Souce
Today HP released Enyo as open source. They also announced Enyo 2, which will increase its cross platform and browser compatibility (along with many more great changes). That makes today a great day. With this release, I can code once and deploy a web app to webOS, Android, iOS, and other WebKit enabled browsers with ease.

With Enyo 2, I'll be able to write it once and deploy it on all those systems and on any web browser with modern web runtime. Enyo 2 currently does not have UI elements built in but that is planned for a March 2012. With that release, it'll be fun to see what I can convert at work to use this new and awesome framework.

I'm not the best at reporting all that is going on, so I direct you to enyojs.com. That is where the framework now exists (and on github, that is linked from the enyojs homepage).

Souce [Dec 09, 2011]
So webOS, my favorite mobile os, is becoming open source. Good. I am eager (and slightly fearful) of what is to come now.

The bad is all the unknowns of a big company open sourcing a product they don't seem to care for at times. Will HP only opensource it and then forget it or will the entire ecosystem flourish under this license? Will the software die without a dedicated hardware platform?

The good news is it'll be easier for me to write my apps for multiple OSes and for the web in general. So eventually Checkbook (and whatever other apps I decide to build/open up) will be available in all sorts of places and on many operating systems. So Android people, when HP opens enyo up, prepare for a big change in your Checkbook app.

http://www.precentral.net/hp-open-source-webos-no-hardware-plans-or-partners-announced
http://www.precentral.net/open-source-plan

Souce [Jun 10, 2011]
I recently redesigned the GlitchTech Science website. While I did not add much design related content, I did update several chunks of code that control it. The site now uses jQuery UI in several areas. The most visible items are the left side navigation (I still need to tweak it more) and The home page blog view.

I'm not fully happy with the navigation system on the site yet. It is functional and I do like it better than the previous system. For those who didn't see it, the previous system was a top bar with mouse-over drop downs. It was easy to move your mouse outside of the drop down element and loose the stack. Not the best way to do things. Now the sidebar relies on mouse clicks on the arrow buttons. Clicking one opens a section; clicking again closes it. Clicking the title of the section has inconsistent behavior. If it is a link, it will take you to that webpage. If it isn't, it doesn't do anything. For now, that is disabled as it really sucked to use. In a future revision I need to make it a more consistent interaction. I'd also like to make it so a section will open up automatically if it contains a link to the current page.

The blog view uses the RSS feed from my Blogger account to render the content. It uses MagpieRSS to parse the XML content. The content is then formatted and placed in a jQuery UI Accordion system. This allows me to have three of the most recent posts rendered with all the content present and then have a list of links to past posts in a fourth divider.

Besides those visible changes, I also changed a few areas of the PHP code running things. I'm most happy with my changes to the navigation code. Before it was a jumble of links manually typed out. Now it is a recursive list generator based on the array passed in. The array can be nested as deep as needed, too deep of a nesting makes for a horrible list to navigate. If you would like the code, it is available at http://glitchtechscience.com/code_samples/arrayToList.php.txt.

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[Jan 15, 2010] Checkbook is a Featured App
[Jan 03, 2010] Engaged
[Nov 27, 2009] Checkbook for webOS
[Nov 21, 2009] No Title
[Nov 14, 2009] Work and No Work
[Nov 08, 2009] No Title
[Nov 06, 2009] webOS Development
[Oct 31, 2009] Halloween
[Oct 27, 2009] Experimental Papers
[Oct 21, 2009] It's a brand new day.