[nodejs] My desk is URDESK (a very good client for node)

2014-02-10 Thread Dennis Kane
(If this is tl;dr, just go to http://urdesk.net right now) What does it mean for something to be "a good node client"? When I think of a client for node.js, I think of a dynamic user experience that doesn't really require any page refreshes, and that stirs up a whole bunch of good feelings as r

[nodejs] Re: A decent client for a node backend...

2014-01-25 Thread Dennis Kane
sts. This will allow for the rapid development of application specific data structures within the browser, and then deploying these same structures with just a couple of key strokes from the browser's own terminal. Give it a try! On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 8:28:16 AM UTC-5, Denni

Re: [nodejs] A decent client for a node backend...

2014-01-24 Thread Dennis Kane
e Dock. Make the dock really small, and the maginification level really big in order to see something cool! > Just that the menu doesnt close if you click te title again. Not sure quite what you mean, but I can assure you this thing is FAR from being bug-free :) > But other than that - gr

[nodejs] Re: A decent client for a node backend...

2014-01-24 Thread Dennis Kane
) To try this out, just send a message to "Dennis" that I can then respond to. Okay, I wrote this entire post in Nanim, and I have to say it was quite a pleasing experience :-) (I'll teach you guys how to really put it to use sometime later.) On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 8:2

[nodejs] A decent client for a node backend...

2014-01-22 Thread Dennis Kane
It has been kind of an obsession for me to create the kind of end-user experience that will really allow node to start actually being put to use. I've spent pretty much an entire year of full time coding getting this thing ready for prime time. The only caveat is that you need a Chrome browse

[nodejs] Re: What Editor do you use?

2013-01-04 Thread Dennis Kane
I am using a JS implementation of an Unix style ncurses-like editor (using ) on my site that I call archiTex. I wanted it to incorporate my favorite parts of nano and vim. I like nano because of its sheer simplicity, and I like vim for all the fancy functionality. I d

[nodejs] Re: Simple chat-room example?

2013-01-04 Thread Dennis Kane
I've recently been hip deep working on a chatroom on my site @ http://luvluvluv.info. I wouldn't call it "simple", but I do use socket.io and I can testify it is da bomb. My site is supposed to be an in-browser OSX kind of thing. It's all javascript... client and server. No markup, no css,

[nodejs] One JS interface to rule them all?

2012-12-27 Thread Dennis Kane
I am writing this in a canvas-based, curses-style text editor that I have incorporated into my site at http://luvluvluv.info. But more about that later... I started working on the current incarnation of my site just over 3 months ago... my challenge was to develop the best possible JavaScript

[nodejs] Dr. Strangecode, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web

2012-11-14 Thread Dennis Kane
A couple months ago, I started on a project to make a purely JavaScript, in-browser version of Mac OS X. This is my third attempt at creating this kind of thing, and hopefully, the third time is the charm! You can find it at http://luvluvluv.info. For obvious reasons, I am primarily interes

Re: [nodejs] Re: "Evil OS X"... the perfect client to a node server!

2012-10-08 Thread Dennis Kane
ort. 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 > > wrote: > >> See the newest features here--> >> http:

[nodejs] Re: "Evil OS X"... the perfect client to a node server!

2012-10-05 Thread Dennis Kane
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 D

[nodejs] Re: "Evil OS X"... the perfect client to a node server!

2012-10-02 Thread Dennis Kane
I hope you are all aware that I fully expect the reception that I have gotten here. The accusations of mental illness and trollishness are fully expected. The only problem is that I have a real life outside of professional programming circles. I know what it takes to make real things happen

[nodejs] Re: "Evil OS X"... the perfect client to a node server!

2012-10-01 Thread Dennis Kane
Respectfully, I am not the typical poster here. I am a revolutionary and a trailblazer, and everything I do is geared for maximum effect. I have precisely zero interest in working for paychecks or even creating something for the purpose of selling out to a corporation. I am interested in sta

[nodejs] Re: "Evil OS X"... the perfect client to a node server!

2012-09-30 Thread Dennis Kane
My most recent work can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NTjmy7PbD0 I have added functionality to the bottom dock, including a working Trashcan. I have still received precisely zero real interest in any of this & I am really eager to get together with programmers who want to get so

[nodejs] Re: "Evil OS X"... the perfect client to a node server!

2012-09-28 Thread Dennis Kane
Cool! When I scrolled down to the section called "The Central Role of Language", I realized that the "anti-mac" concept was something I could work with. I am a believer in the concept of leveraging Javascript in order to devise a kind of higher level computing language that can deal very well

[nodejs] Re: "Evil OS X"... the perfect client to a node server!

2012-09-27 Thread Dennis Kane
sessing so much over serving up full fledged HTML documents, and to start thinking about how to offer services that deliver compact, essential nuggets of JSON data that can be delivered into these kinds of in-browser GUIs at blazingly fast speeds. On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:36:37 PM

Re: [nodejs] "Evil OS X"... the perfect client to a node server!

2012-09-26 Thread Dennis Kane
to begin thinking about the Web at a higher level than just one-to-one mappings between HTTP URLs and pages of HTML content. On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:17:14 PM UTC-4, Rick Waldron wrote: > > Dennis, > > Have you ever seen this? > https://www.google.com/search?q=webos+eri

[nodejs] "Evil OS X"... the perfect client to a node server!

2012-09-25 Thread Dennis Kane
I was thinking of just responding to this old thread, 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

[nodejs] Re: Why node + chrome rules the world...

2012-09-14 Thread Dennis Kane
h the current state of my code (and the current state of my coding skills :) I need to refactor the hell out of this thing and approach it from a much higher level before I can start thinking about doing dynamic code insertion... On Saturday, September 1, 2012 8:11:54 AM UTC-4, Dennis Kane wrote:

Re: [nodejs] Re: Why node + chrome rules the world...

2012-09-11 Thread Dennis Kane
gt; > These desktops were a great idea 5 years ago when there weren't any web > apps and the word "cloud" wasn't even used, now these small projects would > have a hard time competing with Google Docs et al. > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Dennis Kane > &

Re: [nodejs] Re: Why node + chrome rules the world...

2012-09-07 Thread Dennis Kane
Well, the necessary technology didn't really exist years ago. I rely very heavily on node/socket.io/websockets for the server side and Chrome's constantly developing API in the client. Trying to implement my current site with older JS engines and HTTP servers along with AJAX would be next to

Re: [nodejs] Re: Why node + chrome rules the world...

2012-09-07 Thread Dennis Kane
on mine? Cheers! On Friday, September 7, 2012 5:22:03 AM UTC-4, Jorge wrote: > > On 07/09/2012, at 10:32, Dennis Kane wrote: > > > > On Friday, September 7, 2012 1:30:55 AM UTC-4, Karl Tiedt wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Dennis Kane wrote: &

Re: [nodejs] Re: Why node + chrome rules the world...

2012-09-07 Thread Dennis Kane
arl Tiedt wrote: > > Have you seen the Lucid Desktop project? > http://dojofoundation.org/projects/lucid-desktop > > -Karl Tiedt > > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Dennis Kane > > wrote: > > > > Hi! I've got a really slick Desktop GUI worki

[nodejs] Re: Why node + chrome rules the world...

2012-09-06 Thread Dennis Kane
Hi! I've got a really slick Desktop GUI working that almost rivals my MacBook:) What I am creating is basically a browser based operating system that will allow you to plug in arbitrary application modules. I want the modules to be dynamically loadable, using node as the application server.

[nodejs] Why node + chrome rules the world...

2012-09-01 Thread Dennis Kane
I first became aware of server side javascript about a year and a half ago. Hacking away on the server got me comfortable with JS itself, and I then started seeing the possibilities inherent on the client side. I have just now finished the prototype for a website construct that fully leverages

[nodejs] Re: Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-28 Thread Dennis Kane
ts to learn and help out is welcome. You have my site and my email is on there. I'm assuming that no one here is interested in NatLang issues or how to implement them in Javascript?! On Apr 28, 9:31 am, Isaac Schlueter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:53, Dennis Kane wrote: > >

Re: [nodejs] Re: Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-26 Thread Dennis Kane
On Thursday, April 26, 2012 10:57:26 AM UTC-7, Mark Hahn wrote: > > I guess the question everyone is thinking (or asking) is why are you here? > I can understand the recruiting, but I can't think of any other reason. > > Which means: if I don't want to give away the entirety of my labors that I'

Re: [nodejs] Re: Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-26 Thread Dennis Kane
On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 7:07:52 PM UTC-7, Isaac Schlueter wrote: > > > The MIT license in node (as well as the MIT and BSD licenses in the > vast majority of open source node programs) explicitly allows use for > closed-source commercial applications. If Dennis wants to keep his > source c

Re: [nodejs] Re: Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-26 Thread Dennis Kane
On Thursday, April 26, 2012 3:35:48 AM UTC-7, shawn wilson wrote: > > Per parsing language, you might want to look at what python's nltk and > Java's gate (less familiar with the later) have done for inspiration > Yeah, I saw the python nltk yesterday just to see what was currently out there. De

Re: [nodejs] Re: Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-25 Thread Dennis Kane
> > You don't come off as an asshole -- and besides, we have no problem with > assholes: we're developers. Saying the things you're saying, to the > audience you're saying them to -- well, it's that you come off as an idiot. > The good news is this is a lot easier to fix. > > I'm an idiot bec

Re: [nodejs] Re: Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-25 Thread Dennis Kane
> Seems like you still have a long way to go to reach that. :D > > I don't think it should be too much longer before I can start making some sales calls based on the progress I've already made. > > > Well, your long-time goal is to make a good program that can answer > questions using some lo

[nodejs] Re: Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-25 Thread Dennis Kane
OK guys, firefighter Kane to the rescue. I said "tad". For full disclosure, I've been using Debian for many years, and I feel it is by far the best OS in existence. I am writing this in nano, the source code of which I have done some hacking on. I'm here because I can't do this thing by myse

Re: [nodejs] Re: Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-25 Thread Dennis Kane
tt Sergeant wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Dennis Kane wrote: > >> I do find the whole open source movement a tad pointless. For me, the >> source code always takes a back seat to good API documentation, well >> commented header files, decent man pages, a

Re: [nodejs] Re: Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-25 Thread Dennis Kane
tt Sergeant wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Dennis Kane wrote: > >> I do find the whole open source movement a tad pointless. For me, the >> source code always takes a back seat to good API documentation, well >> commented header files, decent man pages, a

Re: [nodejs] Re: Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-25 Thread Dennis Kane
tt Sergeant wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Dennis Kane wrote: > >> I do find the whole open source movement a tad pointless. For me, the >> source code always takes a back seat to good API documentation, well >> commented header files, decent man pages, a

[nodejs] Re: Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-24 Thread Dennis Kane
Now that I think about it more, Javascript makes the entire issue of open source much less urgent given that one can pass in their own custom functions, either for replacement purposes or for extension. I'll just have to provide the API for what kinds of arguments will be passed in and what sh

Re: [nodejs] Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-24 Thread Dennis Kane
To open source or not to open source... THAT is the question! Do I want to SAVE the world or do I want to OWN it, haha ;) I really do want to keep it close to the vest at the moment. I am not feeling too liberal right now. But I would like to start getting a team together to help make it comm

[nodejs] Re: Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-24 Thread Dennis Kane
d Zebulon or There is a girl She is named Zelda It currently looks for any arbitrary sequence of characters after the word "named" and then adds this sequence into the list of recognized names. On Apr 24, 7:51 am, Jann Horn wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:50:25AM -0700, Dennis

Re: [nodejs] Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-23 Thread Dennis Kane
idden. That way academics and users with other needs could > play with it and contribute. > > Ted > > On Apr 23, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Dennis Kane wrote: > > The site is powered by an express server, which exec's a separate node AI > process for each new IP address. Eac

[nodejs] Your thoughts wanted on a node AI project

2012-04-23 Thread Dennis Kane
The site is powered by an express server, which exec's a separate node AI process for each new IP address. Each process will automatically end after 10 minutes of inactivity. You can interface with the process either through a browser at ai.webcyte.net or by sending a URL encoded GET request