Dave Balmer

YUI 3 PR1 Configurator

Dave — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:32:23 +0000

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 bits you want for your app, then it sorts out dependancies, and hands you an url for minified, roll-up API goodness. It even gives you a pie-chart breakdown of where your download is spent across API modules.

The new node and event model is intriguing, and I plan on playing with this pre-release API quite a bit.

Hack Day Commeth

Dave — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:08:07 +0000

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 Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale. See ya there!

iPhone SOS: a different sort of “code”

Dave — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:54:47 +0000

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 “high tech” approach to make Morse Code signals. Then I chuckled, showed a few friends who also chuckled, and I promptly forgot about it.

If you want to preview it, you’ll probably need Safari or Firefox because I’m too lazy to fiddle with IE for something this small and specialized. So point your iPhone to the URL, bookmark it, and use it in cases where all other forms of communication break down:

mtskull.com/sos

Tap the three screen keys (dot, dash and space) to hand-key your code, or tap the input box on the top and key something in using the iPhone text input. Tap “send” and signal that special someone across the crowded room, or call for help in a remote area with no cell phone coverage. You can also play party games with it, learn Morse code by trial and error, or just marvel at the latest thing in wireless communications. Options let you set the color of your light and the speed which it sends your messages.

Let me know if you come up with any other interesting uses for this thing.