If you've ever been a place where the WiFi isn't great and tried to SSH into a computer, you've likely noticed the high latency (lag) between keypresses and results. This is because each packet takes a while to reach the target and come back, usually being sent multiple times by …continue
A feature I totally missed before and only saw after reading the db8 tutorial. If you have a service that you call different methods of, you probably do what I used to do:
enyo.kind({
...
components:[
{name:"downloader",kind:"PalmService",service:"palm://com.palm.downloadmanager/"}
...
]
...
startDownload:function(){
this.$.download.call …Yet again, here's another bit of Enyo goodness. Inspired by Preware, I really love it when an app accepts keyboard input straight off the bat. I don't have to click anything, I can just start typing and it knows what I want to do. That's what JustType is on the …continue
I got this error every time I tried getting an event in pygame, so I had just put a try-catch and hoped it would go away. Turns out, the init check is done for almost every pygame.key function too so I got stuck. I spent a lot of time …continue
Having trouble posting your app or an update to your app using the provided sdltts? Either you're missing features or you want/need a callback from the method when it's done, or maybe you want only a few text strings in …continue
I recently worked on re-creating this week's Weekly App Hack's hybrid plugin, sdltts. It was compiled for the device and basically closed-source, only mentioning the library it used. I'm going to post the necessary code to make it later, but first I'm posting what I found to be the …continue
I recently moved to a many-core system from years in a dual-core computer. When I moved, I continued my same Firefox habits such as multiple tabs but I started opening multiple windows too since I also have more screen space. However, it turns out ALL of these tabs and windows …continue
This problem has bugged me for a few years actually, I have tried over and over again to use a single file for all of a Django projects' python code. This has proved very possible as long as your project did not have models, because no tutorial or howto online …continue
Recently, Chrome went to 14 and many people got background updates to it. Turns out that in Chrome 13, rendering of -webkit-transforms changed handling of z-index's. Well, that means a Toaster that isn't webkit-transform'd and has a background suddenly pops up on top of anything that is webkit-transformed, such as …continue
With multiple screen sizes available for Enyo apps, it's likely that you want a single Enyo app to work on both phones, tablets, and anything else that may come out (HP or otherwise). The code below is a simple way of separating tablets from phones, but can easily be upgraded …continue