Folks -
We now have access to network spelling correction and translation in Squeak. Something else I like to see sometimes is an animation of the last 6 weather satellite images of my area at 1/2-hour intervals. Weather.com provides this nicely, but it would be even nicer to have it in Squeak, and separate from all the ads and inaccurate forecasts. Plus it galls me that they don't cache the background image of the ground (I think) -- it should be able to ship the precipitation overlays in just a couple of seconds, but it seems to take quite a long time.
Anyone know enough to put this together?
TIA - Dan
Erk...yes, I've had this sort of thing running for quite a while.
It's really quite easy - just look at the HTML source of the pages with the images you like, then make a subclass of ImageMorph that polls that address on a regular basis to load the latest image. In your variant, you'd hold onto the last 6 images and cycle them.
At the risk of mentioning exobox yet again, we did similar stuff with news, weather, sports, stocks etc. by using the old Pointcast (later EntryPoint, now Infogate) feeds. Most of these systems delivered their data in XML (!!) and creating a viewer for top headlines, photo of the day, etc was usually quite simple.
Of course, cherry picking content without ads from some of these sites might bother them.
Other cool web-data-driven toys could include "where's the International Space Station right now" or "where are the latest earthquakes happening". At exobox we also talked about expanding on the fast sphere rendering code I posted a while back to act as a directory for webcams and other geographic kinds of stuff.
-- Duane
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Ingalls" Dan@SqueakLand.org To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:52 PM Subject: Weather maps?
Folks -
We now have access to network spelling correction and translation in
Squeak. Something else I like to see sometimes is an animation of the last 6 weather satellite images of my area at 1/2-hour intervals. Weather.com provides this nicely, but it would be even nicer to have it in Squeak, and separate from all the ads and inaccurate forecasts. Plus it galls me that they don't cache the background image of the ground (I think) -- it should be able to ship the precipitation overlays in just a couple of seconds, but it seems to take quite a long time.
Anyone know enough to put this together?
TIA
- Dan
"Duane Maxwell" dmaxwell@san.rr.com is widely believed to have written:
Other cool web-data-driven toys could include "where's the International Space Station right now" or "where are the latest earthquakes happening". At exobox we also talked about expanding on the fast sphere rendering code I posted a while back to act as a directory for webcams and other geographic kinds of stuff.
Ashcroft and his evil cronies would love that as a UI to make spying on everyone that bit easier. Imagine, a globe with a little marker for every one of the six (or so) billion of us - constantly updated with the latest info from shopping mall security cameras, ATM records, spy satellite shots, police traffic cameras, and all those other little magical devices that exist to 'make us safer'.
What, me, cynical? Never.
tim
Ashcroft and his evil cronies would love that as a UI to make spying on everyone that bit easier. Imagine, a globe with a little marker for every one of the six (or so) billion of us - constantly updated with the latest info from shopping mall security cameras, ATM records, spy satellite shots, police traffic cameras, and all those other little magical devices that exist to 'make us safer'.
Tim -
I'll probably get in really big trouble for this, but all these cameras and all are just there to broadcast your entire life. You see, this corporation bought you as a baby and you've just been the lead character in a TV show.
Your wife is in on it.
-- Duane
PS. Do something interesting, will you? Your ratings are dropping quickly.
"Duane Maxwell" dmaxwell@san.rr.com is widely believed to have written:
I'll probably get in really big trouble for this, but all these cameras and all are just there to broadcast your entire life. You see, this corporation bought you as a baby and you've just been the lead character in a TV show.
That's fine, but why am I getting no royalties for it? Where's my lawyer?
PS. Do something interesting, will you? Your ratings are dropping quickly.
Hmm, how about the show where I got my Spitfire flying at last? Or the upcoming one where my double-O license is reactivated and I get to shoot bad guys without even warning them?
Or how about the new VM I'm working on with closures, plugin execution engine, new compiled methods, cleaned up primitive (etc) coding, dumped old junk, etc etc. Is that interesting enough to get another few ratings points?
tim
This is reality programming, Tim. That last example is just too good to be true.
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Gary Fisher Spectrum Electronics, Inc.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Rowledge" tim@sumeru.stanford.edu To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Weather maps?
"Duane Maxwell" dmaxwell@san.rr.com is widely believed to have written:
I'll probably get in really big trouble for this, but all these cameras
and
all are just there to broadcast your entire life. You see, this
corporation
bought you as a baby and you've just been the lead character in a TV
show.
That's fine, but why am I getting no royalties for it? Where's my lawyer?
PS. Do something interesting, will you? Your ratings are dropping
quickly.
Hmm, how about the show where I got my Spitfire flying at last? Or the upcoming one where my double-O license is reactivated and I get to shoot bad guys without even warning them?
Or how about the new VM I'm working on with closures, plugin execution engine, new compiled methods, cleaned up primitive (etc) coding, dumped old junk, etc etc. Is that interesting enough to get another few ratings points?
tim
-- Tim Rowledge, tim@sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim Strange OpCodes: KFP: Kindle Fire in Printer
"Noel J. Bergman" noel@devtech.com is widely believed to have written:
how about the new VM I'm working on with closures, plugin execution engine, new compiled methods, cleaned up primitive (etc) coding, dumped old junk, etc etc.
Is the ARM jitter in there? :-)
Well, hopefully that would be value of the plugin execution engine idea. Also I'd like to include the old Interval translator code somehow to allow on-the-fly generation of plugins, maybe even VM fixes.
Actually I suppose there might even be room to do something a bit HotSpot-ish and have a simple minded interpretation engine and a Smalltalk direct-to-machine compiler to hit on common code. I guess now that there are only three cpu architectures that matter (ARM, x86 & PPC) there is a bit less to worry about when developing a translator.
tim
Steve Swerling wrote:
Duane Maxwell wrote: [snips]
At exobox we also talked about expanding on the fast sphere rendering
code I
posted a while back to act as a directory for webcams and other
geographic
kinds of stuff.
Can you post another pointer to that code?
http://swiki.gsug.org:8080/sqfixes/492.html
Andreas followed up with spheres done in B3D (made of *blech* polygons) using the same texture maps to produce the FinalFrontier demo.
The primary difference is that this code is specifically designed to produce true spheres extremely quickly, but is not well suited for general use.
-- Duane
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