"""
20:07 japherwocky: you gotta do a before / after on this project when you finish
20:27 someone: oh, good idea
20:28 someone: my traffic is up every day since taking it on, too
20:30 japherwocky: coming in from GOOG?
20:30 someone: yeah
20:30 someone: goog organic and goog adwords
20:30 japherwocky: cool
20:30 someone: i suspended the campaigns today though, at least until the design has settled
20:30 japherwocky: any conversions?
20:30 someone: trying to figure how to approach the lead form now
20:30 someone: well
20:30 someone: one person signed up for a free 30-day trial to the
anti-virus we peddle
20:31 japherwocky: alright!
20:31 someone: but with fake info
20:31 japherwocky: oh :\
20:31 someone: yeah
20:31 someone: well, actually, gonna try the phone number tomorrow
20:31 someone: but the email was bogus
20:31 someone: and name, i'm pretty sure
"""
The Dark Art of SEO and Design
Why I hated Flex
I recently spent some time trying to figure out why the controls on a
Flex popup window didn’t seem to have any tab index. While debugging
the problem I found that the focusManager was null for the popup
window. I finally discovered that the PopUpManager will only
automatically create a FocusManager if the popup window implements
IFocusManagerContainer. It turns out that the spark VGroup component
does NOT implement that interface. After switching to a
BorderContainer (with a VerticalLayout) tabbing worked as expected.
""" -- http://eastmond.org/blog/?p=1
From a non-technical perspective, this is like a nerd gibberish parody. From the technical perspective, this is like an enterprisey gibberish parody. ( No offense to the guy who wrote it. May you have spared some other
poor programmer the pain of that experience. ;)
Lightbank pitch #1
From: Lightbank <lightbankapply@gmail.com>
Japhy,
@Lightbank
What is your brilliant idea:
If you build a database of word chains from Gutenberg or Wikipedia, you could probably drastically improve speech recognition. GOOG picks up \"but do they really know\" as \"but today really know\" Yet, a query for \"but today really know\" gets 0 hits. \"but do they really know\" has 61k. Usually speech recognition is done with SOMs (I know because I implemented two or three for http://neuraliq.com), and some kind of fuzzy matching. So if you take the closest two or three matches and then see if those word chains are even passably sane English, it seems like that would be a pretty good improvement! (Bonus points, personalize by scraping email/twitter/blogs)Why should we be interested:
It\'s probably just coincidence that $GOOG and $MSFT have huge speech recognition projects. I hear mobile phones are a fad, anyhow. ( If you get it right, it would be a huge edge in the mobile market, what with the whole.. tiny keyboard thing)How are we going to make money together:
We\'re going to sell dictation software that actually works, a la Dragon, and then probably get acquisition offers from some big guys in the mobile space.People:
Name: Japhy Bartlett
Bio:
former architect, now freelance coder in SXSWMI, by way of LA and SF startups
Contact information:
Name: Japhy Bartlett
Phone: 7347174596
Location: Benton Harbor, MI (a 2 hour train to Chicago)
Email: japhy@pearachute.com
Url:
Jaguar Love
Yet Another YC App
Sort of hard to hold the phone and talk intelligently!
Casual poll for pythonistas in the trenches
I've been finishing off inline image attachments for
http://simplemailer.pearachute.com/ , and running into the most
ridiculous bugs.
wild. I hates them. In an effort to be constructive, I am resolved
to write The One Email Library to rule them all, in the form of a
canonical, simplified email object. One header, One encoding, etc. As I prepare to step back into the madness that is string encodings in
Python, I recall that Python 3 was supposed to solve all of this for
us with it's Every String is Unicode
(http://diveintopython3.org/strings.html) principle. I wonder if it's
time to start porting code? I use (and adore) Zed Shaw's Lamson library (http://lamsonproject.org),
and would almost certainly use his encoding handling code as the
start for this creation. So I wonder if a good quick project would be
to port that code over to Python 3. It's not too large (part of why I
use it!):
japherwocky@japhercules:/opt/supermailer/lamson$ wc -l ./*.py
311 ./args.py
304 ./bounce.py
410 ./commands.py
205 ./confirm.py
508 ./encoding.py
180 ./html.py
0 ./__init__.py
338 ./mail.py
183 ./queue.py
603 ./routing.py
277 ./server.py
147 ./spam.py
182 ./testing.py
111 ./utils.py
0 ./version.py
93 ./view.py
3852 total
Python 2.x is the status quo, Python 3.x is the shiny new thing.
Acerus Quo! I like shiny things, and maybe it's got marketing value..
or something. Maybe I should just squish the latest bug and move on
with my life. So, like a civilized netizen, I write and submit to the
great social oracles of our day. What do you think, friends?
Poster prototype
Wish I could figure how to share a couple photos at a time. voice keyboard is kind of cute but has issues still
