Ocassional Notes
24. March 2014
FirefoxOS development is really easy if you have experience with front-end web development. Apps are very similar to chrome extensions, with .manifest files set up to control the application, and html / css to handle the content and appearance.
27. February 2014
Humans, like computers, have long term and short term memory. An interesting feature of human memory is that if you don’t use a memory for a while, you will eventually forget it.
So, for example, assume that 20 years ago you read War and Peace. Rather than keep the details of all 1000 pages in your memory, your brain sees that the memory hasn’t been used in a while, and eventually it forgets the details of the book.
07. February 2014
I was excited yesterday to see that my Espruino, which I backed on Kick Starter, had arrived in the mail. Espruino is micro controller that is controlled via JavaScript. I’ve long wanted to experiment with micro controllers, having visions of working with arduinos or a raspberry pi, but the JavaScript control combined with the reasonable price tipped the scale in favour of Espruino.