Today I was disappointed discovering that this bundle is no longer working on Textmate 2, so I forked the original repository and made the necessary changes to bring back to work this bundle.

You can install with this simple instructions:

mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/Avian/Pristine\ Copy
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Avian/Pristine\ Copy/
git clone -b textmate-2 https://github.com/sandropaganotti/copy-with-style-tmbundle.git "Copy with Style.tmbundle"

To make this work remember to switch Textmate 2 chosen theme at least once in order to make the necessary preference be saved in .plist file (it’s still in alpha .

To create the view I used Processing.js, which is very easy and simple to work with. Here’s a screenshot of the completed application:

The application is also featured in Processing.js exhibition page and a guide (in italian) is undergoing with all the technical details about its implementation.

Talking about events, the last saturday there was UGIALT.net and I had the pleasure to share a talk with Simone Chiaretta: in just 20 minutes each of us live coded a simple application using his preferred language: Ruby on Rails for me and ASP.NET MVC for Simone. It was a really enlightening experience.

The strategy I adopted was to use the ‘window.location.hash’ in order to detect which post to display. So when a browser tries to solve a post url it gets redirected to the index page with a special anchor that tell the main application which post has to be loaded first.

Here’s the part that handle this ‘anchor recognition’ in the main application:

onReady: function() {
  if (window.location.hash == ''){
    wipad.Main.init();
  }else{
    Ext.Ajax.request({
       // Here I call single.php simulating a single post navigation
        url: "<?php echo get_bloginfo('wpurl')?>" + window.location.hash.substring(1),
        success: function(response) {
          item_array = eval(response.responseText);
          wipad.Main.init((item_array[0]=="") ? null : item_array[0], item_array[1]);
        }
    });
  }
}

And here’s how I wrote single.php in order to handle both redirect and post rendering:

<?php
 // determine if we're answering an AJAX call or NO
 global $is_ajax; $is_ajax = isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']);

// if we're answering an Ajax call this means we need to render back the requested post
 if($is_ajax){
   the_post();
   $the_content = json_encode("<div class='x-htmlcontent the_content'>".apply_filters('the_content',get_the_content())."</div>");
   $the_title   = json_encode(get_the_title());
   echo "[".$the_title.", ".$the_content."]";
   exit(0);
 }

 // Otherwise redirect to the mail app with the anchor setted
 header('Location: '.str_replace(get_bloginfo('wpurl')."/", get_bloginfo('wpurl')."/#/", get_permalink()));
?>

Hope this may be useful to someone trying to figure out how to deal permalink related problems.

I’ve started deploying an iPad wordpress theme/plugin based on wptouch and powered by Sencha. Today I’ve reached the first working alpha and so I’ve decided to use it against this blog. You can try out this theme by surfing here with an iPad or a simulator; two screenshots are also available after the jump.

I’ve planned to release a first version of this plugin as soon as it include some basic features, such as permalink navigation and pages support.

update 19/06/2010: my speakers showcase gets a dedicated post at euruko2010 official blog from Ela. Thanks guys !

Euruko 2010 is over. It was a great week-end spent among cool people having fun and talking about Ruby. As Matz said “we have a nice community”, and that’s absolutely true. To honor this conference (and to test some CSS3 features ^_^ ) I’ve developed a page showcasing the speakers and their talks. For each of them you may find a short summary and some resources (slide, etc..).

Working with CSS3 highlight some browser performances problem I was unaware before, for example I tried to have a scrolling background under a shadowed box, you can try this in your browser and notice how it is slow. However if we turn the shadows off the scrolling become smooth again (try this).

Ok, nothing left to say, hope you’ll enjoy the showcase:

Per ulteriori dettagli vi rimando al post su RailsOnWave contenente l’annuncio ufficiale.

Non mi dilungo oltre e lascio gli interessati alla lettura della prima parte dell’articolo.