License eek!

So we do have our location/diversity/splinter mapping application. Some of the maps (all?) we provide use data coming from OpenStreetMap. The OpenStreetMap data is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic (CC-by-SA). And it was highlighted that we most likely fail on the attribution part. I hope we will resolve this issue soon but it is not really clear how one should properly attribute the OpenStreetMap Project and or its individual contributors.

Flying back to Taipei

Yesterday I spend most my day with watching videos that featured Alan Kay. These included videos about Squeak, Seaside, Croquet, demos of old (1977!) 3d, fully anti-aliased, zooming interfaces of the MIT. This was concluded with reading about self and PEP. When watching these kind of things I wonder why the computing world as it is today and why all these things have not made it into mainstream computing yet.


I will soon enter a train to Frankfurt, will arrive early at the airport, board an airplane and will be back in Taipei for a couple of days. Anyone interested in talking about WebKit, Smalltalk or other things please go ahead and give me a call.

Happy

Our Taipei developers work hard, apply patches, create patches, triage bugs.

Our developer/customer base starts scratching itches and provide their fixes.



Things move forward.

Pushing things forward

There is one thing of Tiny SVG1.2 that I really like. It is the possibility to embed audio and video. For video you can do transformations, filters and the usual stuff of SVG. TinySVG1.2 is popping up in more specs and recently I began to read DIMS again and well and thanks to the support of GMIT I had a go at it.

This shows parts of the TinySVG spec and the video was replaced with Code Rush. It is dog slow and needs some refactoring to SVGSMILElement and parts of the SVG RenderObjects to be merge able. The code should popup in my holger/dims branch soon.

Hacking on the WebKit codebase is so much fun that I seriously wonder if I want more of that...