Jonathan Grimes
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It was my first public offering to the world of freeware! My high school after-hours project is now on github. I don’t know why I haven’t done this sooner, but I thought it would be a fun git-to-know git activity.
Just looking through all these files brings back memories — my, how far I’ve come. My first rendition of this project mostly used the MFC classes Microsoft shipped with their Visual C++ 5/6 projects (this was before Visual Studio .NET). I eventually released this gem as Simply Transparent 6.5, and was the version that was honored as the “Free file of the Day” on TechTV’s “The Screen Savers” with Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone, post Kate Botello era. Right around that time, I kicked MFC to the curb and rewrote the entire program with nothing but the Windows bare API at my mercy. I had grown as a programmer and found a new love of strait-up-no-hand-holding raw C++. Those were the days… learning something new every day, and digging for more — constantly digging — knowledge in software development and the art of UI design.
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There’s nothing quite like getting a new gadget that makes me want to take full advantage of it… and by that I mean write applications for it, or with it. :) The Google notebook, CR-48, is a very nice machine. It has my imagination spinning with possibilities… for those that don’t know what this is, the Google notebook is a demo unit running Google’s beta ChromeOS. Which, is basically a very thin Linux system running ONLY the Chrome web browser…a very modern browser with early implementations of new technologies for the web… The idea is that almost everything you do on your computer is through the browser, so the browser IS the operating system, not an application that runs in it… pushing all the “hard work” to The Cloud…giving you only the user interface and the end-result/byproduct of “your” applications.
With a notebook like CR-48, I think it would be awesome to have a project that lived entirely on The Cloud… run in modern standards-compliant browsers (WebKit-derived, Mozilla/Firefox 3.6+, IE9+) as well as DEVELOPED in The Cloud…I’m talking about something like Bespin and putting it into something that offers an Eclipse-like environment, but accessible from anywhere. :)
This new notebook has me even more excited about the web and its future… I’ve been reading about the wonders of the new world of HTML5 and its vast improvements on what it will bring to the table. ECMAScript v5 (JavaScript) has some really awesome additions… and then there’s WebSockets with event-driven bidirectional data between the web browser and server…combine this with NodeJS…and holy cow! So fun…. the future looks so bright. :) I’m so excited about the future of the Web.
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