Apple iPad: Flash not supported? Choose GWT over Flex!

This maybe a temporary battle, but if iPad is NOT supporting Flash/Flex then my choice for developing RIA Web applications remains Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

Apple iPad - tablet powered by 1GHz A4 chip

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad/

Perfect - "Nie płacz Ewka"

Nie placz ewka bo tu miejsca brak
na twe babskie lzy
po ulicy mjlosc hula wiatr
wsrod rozbitych szyb
Patrz poeci sliczny prawdy sens
roztwonili w grach
w pollitrowkach pustych S.O.S.
wysylaja w swiat

Ref.
Zegnam was juz wiem
nie zalatwie wszystkich pilnych spraw
ide sam wlasnie tam
gdzie czekaja mnje
Tam przyjaciol kilku mam od lat
dla nich zawsze soiewam dla nich gram
jeszcze raz zegnam was
nie spotkamy sie

Proza zycia to przyjazni kat
peka cienka nic
telewizor meble maly fiat
oto marzen szczyt
Hej prorocy moi z gniewnych lat
obrastacie w tluszcz
juz was w swoje szpony dopadl szmal
zdrada plynie z ust

Ref.
Zegnam was juz wiem
nie zalatwie wszystkich pilnych spraw
ide sam wlasnie tam
gdzie czekaja mnje
Tam przyjaciol kilku mam od lat
dla nich zawsze soiewam dla nich gram
jeszcze raz zegnam was
nie spotkamy sie

Budka Suflera - "Jolka, Jolka Pamiętasz..."

How to create a label with an image background in GWT

In order to create a label with an image background, you will need to use an AbsolutePanel with an image background defined in CSS and add a Label to it. The reason behind using an AbsolutePanel is because this type of panel allows for positioning all children absolutely, allowing them to overlap. Keep in mind however that you will have to resize the panel to allow room for all its children because it will NOT resize automatically.

Here is a sample implementation of how this worked for me:

Java code in Samle.java:

AbsolutePanel absolutePanel = new AbsolutePanel();

absolutePanel.setStyleName("my_css_def");

Label myLabel = new Label("Hello world!");

absolutePanel.add(myLabel);

mainContainer.add(absolutePanel);

CSS definition in Sample.css file: 

.my_css_def {

background-image: url("../images/myPath/bg_image.png"); !important;

height: 73px;

width: 108px;

}

Great Analytics Tool

If you are looking for a great analytics tool for your website, check out Woopra. It is now out of beta. I have seen it used a little and it looks pretty impressive. The basic plan is free, but if you are needing a little bit more information, here are the plans offered 

(http://www.woopra.com/plans/)

Skates under the bean

Google NexusOne

http://mobile.techcocktail.com/2010/01/release-of-google-nexusone-adds-momentum-focus-for-app-developers/

Going to see Chipmunks

Motorola Backflip announced; hands-on impressions | CES 2010 - CNET

http://ces.cnet.com/8301-31045_1-10428131-269.html?tag=facebook2

Transparency Setting for ALL Browsers

Below is CSS definition that creates transparency for all browsers:

.opacity_70 {

filter:alpha(opacity=70);     /**for IE8*/

-moz-opacity:0.7;             /**for Mozilla*/

-khtml-opacity: 0.7;          /**for Safari 1.x*/

opacity: 0.7;                 /**for FireFox*/

}

Troy: my favorite scene and quote

The boy said: "I would never want to fight this man"
Achilles answered: "that's why no one will remember your name"

Solar Powered Skins for iPhone and iPod

Solar power iPhone skins are getting more popular for everyone. Apple devices with solar powered chargers are already available in the market, but solar powered skins are not. These skins are capable of charging an iPhone or iPod using solar energy. According to Heimbuch from TreeHugger, one of the solar power skins is capable for providing 30 minutes talk time on a 2G network with 2 hours of solar energy charging. Also these skins are shipped with a solar planner application which helps estimating the needed solar charge time during the day in order to have a working phone in the evevning.

Solar powered chargers can provide few minutes of talk time, however with high consumer demand, these devices may gain wider popularity leading to more competition and better quality overall.

Hunter gatherer (or rather scavenger) lifestyle and diet

Ever since university times (Cultural Anthropology major), I was thinking about the lives and the diets of our ancestors. 

After all, the last 10,000 years of agriculture, is just a drop in the bucket comparing with 5 million years of evolution of our body and digestive system.

What is human bipedalism optimized for?

Our ancestors have spent most of their days traveling their territories in search of edible nuts, seeds, plants small animals, and rarely a carcass of the kill. The travel distance was varied depending on the climate, there are hunter-gatherer communities that have to do very little actually for subsistence, maybe few of hours per day, but most likely it was something like 10 to 15 miles per day. We are built for distance travel - search and slow, long pursuits of wounded animals, on the other hand humans are terrible sprinters, slower than almost any animal out there.

What was the diet of our pre-agricultural ancestors?

Our diet was definitely composed largely of VARIOUS seasonal nuts, fruits, edible plants which were on average low in starch and sugars, otherwise we would not develop such craving for sweets, but high in fiber and proteins, in addition a portion of the diet were small animals ranging from insects to rabbits. Yes, for many of our ancestors it was "taste like rabbit" not "like chicken", at least judging by the number of rabbit bones found. Fatty foods were considered premium in every culture. 

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I came across this article, which I found thought-provoking:

Like many New York bachelors, John Durant tries to keep his apartment presentable — just in case he should ever bring home a future Mrs. Durant. He shares the fifth-floor walk-up with three of his buddies, but the place is tidy and he never forgets to water the plants.

Béatrice de Géa for The New York Times

NEW ICE AGE Meat storage for John Durant's paleo diet.

The one thing that Mr. Durant worries might spook a female guest is his most recent purchase: a three-foot-tall refrigerated meat locker that sits in a corner of his living room. That is where he keeps his organ meat and deer ribs.

Mr. Durant, 26, who works in online advertising, is part of a small New York subculture whose members seek good health through a selective return to the habits of their Paleolithic ancestors.

Or, as he and some of his friends describe themselves, they are cavemen.

The caveman lifestyle, in Mr. Durant’s interpretation, involves eating large quantities of meat and then fasting between meals to approximate the lean times that his distant ancestors faced between hunts. Vegetables and fruit are fine, but he avoids foods like bread that were unavailable before the invention of agriculture. Mr. Durant believes the human body evolved for a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and his goal is to wean himself off what he sees as many millenniums of bad habits.

These urban cavemen also choose exercise routines focused on sprinting and jumping, to replicate how a prehistoric person might have fled from a mastodon.



Resources

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/fashion/10caveman.html?sudsredirect=true

Serendipity, my faith and my ultimate demise

Many times we have heard the saying "if you love samebody, set them free".

 until recently I have not fully understood that statement. I've
always thought it meant to give people personal freedom and they will  choose the right thing (hopefully you). 

Well, things don't work that way and often you loose.., but along the way I have learned more about life:
1) there are true loves (yes, plural)
2) you never stop loving people you have trully loved
3) serendipity is a powerful force

So what all that means?
You may go thru life and meet a lot of people, if you are blessed with smarts and looks a lot of people will like you back and as long as you don't hibernate somewhere under the rock, 

you will have opportunities for relationships short and long. 

The twist is that you may get
farther and farther away, it will hurt, it will feel like a betrayal.
That is where "let it go" comes into the picture, because after
meeting all of these dates, after having your heart torn apart, we
realize in the end who the great people in our lives were and with a
little luck, we gravitate back towards them. No worries, with great
love comes a great amount of forgivness, understanding and acceptance.
Hopefully pride does never come in front of love.
Like for many other people, I had periods in my life when I have gone
from one relationship to another, many times over, looking for that
special someone just to realize what I have always returned to the
same places. Most of the time the place will be empty, but with any
luck some day that special person will be waiting there for you
precisely for the same reason you came there.

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

OfficePort Chicago: doing the "gigs" for work

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9517202

Color Palette Generator

Here is a very nice color palette generator that creates both a dull and vibrant color palette based off of a photo url.

http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/

Skate till you drop from exhaustion!

True Lies - Tango

What Makes Farmville so Sticky and Viral

http://blog.pekpongpaet.com/2010/01/02/what-makes-farmville-so-sticky-and-viral/