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Thanks. It was fun to develop, but expermiments like this unfortunately don't pay the rent.
Thanks. It was fun to develop, but expermiments like this unfortunately don't pay the rent.
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Apple Adopting SproutCore for Web Applications
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Keep coming up with interesting things like this and you'll find your calling (or land you an even better job than you're in now, if you're not in the biz.)
Great concept anyway. I think it you clean it up a bit, speed it up, add an admin section, etc it might be worth selling as a shareware web application (or even donateware... you'd be surprised). People pay money now for a program like slideshowpro which is flash-based. Again, not enough to pay the rent but a little extra $$$ on the side wouldn't be bad right?
Couple things to consider: I wouldn't load the full images right away... only the ones at the current zoom level. You could continue loading the other sizes in the background. If a user resizes on the fly then replace those low-res ones with the high-res when they load in. Some will be loaded, others won't be. It's a compromise. Might be worth playing around if you have extra time sometime.
Great concept anyway. I think it you clean it up a bit, speed it up, add an admin section, etc it might be worth selling as a shareware web application (or even donateware... you'd be surprised). People pay money now for a program like slideshowpro which is flash-based. Again, not enough to pay the rent but a little extra $$$ on the side wouldn't be bad right?
Couple things to consider: I wouldn't load the full images right away... only the ones at the current zoom level. You could continue loading the other sizes in the background. If a user resizes on the fly then replace those low-res ones with the high-res when they load in. Some will be loaded, others won't be. It's a compromise. Might be worth playing around if you have extra time sometime.
They certainly could... but you have to be playing the long game.
It's the stuff lucrative buyouts and tasty stock options are made of.
~ CB
Sproutcore and Ruby?
I installed Sproutcore on my linux box and was amazed at the amount of Ruby it required. First, ruby and gem just to install, then 7-8 ruby packages as prerequisites.
It seems more like a Javascript front end to ruby on rails.
Any thoughts?
I installed Sproutcore on my linux box and was amazed at the amount of Ruby it required. First, ruby and gem just to install, then 7-8 ruby packages as prerequisites.
It seems more like a Javascript front end to ruby on rails.
Any thoughts?
Other way round. You use the Ruby to automagically generate some of the javascript.
You can use whatever backend you like, Apple uses WebObjects (which is written in Java) for their Sproutcore apps but you can use php or Rails should you choose.
This may sound corny but i'll say it anyway. Benjamin Franklin never got paid for getting struck with lighting for messing around with a kite and a key.