Object versus Browser Detection

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/support.html

Statistically Improbable Phrases within a CMS

Look at http://sip.s-anand.net/ for reference on what a Statistically Improbable Phrase is, and it has an immediate and fun way to play with the concept.

Here is my idea for a kind of Content Management System, with companies that make standardized widgets as the best use scenario.

The company's product names, model numbers, prices, and other specifics are recorded as the text corpus. In all data entry, even email composing, the live typing is compared to the corpus. A tag cloud with oddest words shown in high contrast is ever present in a box near the data entry.

Corpora could have various granularities. Speaking in extremes of large and small, a corpus of all (or almost all) company online dialogue is a large example, and a corpus of model names/numbers/prices could be a tiny corpus example.

I am not talking about Natural Language processing, although that could be more complex implementation of this role. I'm thinking more of a spellchecker data entry police that plugs all corporate dialogue into itself to show anomalous input. The easiest example is with a model number 5100AGT, I am writing an email and type 51000AGT, it shows up as anomalous.

The interesting place all this goes is A.I.-ish. The machine sees when the company is staying within behavioral bounds, and when the company is deviating from a norm. Example: the company normally does business in the midwest region around Chicago. Flights and hotels are regularly booked in Lansing, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee. The first trip by sales staff to Los Angeles stands out as a deviance from the norm, and in human terms can be expressed as gains in market territory. Funny: note that A.I. should only check sales trips with sales trips. The legal team suddenly traveling outside the normal sphere is not a sign of increased markets, but a sign of possible larger legal problems.

This is not to deprecate the humble and effective selection menu. Very narrow data entry tasks are fully served by these menus. This SIP idea is more for the open end of company dialogue, where language is a little more natural but still redundant.

I may be showing my ignorance more than my brilliance in this post. Google has long had the Google Search Appliance (GSA). A really smart company would have already cobbled together a CMS hack on top of the GSA service.

Javascript Regex Reference

http://www.evolt.org/article/Regular_Expressions_in_JavaScript/17/36435/

Jitter Explained

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Amazing Windows GUI Emulation

Warning: this site almost surely has evil virus things for Windows computers. Took the screenshot for record. They did an amazing job making it look like a real Windows environment.

Using OO Javascript to create DOM elements and CSS Style

A lot of javascript tricks use CSS classes to toggle graphic properties, such as .mygoldbackground { ... } .mygreenbackground {...} and the js resets the classname of the HTML element. This is fine for most scenarios.

I am writing games where the CSS is much more dynamic, and I was constantly having to edit the CSS to match up with the game board layout ( for early prototype example of my players and game boards, see: http://my-toolbox.appspot.com/javascript.js?queryvalue=critters%201.2&dbtab=show )

So I am going to 1) create all game DOM elements with js 2) set all game DOM CSS with js.

Here is the core toolset of code for doing that:

• http://my-toolbox.appspot.com/javascript.js?queryvalue=javascript%20object%20oriented%20createElement%20cssText%20&dbtab=show
• http://my-toolbox.appspot.com/javascript.js?queryvalue=javascript%20object%20oriented%20DOM%20makebox&dbtab=show

Documenting behavior of the Google Cloud

This is a non-dynamic webpage documenting the database object insert timing for the Google Gdata object. I thought the randomness of insert completion of each node to be interesting and shows the "cloud" in action. Note the python code at the bottom of this page (here). The "nodes" were executed 1...64 in the python script, so it is easy to see where the cloud disengages from that linearity.

1. Node:1 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.353281
2. Node:3 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.413692
3. Node:5 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.477040
4. Node:7 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.534829
5. Node:10 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.624858
6. Node:11 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.667277
7. Node:13 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.725053
8. Node:2 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.382015
9. Node:4 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.443903
10. Node:6 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.507742
11. Node:8 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.562350
12. Node:9 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.593376
13. Node:12 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.697803
14. Node:14 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.755138
15. Node:16 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.843447
16. Node:18 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.907231
17. Node:20 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.965684
18. Node:22 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.037075
19. Node:24 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.100084
20. Node:26 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.176800
21. Node:28 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.236621
22. Node:30 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.297839
23. Node:32 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.362423
24. Node:34 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.422469
25. Node:36 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.477692
26. Node:38 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.532586
27. Node:40 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.589649
28. Node:42 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.651617
29. Node:44 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.716515
30. Node:46 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.780054
31. Node:50 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.916035
32. Node:52 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.974097
33. Node:54 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:25.034449
34. Node:56 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:25.092311
35. Node:59 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:25.192227
36. Node:61 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:25.258557
37. Node:63 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:25.326543
38. Node:15 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.785200
39. Node:17 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.875937
40. Node:19 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:23.934721
41. Node:21 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.003711
42. Node:23 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.068636
43. Node:25 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.131330
44. Node:27 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.207301
45. Node:29 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.268193
46. Node:31 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.331993
47. Node:33 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.394126
48. Node:35 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.451277
49. Node:37 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.504942
50. Node:39 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.560311
51. Node:41 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.621935
52. Node:43 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.685583
53. Node:45 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.752918
54. Node:47 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.810532
55. Node:48 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.851659
56. Node:49 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.885912
57. Node:51 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:24.945490
58. Node:53 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:25.006673
59. Node:55 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:25.062369
60. Node:57 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:25.124670
61. Node:58 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:25.157359
62. Node:60 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:25.225718
63. Node:62 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:25.293517
64. Node:64 Insert time:2008-10-23 10:56:25.360900

The insert db code:

def makeWorldNode(mynode,mygroup): world = World(node=mynode, group=mygroup) db.put(world) def makeWorld(limit, group): mylimit = try2int(limit) mygroup = str(group) for node in range(1, mylimit): mynode = str(node) makeWorldNode(mynode,mygroup) class Makeworld(webapp.RequestHandler): def get(self): limit = 65 group = "no_group" makeWorld(limit, group) query = db.Query(World) template_values = {'your_ip': your_ip, 'your_user_agent': your_user_agent, 'query': query} path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'make.txt') self.response.out.write(template.render(path, template_values))