[OT] Just won 3rd place on a Firefox OS App contest in Brazil.

2013-02-03 Thread Andre Garzia
Hey Folks, I am at a conference with eight thousand people camping on a tech venue with 30GB connection. We had a contest for mobile app creation for Firefox OS and I won 3rd place :-D Now, back to the normal programming where I code LiveCode and help with the kickstarter Cheers andre -- http:

Re: [OT] Just won 3rd place on a Firefox OS App contest in Brazil.

2013-02-03 Thread Monte Goulding
Well done Andre! -- M E R Goulding Software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! On 03/02/2013, at 7:32 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > I am at a conference with eight thousand people camping on a tech venue > with 30GB connection. We had a contest for mobile app creation for

Re: [OT] Just won 3rd place on a Firefox OS App contest in Brazil.

2013-02-03 Thread Richmond
On 03/02/13 10:32, Andre Garzia wrote: Hey Folks, I am at a conference with eight thousand people camping on a tech venue with 30GB connection. We had a contest for mobile app creation for Firefox OS and I won 3rd place :-D Now, back to the normal programming where I code LiveCode and help with

Re: [OT] Just won 3rd place on a Firefox OS App contest in Brazil.

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Rossi
Fantastic Andre. What does your app do? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On 2/3/13 12:32 AM, "Andre Garzia" wrote: >Hey Folks, > >I am at a conference with eight thousand people camping on a tech venue >with 30GB connection. We had a contest for mobile app cr

Re: # 8 on Kicktraq!

2013-02-03 Thread David Bovill
Kevin - my take on the KickStarter marketing is that it is squarely targeted at the HyperCard, and perhaps more traditional educational markets. I think this is strong - and there is still a good deal of mileage to get with this group. The big "problem" with that aspect of the pitch is the percepti

Re: [OT] Just won 3rd place on a Firefox OS App contest in Brazil.

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Morrow
Outstanding! Thanks for letting us know. What does it do? Screen shots? -- Scott Morrow On Feb 3, 2013, at 12:32 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Hey Folks, > > I am at a conference with eight thousand people camping on a tech venue > with 30GB connection. We had a contest for mobile app creation f

Re: Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

2013-02-03 Thread David Bovill
Yes - this is a strange one! Warning - those of you that dislike lawyers skip this email :) "Apple won't accept any GPL apps" - the obvious thought is that it's those crafty closed box Apple people again... where in fact it seems that Apple are not enforcing anything - it's the open source people

Re: just for fun: pop quiz

2013-02-03 Thread Dave Cragg
I had a vague memory of this and checked in an old script and found the following: read from file laFile[pUrl] for 4096 if the result <> empty and the result <> "eof" then ... Dave On 3 Feb 2013, at 00:36, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Without looking in the Dictionary, what would you expect the v

Open source, LC server and revigniter

2013-02-03 Thread Dave Kilroy
Can anyone explain what the situation would be with open source, LiveCode server and revigniter? I sure I don't understand something basic about how open source works - I think I get it in terms of distributed software, but what about code that lives on a server? If I currently create a web a

Open Source LC, Documentation and Thousand Island Dressing.

2013-02-03 Thread Richmond
I have just read Mark Waddingham's seminal article on O-S Livecode and naturalistic language . . . . . . and . . . 1. If things really develop as fast as quite a few folk seem to think they might how is the Documentation going to keep pace? 2. If we have a flowering of forks and sub-forks h

Re: Open source, LC server and revigniter

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Miller
Scenario A: your license lapsing does not alter software you have already distributed. It prevents you from editing/updating your software and then posting an update, until you renew that is. Scenario B: No, you don't have to release code to people who simply interact with your website. There is a

Re: # 8 on Kicktraq!

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Miller
Thanks David. Its times like these I almost wish we had fewer messages :) We'll take another look at the campaign tomorrow to see if we can tweak / include stronger messaging to better hit some of the OSS types. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ ke...@runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/ LiveCo

Re: [OT] Just won 3rd place on a Firefox OS App contest in Brazil.

2013-02-03 Thread Robert Sneidar
Yer the bomb, baby! ;-) Bob On Feb 3, 2013, at 12:32 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Hey Folks, > > I am at a conference with eight thousand people camping on a tech venue > with 30GB connection. We had a contest for mobile app creation for Firefox > OS and I won 3rd place :-D > > Now, back to the

Re: [OT] Just won 3rd place on a Firefox OS App contest in Brazil.

2013-02-03 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Fantastic Andre. What does your app do? Apps are supposed to do something? Argh; knew I was missing something :) congratulations -- Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mail

Re: Open source, LC server and revigniter

2013-02-03 Thread Monte Goulding
Unless you are distributing you web app code with LC Server then it won't be under GPL as far as I know. Just like using MySQL for your server db. On 03/02/2013, at 10:47 PM, Dave Kilroy wrote: > Can anyone explain what the situation would be with open source, LiveCode > server and revigniter?

Re: just for fun: pop quiz

2013-02-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jerry Jensen wrote: >>> On 03/02/2013, at 11:36 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >>> Without looking in the Dictionary, what would you expect the value of tResult to be after successful execution of: open file tValidFilePath for read read from file tValidFilePath until EOF

Re: just for fun: pop quiz

2013-02-03 Thread Monte Goulding
On 04/02/2013, at 6:08 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Can you think of a circumstance in which you've already specified to read > until EOF, and the command executes flawlessly just as you've asked it to, > yet you still need to be notified that it reached EOF? No -- Monte Goulding M E R Gould

Re: just for fun: pop quiz

2013-02-03 Thread Robert Sneidar
I think one of my guesses would have actually made more sense. Have the result return the number of characters read. That way you could check for zero in the result, and if not, you have the size of your chunk ready to go. But EOF in the result is surprising. It's hard to imagine the developer l

Re: Open source, LC server and revigniter

2013-02-03 Thread Dave Kilroy2
Thanks for the replies Kevin & Monte >From what you've both written it appears there will be no difference from the current situation if we use LC server (and possibly also using revigniter) to make a website in the future - Yay! (please let me know if this is not correct) Kind regards Dave

Re: just for fun: pop quiz

2013-02-03 Thread Peter Haworth
I ran into this a few weeks ago when I was having problems reading a file. Turned out it was because I should have been doing a binary read, but seeing EOF in the result made me think I'd run into some sort of error like an unexpected EOF or something - wasted a couple of hours trying to track tha

Re: to find the first numeric line?

2013-02-03 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 02/02/2013 18:56, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/2/13 3:08 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: There's no need to decrease kBrute to deal with short lines, because we still do a full search (in this case using filter) when we get down to a block of size kBrute. Aha. The filter is the part I missed. I get i

Re: just for fun: pop quiz

2013-02-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/3/13 1:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Can you think of a circumstance in which you've already specified to read until EOF, and the command executes flawlessly just as you've asked it to, yet you still need to be notified that it reached EOF? The "read from file" command is a subset of the g

Re: just for fun: pop quiz

2013-02-03 Thread Robert Sneidar
Once again, Jacque puts the kibosh on our "it's a bug!" session by injecting facts! You can't have any fun around here anymore. ;-) Bob On Feb 3, 2013, at 12:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/3/13 1:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Can you think of a circumstance in which you've already s

Re: just for fun: pop quiz

2013-02-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Sunday, February 3, 2013, 12:40:43 PM, you wrote: > In the case of sockets and drivers it is possible to read without error > but not receive all the data due to communication issues. In that case > you'd want to know if the read had paused or had really finished. I was about to post the

Re: [OT] Just won 3rd place on a Firefox OS App contest in Brazil.

2013-02-03 Thread Andre Garzia
:-D The app will decode photos of QR codes and present you options based on the content of the decoded string. For example, if it was a web address it will give you options to view it, add to your bookmarks or share it on facebook... :D On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On

Re: just for fun: pop quiz

2013-02-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/3/13 3:08 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Sunday, February 3, 2013, 12:40:43 PM, you wrote: In the case of sockets and drivers it is possible to read without error but not receive all the data due to communication issues. In that case you'd want to know if the read had paused or had really

Re: to find the first numeric line?

2013-02-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/3/13 2:30 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: On 02/02/2013 18:56, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/2/13 3:08 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: There's no need to decrease kBrute to deal with short lines, because we still do a full search (in this case using filter) when we get down to a block of size kBrute. Aha.

Re: Java, Apple and Pork Pies.

2013-02-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/3/13 1:49 AM, Richmond wrote: Really? I am going to stop believing in Apple as of now. Apple Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 12 http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33087/apple-java-for-mac-os-x-10.6 somebody somewhere is telling "porkies" to ratchet up interest or their share values methinks.

Re: just for fun: pop quiz

2013-02-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Sunday, February 3, 2013, 1:51:24 PM, you wrote: > On 2/3/13 3:08 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> Jacque- >> >> Sunday, February 3, 2013, 12:40:43 PM, you wrote: >> >>> In the case of sockets and drivers it is possible to read without error >>> but not receive all the data due to communication

Slashdotted

2013-02-03 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Got home, checked slashdot out as usual. See a headline that resembles what livecode is trying to do. Read the summary and find out it is talking about livecode! Woo! -- Regards, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: just for fun: pop quiz

2013-02-03 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Feb 3, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Jacque- > > Sunday, February 3, 2013, 1:51:24 PM, you wrote: > >> On 2/3/13 3:08 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >>> Jacque- >>> >>> Sunday, February 3, 2013, 12:40:43 PM, you wrote: >>> In the case of sockets and drivers it is possible to read wit

Re: Slashdotted

2013-02-03 Thread Graham Samuel
Yes, but the story needs some positive reinforcement. I know nothing about Slashdot and its style, but I really hope that people from this community that know their way around the SD world will oblige. Graham (a long way after Kevin) Sent from my iPad On 4 Feb 2013, at 00:04, Andrew Kluthe wr

Re: Java, Apple and Pork Pies.

2013-02-03 Thread Richmond
On 04/02/13 00:31, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/3/13 1:49 AM, Richmond wrote: Really? I am going to stop believing in Apple as of now. Apple Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 12 http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33087/apple-java-for-mac-os-x-10.6 somebody somewhere is telling "porkies" to ratchet u