Funny thing, I said much the same as you have here and got a gnarly chastising.
-Rick On Monday, October 8, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Joshua Gross wrote: > Dennis, this is a developer forum. If you want to peddle your software and > aren't willing to show something besides videos, you're in the wrong place. > > Also I'm not going to watch a 15 minute video. You're not selling yourself > very well, I kindly advise you to move on so this stops clogging my inbox :) > > -- Joshua Gross > Christian / SpanDeX / BA Candidate of Computer Science, UW-Madison 2013 > 414-377-1041 / http://www.joshisgross.com > > > On Oct 8, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Dennis Kane <dkan...@gmail.com > (mailto:dkan...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > Why do you want the code so bad? It's not like there's any kind of fancy > > algorithms at work. There are many many open source windowing packages out > > there. It's not exactly rocket science, this. It's all been done many > > times before. The only difference is that this one is *my* baby! Besides, > > you are welcome to all the code of my desktop prototype on my site at > > luvluvluv.info... it's just sitting there on the server for the taking. > > > > I am mainly using this thing as blackmail to get people to be interested in > > being my friend. I want to do some real world community building, and > > something like this will go a long way to get a cooperative business up and > > running. > > > > Furthermore... you do realize that asking another programmer to "just show > > me your code" is exactly the same as asking a girl to "just show me your > > breasts", right? I mean, I have nothing against it in principle, but, my > > god... I hardly know ye!!! > > > > My lastest work includes that rubber-band selection feature as well as > > dropping icons directly onto folder icons (with that "open folder" hover > > trick). I have also included some basic image file support. > > > > Latest video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL5r0b7WWvU > > On Friday, October 5, 2012 5:56:26 PM UTC-4, sotonin wrote: > > > Code.... post it.... else Zzzz > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Dennis Kane <dka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > See the newest features here--> > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_2DwueGLM > > > > > > > > The current version of the program now includes drag and drop > > > > functionality of text files from the native desktop straight into the > > > > browser desktop or (any of the subfolders). The difference between my > > > > drag and drop and all the HTML5 demos that you see on the web is that > > > > the dropped files immediately become icons that are integrated into the > > > > program. > > > > > > > > I will soon start working on getting multimedia icons/files working, so > > > > you'll be able to drop those directly in too. Then I will probably do > > > > a very basic kind of image editing demo that will allow you to change > > > > individual pixels or some such nonsense. But I don't want to get > > > > bogged down in the details of any particular application, because I > > > > always want to stay focused on the big picture of creating a totally > > > > powerful and intuitive way to organize our online lives. > > > > > > > > Anyway, I know I am quite a controversial figure here, but there should > > > > be no controversy that this thing is just about ready for prime time. > > > > I really do need to start getting interested people on board who would > > > > like to help me push the web forward. The basic mission statement for > > > > the venture will basically be that the "old web" (HTML4/version 1.0) is > > > > dead and gone. If anyone calls in search of help on their Flintstone > > > > era <html> documents with all of their <a href> and <div> tags laying > > > > about, we'll just point them in an entirely new direction. If they > > > > still insist on doing things the old way, we'll just hang up on them… > > > > This thing is all about the future! > > > > > > > > We can easily develop libraries of high-level interface widgets that > > > > people just need to attach event listeners to. There will be no angle > > > > brackets in sight! > > > > <hand><coded><html><markup></is></so></last></millenium>! > > > > > > > > Come one, come all, for the thrill of your lives :) > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:36:37 PM UTC-4, Dennis Kane wrote: > > > > > I was thinking of just responding to this old thread > > > > > (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/nodejs/bEhSbsm24Y4), > > > > > in which I talk about the browser based Desktop that I've been > > > > > working on, but the new thing I've been doing for the past week is so > > > > > superior that I thought it deserved a completely new thead. By the > > > > > way, I know this forum is all about server side Javascript, but there > > > > > is not really any serious place one can go on the web that talks > > > > > about the client side. Besides, with socket.io (http://socket.io) & > > > > > websockets... I don't really make much of a distinction between > > > > > client and server anymore. I just know that there's no reason to do > > > > > a document.getElementById() call in node :) > > > > > > > > > > This new thing is a totally shocking clone of OS X. I knew I was > > > > > going to have to start over from the ground up, because my previous > > > > > code base was so sh*tty, haha! I have really been concentrating on > > > > > getting a nice, tight little API that developers will positively > > > > > drool over. I don't want to make this thing publicly available for > > > > > many reasons... but you can check out a youtube vid > > > > > (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_W19QokXk) that shows it in action, > > > > > and I still have my same old crappy prototype online at > > > > > http://luvluvluv.info (http://luvluvluv.info/). Well, hopefully this > > > > > is proof that I am able to do some cool stuff, and hopefully summa > > > > > yous will want to start being my friend now, LOL!!! > > > > > > > > > > And get this... the current, uncompressed js file size is only 54kb! > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > > > Posting guidelines: > > > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to nod...@googlegroups.com > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > nodejs+un...@googlegroups.com > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:nodejs@googlegroups.com) > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. 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