Comments for The Blog of Frank W. Zammetti http://zammetti.com/blog The demented ravings of a software developer Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:55:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Thoughts on Palm’s CES showing by Ben Galbraith http://zammetti.com/blog/2010/01/09/thoughts-on-palm%e2%80%99s-ces-showing/comment-page-1/#comment-1345 Ben Galbraith Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:55:01 +0000 http://zammetti.com/blog/?p=87#comment-1345 Chris, The PDK is an important piece to the puzzle, but it in no way lessens our commitment to the Web as the native platform for the device. Best, Ben Director, Developer Relations, Palm Chris,

The PDK is an important piece to the puzzle, but it in no way lessens our commitment to the Web as the native platform for the device.

Best,

Ben
Director, Developer Relations, Palm

]]> Comment on Thoughts on Palm’s CES showing by Palm at CES 2010 – 3D, Video, Pre and Pixi Plus and More | Pre 101 http://zammetti.com/blog/2010/01/09/thoughts-on-palm%e2%80%99s-ces-showing/comment-page-1/#comment-1343 Palm at CES 2010 – 3D, Video, Pre and Pixi Plus and More | Pre 101 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:40:05 +0000 http://zammetti.com/blog/?p=87#comment-1343 [...] sure that the capabilities of the Canvas element have been fully realized by game developers.  As Frank Zammetti pointed out, there is a tremendous potential for applications developed with existing Web [...] [...] sure that the capabilities of the Canvas element have been fully realized by game developers.  As Frank Zammetti pointed out, there is a tremendous potential for applications developed with existing Web [...]

]]> Comment on Thoughts on Palm’s CES showing by Chris http://zammetti.com/blog/2010/01/09/thoughts-on-palm%e2%80%99s-ces-showing/comment-page-1/#comment-1342 Chris Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:49:19 +0000 http://zammetti.com/blog/?p=87#comment-1342 Wow! Really interesting post. I was feeling a little slighted by Palm, because I, too, bought into the CSS/HTML/JavaScript model that they presented as the future. It felt like Ares, and then the subsequent PDK announcement, erased (or diluted, at the very least) that vision. And I'm certainly no superstar developer. I say this as a person who was heavily involved in web design and development until around 2001 (the bad economy led me to a new career). I had been itching to get back into the game, and WebOS felt like the best opportunity when it came out. Now, I'm left feeling confused and concerned. And possibly stuck in my terrible accidental career. But enough about me. Your post confirmed my fears, yet somehow also made me feel better about it all. Let's hope the PDK is indeed a "stopgap" until the JS APIs are there. And let's hope Ares is taking us someplace better. Until then, I'm sticking with your book. :-) Wow! Really interesting post.

I was feeling a little slighted by Palm, because I, too, bought into the CSS/HTML/JavaScript model that they presented as the future. It felt like Ares, and then the subsequent PDK announcement, erased (or diluted, at the very least) that vision. And I’m certainly no superstar developer. I say this as a person who was heavily involved in web design and development until around 2001 (the bad economy led me to a new career). I had been itching to get back into the game, and WebOS felt like the best opportunity when it came out. Now, I’m left feeling confused and concerned. And possibly stuck in my terrible accidental career.

But enough about me. Your post confirmed my fears, yet somehow also made me feel better about it all. Let’s hope the PDK is indeed a “stopgap” until the JS APIs are there. And let’s hope Ares is taking us someplace better.

Until then, I’m sticking with your book.
:-)

]]> Comment on Book “Practical Palm Pre webOS Projects” now available by Chris http://zammetti.com/blog/2009/12/15/book-practical-palm-pre-webos-projects-now-available/comment-page-1/#comment-1339 Chris Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:23:38 +0000 http://zammetti.com/blog/?p=83#comment-1339 Sounds great--honestly can't wait to hear your thoughts! Again, great book! Sounds great–honestly can’t wait to hear your thoughts! Again, great book!

]]> Comment on Book “Practical Palm Pre webOS Projects” now available by fzammetti http://zammetti.com/blog/2009/12/15/book-practical-palm-pre-webos-projects-now-available/comment-page-1/#comment-1338 fzammetti Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:49:42 +0000 http://zammetti.com/blog/?p=83#comment-1338 Glad to hear you're enjoying it :) As for my thoughts... I'm actually planning a fairly lengthy blog post about all that stuff... going to try and do it later today. In short... Ares: mixed feelings... CES announcements: mostly very cool, great job by Palm, with a few (potential) negatives that I haven't heard anyone talk about yet. Glad to hear you’re enjoying it :) As for my thoughts… I’m actually planning a fairly lengthy blog post about all that stuff… going to try and do it later today. In short… Ares: mixed feelings… CES announcements: mostly very cool, great job by Palm, with a few (potential) negatives that I haven’t heard anyone talk about yet.

]]> Comment on Book “Practical Palm Pre webOS Projects” now available by Chris http://zammetti.com/blog/2009/12/15/book-practical-palm-pre-webos-projects-now-available/comment-page-1/#comment-1337 Chris Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:39:03 +0000 http://zammetti.com/blog/?p=83#comment-1337 Hi Frank, Enjoying the book. Curious about your thoughts on Ares, as well as on the various announcements from CES (3d gaming, PDK, etc). Thanks! Hi Frank,

Enjoying the book. Curious about your thoughts on Ares, as well as on the various announcements from CES (3d gaming, PDK, etc). Thanks!

]]> Comment on This will probably piss you off… AND IT SHOULD! by Raj http://zammetti.com/blog/2009/02/10/on-this-whole-mental-illness-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-1318 Raj Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:01:26 +0000 http://zammetti.com/blog/?p=29#comment-1318 Dude, i totally agree with you. I would go so far as to expect the government to seek the death penalty. Without fanfare. When dogs go crazy. We put them to sleep. We don't do it for fun. We don't do it out of a sense of malice. We do it in everybody's best interest. And we don't make a big deal out of it. That attitude of 'but shes sick', i partly ascribe to the christian ethos of being able to forgive people for anything and everything. People should get out of their imaginary world of 'being able to forgive people or feeling sorry for them' and looking at things from a common perspective. Is this person a threat to normal folks around? If yes, we lock them away for life. If a horrible crime is committed, we, the state, eliminate them. Sanctimonious peity should not be allowed to come in the way of practical reality Dude, i totally agree with you. I would go so far as to expect the government to seek the death penalty. Without fanfare.

When dogs go crazy. We put them to sleep. We don’t do it for fun. We don’t do it out of a sense of malice. We do it in everybody’s best interest. And we don’t make a big deal out of it.

That attitude of ‘but shes sick’, i partly ascribe to the christian ethos of being able to forgive people for anything and everything. People should get out of their imaginary world of ‘being able to forgive people or feeling sorry for them’ and looking at things from a common perspective. Is this person a threat to normal folks around? If yes, we lock them away for life. If a horrible crime is committed, we, the state, eliminate them.

Sanctimonious peity should not be allowed to come in the way of practical reality

]]> Comment on Animation in user interfaces: not just for coolness anymore! by Werther http://zammetti.com/blog/2009/07/26/animation-in-user-interfaces-not-just-for-coolnes-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-1316 Werther Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:17:28 +0000 http://zammetti.com/blog/?p=72#comment-1316 Great post. You couldn't be more right than that. As a GUI designer, I've always known the importance of UI animation but not always have thought about it thoroughly as you did on this post. It'd be nice if you pointed out the sources of your research. Great post. You couldn’t be more right than that. As a GUI designer, I’ve always known the importance of UI animation but not always have thought about it thoroughly as you did on this post. It’d be nice if you pointed out the sources of your research.

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