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SeaDragon, an application from Microsoft that extracts the "Deep Zoom" component from Silver Light and enables it on an iPhone, has been released to the Apple Application Store (Wonders never cease!) because the Apple iPhone has a fantastic GPU.

What's very interesting to me about this feature is not the mobile component, but the ajax one.

Apple, Steve Jobs, bow out of MacWorld Expo. This fuels the usual debate on Steve Jobs' health, as usual, and rumors run rampant. What do you think? Sick? Disincentivized?

PLUS: My new favorite iPhone Application: Taxi Magic. Seriously -- how slick is that? When do you usually need a Taxi? When you're most impaired, likely, say perhaps after drinking? One button. Finally, technology for fun and profit.

Posted at 11:20AM Dec 17, 2008 by Joshua Long in General  |  Comments[0]

Samuel Jackson for HTTP error codes!! Awesome.

Roy Fieldings on Apache 3.0 (well, sort of -- more of a series of hopeful hypotheticals than anything else...). It's brilliant: my favorite idea? Using Samuel Jackson pictures and quotes for all HTTP error codes!

Posted at 07:12PM May 25, 2008 by Joshua Long in General  |  Comments[1]

Adobe Media Player

Adobe’s Finally Released Their Much Rumored Media Player: "Adobe
Media Player"

Posted at 05:56PM Apr 12, 2008 by Joshua Long in General  |  Comments[0]

Quick Update, DIY Zoning, Mac/Ubuntu shock, and phantom key commands

It has been forever and a day since I've blogged, and not for want of trying!

It's been an amazing, wonderful month at my latest gig.

As I type this on my windows copy of MS Word, I find myself reaching for my Mac-imbued command keys and trying to use alt to do weird things.

I got introduced to Ubuntu Linux, the first Linux distro to ever, ever, completely work out of the box with the super-proprietary hardware on my old Sony VAIO laptop. Even my wireless card works, which was unthinkable! The wireless card never works on Linux without insane hacking on MadWifi (you know the whole ndiswrapper dance?) and some sort of sacrificial lamb…

I'm finding out a lot about the wide world of Cocoa and the utopian computing environment that was (and, to some extent continues to be in modern-day OS X) NeXT.  Objective C's turned out to be a lot of fun, and in particular, using Maven Oh yeah, I went to   Oregon for the 4th of July weekend, and that was humbling. Absolutely beautiful. Lastly, the last Java User Group's topic was pretty cool, and well worth your time if you're interested in wielding tech and bettering your home :  DIY zoning

Posted at 11:37PM Jul 21, 2007 by Joshua Long in General  |  Comments[0]

Safari For Windows! Huzzah!

Apple's got Safari available for Windows (is this a surprise to anyone though?).

The site wasn't as funny as when iTunes came out and the website had something to the effect of, "Hell's frozen over: iTunes for Windows." Good news, nonetheless!

Posted at 01:13AM Jun 13, 2007 by Joshua Long in General  |  Comments[0]

If I were a South Park character...

If I were a South Park character ( South Park Studio), I would look like:

Posted at 10:29PM Apr 29, 2007 by Joshua Long in General  |  Comments[0]

I just got married!

I just got married!

It’s the morning after, 2:54 AM, Sunday, January 14, 2007. I was married yesterday, Saturday, January 13, 2007, at 10 AM, to my friend and console and… words fail me… to Richelle.

Few things make me arch my head in utter stupor… Few things stun me. I work in computer science, after all. Technology is science, and science is constantly learning that unknown. It’s learning that je-ne-sais-quoi that keeps our curiosity working, nagging us into the early mornings.

Richelle stuns me.

I love you, Richelle. Here’s to whatever’s next. I’m curious.

Posted at 02:54AM Jan 14, 2007 by Joshua Long in General  |  Comments[1]