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CSM: Anyone left who still wants to maintain contact? (Random Thoughts)

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:09:31 GMT

Hmm, all I know really is Hunter890 and BOINCER. I already told the latter. I'll poke the former.

I accepted the invite. I'll probably get around to finding that stuff end of next week. I'm currently at a German demoparty and can't access my desktop /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

dean.beedell: Informer Widget (Widget Test Ground)

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:34:08 GMT

My apologies for posting that here, my reasons are that the forum won't let me open a new topic but I can reply to those already created. Also, some of what my widget does is similar to the informer widget.

The informer widget is gorgeous by the way, very elegant and stylish, the antithesis of mine which is designed to be clunky and mechanical. On another note if you'd be so kind as to submit it to yahoowidgeteers on deviantart we'd be more than please to receive it. Link below:

http://yahoowidgeteers.deviantart.com/

dean.beedell: Anyone left who still wants to maintain contact? (Random Thoughts)

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:25:32 GMT

CSM I sent you an invitation at DA - please log on and accept and you'll be able to post your widgets. Look forward to seeing you, can you bring over anyone else?

dean.beedell: Anyone left who still wants to maintain contact? (Random Thoughts)

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:41:08 GMT

this is a dual post so forgive me

I've created a group on DeviantArt where past and present Yahoo Widgeteers can post their old widgets. All that is needed is a preview image, a brief description and a .widget.

http://yahoowidgeteers.deviantart.com/

I have started the ball rolling by posting my own steampunk widgets and inviting a few past widgeteers to post.

My own personal opinion is that the YWE! will continue to work with windows and the Mac OS/x for the forseeable future, the combination of Photoshop, the conversion script and javascript is still an elegant solution for creating desktop widgets so it is still my starting point. I am starting to convert to xwidgets but YWE! is still my preferred working environment.

Some will read this announcement and ignore it but please for the sake of others, posterity or to provide the world with a useful resource, do joinDeviantArt, do post your widgets and leave a comment or two on the widgets that are already there.

DeviantArt Yahoo Widgeteers

It is possible to take a backup of the forum using one of the site downloaders that bots/spiders use when copying a site's contents. I started doing it with this site but the combination of bandwidth and disc space required to store .html versions of each and every page generated by the cms/forum is too prohibitive for me to continue. It can be done though if you have plenty of disc space (and I mean plenty) as well as unmetered bandwidth.

dean.beedell: Informer Widget (Widget Test Ground)

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:29:56 GMT

My latest steampunk widget, 1.0.2 is available for testing:

you can get it here at Rocketdock
Steampunk Resource Monitor at Rocketdock

or here at DeviantArt
Steampunk Resource Monitor at Deviantart

dean.beedell: DESKTOP WIDGET GALLERY SUPPORT ENDS SOON (Announcements)

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:59:38 GMT

QUOTE(jbartlett777 @ Jan 17 2013, 06:37 PM) [snapback]120946[/snapback]

No new posts in years or users in months and rumored the forums will close 2012Q4 (already past).

Sad days.

/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

I've created a group on DeviantArt where past and present Yahoo Widgeteers can post their old widgets. All that is needed is a preview image, a brief description and a .widget.

http://yahoowidgeteers.deviantart.com/

I have started the ball rolling by posting my own steampunk widgets and inviting a few past widgeteers to post.

My own personal opinion is that the YWE! will continue to work with windows and the Mac OS/x for the forseeable future, the combination of Photoshop, the conversion script and javascript is still an elegant solution for creating desktop widgets so it is still my starting point. I am starting to convert to xwidgets but YWE! is still my preferred working environment.

Some will read this announcement and ignore it but please for the sake of others, posterity or to provide the world with a useful resource, do joinDeviantArt, do post your widgets and leave a comment or two on the widgets that are already there.

DeviantArt Yahoo Widgeteers

CSM: Anyone left who still wants to maintain contact? (Random Thoughts)

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:16:14 GMT

Well, you know, seeing as we're still here (the forum, that is) and nothing materialized for a different one (I rather think it wouldn't be the same ... and generally all the personal reasons/motivations to post something here would be different and changed ...) I should note that there's still a ##konfabulator IRC channel on freenode.

If you don't have a client already, I think freenode provides a free web one. The channel doesn't require a registered username like some channels do, so anyone is free to join. There's no obligation to always be there, though I've set it to my auto-join list of channels when I log on.

Usually it's just PovAddict (BOINCER), his bot, MTughan (Michael's Programming), and me. HRyba (Hunter890) joins occasionally. We're never "on topic" so whatever is fine /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Though right now PovAddict is out until tomorrow so it's really really empty.

Freenode has quite a few help channels for various things (Java, C/++, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Apache stuff ...) so you might be there already. We don't really get any visitors, just the occasional random person who finds the channel, joins for no reason, then leaves shortly after. If that was one of you guys, you should have said hello!

g6auc: So, uh, we're apparently still here ... (Random Thoughts)

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:27:38 GMT

QUOTE(CSM @ Mar 16 2013, 05:34 AM) [snapback]120950[/snapback]

Heh, well, since I was last active here I've officially "learned" (nobody is ever done) Python. Originally for work, but starting on a bit of personal stuff with it.

I've used Python a bit, but I'm not too keen on it. I played with xwidget on Windows, but have moved back to K on my iMac.
I've helped make quite a few steampunk widgets with Dean Beedell and also converted one of them to work on my home page.

CSM: So, uh, we're apparently still here ... (Random Thoughts)

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:34:23 GMT

Thanks! (at the wood stuff) On that note, I've got more pictures of that kind of stuff. I pulled the pictures above from there. (Someone has told me those look like coasters, but I wouldn't use them as such without something like an acrylic sandwich to protect them.)

In regards to Harry:
Heh, well, since I was last active here I've officially "learned" (nobody is ever done) Python. Originally for work, but starting on a bit of personal stuff with it.

I've also generally kinda moved on to web stuff, and with HTML"5" + CSS3 there's been a veritable explosion of features. Some of the more interesting stuff is the almost wide-spread support for WebGL now. It may have just been a fledgling future fancy around the time I was active here, but now it's definitely real. Similarly, CSS3 got 3D transformations, transitions and animations. There's definitely a lot you can do without JS anymore.

One of my web endeavors, Hexxagon a clone of a game of the same name from way back in DOS days (that I only got to experience through DOSbox). I am by far not the only modern clone. I think the Google Play store has at least 3.

g6auc: So, uh, we're apparently still here ... (Random Thoughts)

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:55:10 GMT

Hi Art,

Nice work!

I'm still making the odd Widget for my own amusement.

I'm getting too old to start with new stuff.

Harry.

Rob Marquardt: So, uh, we're apparently still here ... (Random Thoughts)

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:22:23 GMT

That�s some right-fine burning there, that is!

CSM: So, uh, we're apparently still here ... (Random Thoughts)

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:34:39 GMT

Yeah, so, I guess the "awesome" all powerful and mighty end of the world, or just this one, didn't happen. I'm sure the Vogons had something to do with it. The proper forms were only signed in duplicate and weren't lost in peat moss, just the nearest potted plant.

You know, I don't think I've done anything like Y! Widgets in maybe a year. When I finally got around to trashing XP so bad that I installed Windows 7, I didn't bother reinstalling it. Blasphemy, no? but I'm not sure I had a copy, and that doesn't even include the supposed mounting bug list reported across this forum against Win7. With that change I now also have a monitor that's wide enough to make reading things on full width sites, like this forum, within a maximized browser a pain.

Anyway, on other ramblings, might as well tell you all what my username stood for. It wasn't exactly some big well-thought out, or even cheeky, pick. I was in college at the time, and it actually stands for "A CS Major". What a crock! "Oh-no, I got bit by a radio-active spider. I'm going to call myself Spiderman! That'll fool everyone." /blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" />

Apparently I left myself logged in to this place in the first non-apptab in Firefox so it autoloads when I restore my previous session. I mostly don't click on it so it never actually loads beyond the placeholder tab. I guess the magic cookie takes a while to time out. I must have closed some other tab to have it default to this one. Right next to the one for XMPlay so I can maybe remember some day to actually update it.

Since this is a pretty long waste of a thread, I think I'll do the standard social-sharing-site-after-a-rant tradition and post an image of something [of mine] to try to make it worth the read. Sorry, it's not a cat. but it did involve a laser. and burning things.

(Click for larger. Propped up with Witchwood by Bj�rn Lynne and enveloped by esem. "Hiding" a large vitamin bottle in the background.)

jbartlett777: DESKTOP WIDGET GALLERY SUPPORT ENDS SOON (Announcements)

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:37:05 GMT

No new posts in years or users in months and rumored the forums will close 2012Q4 (already past).

Sad days.

/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

g6auc: Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! (Random Thoughts)

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:30:48 GMT

QUOTE(Cicerone Pavaloi @ Dec 27 2012, 09:31 AM) [snapback]120944[/snapback]

...to everyone. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Hope you are all healthy and happy! /cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="B)" border="0" alt="cool.gif" />

... and the same to you!

Harry.

Cicerone Pavaloi: Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! (Random Thoughts)

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:31:40 GMT

nobodyz: DESKTOP WIDGET GALLERY SUPPORT ENDS SOON (Announcements)

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:08:17 GMT

QUOTE(Lauurent @ Apr 14 2012, 08:32 PM) [snapback]120923[/snapback]

Yes great opportunity, until Yahoo decides to let developers and users down again and move on to something else. /dry.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="<_<" border="0" alt="dry.gif" /> I certainly won't put my trust again in anything done by Yahoo.

I think this says it all.

If I could re-post this a thousand times to represent the minimum of a thousand folks who feel the same way, I would. Of course, I will not spam like that. Just saying.

People spent YEARS working, for free, to be of help to other people. Then Yahoo, yet another BIG CORPORATION comes along and says "ooo, lookie here, we can just steal all this and make a ton of money off it."

It makes me ill. /wacko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wacko:" border="0" alt="wacko.gif" />

And I won't be trusting anything coming out of Yahoo. Not that this was the first indication to me but this is the final straw. Yahoo knows where I'd suggest it go....

g6auc: TypeScript Language (Advanced Scripting)

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:59:14 GMT

Microsoft announced its TypeScript Language and Compiler initiative on October 1, 2012.

See http://www.typescriptlang.org/

The compiler is available on Windows under Visual Studio 2012 as a plugin and there are a few editor plugins for Windows and Mac OS X.

There is a version of the TypeScript compiler that runs on Mac OS X under Node.js and I have also built a TypeScript Compiler Widget that runs on Mac OS X and Windows under the Yahoo! Widget Engine.

As an aid to learning to use the TypeScript language, I've also made a Yahoo! Widget environment declaration/library file which makes it a lot easier to convert existing Widget javascript files to typescript or to run TypeScript programs in the Widget environment.

If there is anyone interested in trying the Widget, I'd be happy to share.

Reply here or by private message, please.

Cicerone Pavaloi: Anyone left who still wants to maintain contact? (Random Thoughts)

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:34:49 GMT

QUOTE(ppenpraze @ Jul 11 2012, 05:42 AM) [snapback]120939[/snapback]

I can dream right? /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Yes, we can! /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

QUOTE(Galewind @ Jul 11 2012, 08:57 AM) [snapback]120940[/snapback]

Is anyone able to grab a backup?

Not sure if that is possible... /sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

Galewind: Anyone left who still wants to maintain contact? (Random Thoughts)

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 05:57:12 GMT

QUOTE(ppenpraze @ Jul 10 2012, 06:34 PM) [snapback]120937[/snapback]

Hate to see these forusm go do down as I still search these for tips and code.

That's a good point. There's lots of info here that will be lost when the forum is shut down. Is anyone able to grab a backup?

ppenpraze: Anyone left who still wants to maintain contact? (Random Thoughts)

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:42:45 GMT

True, but alteast it would have some chance to stay alive- slim as it may be. It's just unfortunate that it's gone to the wayside.
The engine still works well, just some updates would be nice. I can dream right? /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />