Dave Balmer

Well played, Yahoo. Well played.
I’ve been holding off on a deep dive of YUI 3, but with Hack Day 2008 and a chance to corner various YUI folks this week, I figured it was a good time to load up with intelligent questions.
Right off, I’m very impressed with the configurator. It lets you cherry-pick the […]

Wow, time has been flying by at my new gig. Hopefully I’m not too late to get in for Hack Day, cause it’s a hell of a lot of fun. I haven’t been rubbing elbows with my Yahoo friends in forever, so hopefully a few familiar faces will be there. It’s September 12-13 at the […]

I was looking some months back at the “Hot” iPhone Web apps, and was amused to find the “iPhone Flashlight” and, later, the various strobe lights and other things which basically set the background color from #000 to #FFF. Not to be outdone, I made the iPhone SOS app one night which used the same […]

Here’s some JavaScript code for grins:

 
dave = {
show: function() {
this.style.display = ‘block’;
},
 
hide: function() {
this.style.display = ‘none’;
}
}
 

It seems to work, but it jams a ton of “style” tags into the source. Not a good example of coding for someone who does this sort of thing for a living. I’ll look for another plugin.

I had a lot of fun doing this game for the iPhone. It’s based on an abstract strategy game I invented in 1995 called “Glass Bead Challenge” and released for Windows. It’s sort of a cross between Go and Reversi, and is at least mildly amusing.

http://gobico.com

Apple put it up as a “Staff Pick”, and even […]