad is a sucky process, with components arriving at random times. I got the stand first with the VGA adapter, then a week after that the iPad, and two weeks later, the case.

Got a new job.
Its only been a few days but I’m loving it already.
The people are awesome.
The project is cool.

Cant really talk about what I am working on.
Legalize is hard to understand, and its better to be safe then sorry.

I got an iPad.
Its getting me a lot of attention.
On the 761 heading south from the valley,
I saw a helicopter stop traffic and make lifts.
And there was a bunch of hoodlums on the
bus who saw me and started talking jive.
But it was it cool, we had a laugh, they call me iPad. 🙂

And today I had a meeting and my iPad was the center of attention for a minute.

I got this craigslist scraper and it collected about 380 emails from the LA computer gigs area.
So I sent them an email blast today. Sent out this blog. Its looking good, I got 20 impressions so far, when I usually don’t have any.