mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 13 2008 | apollo, technology, history, computers, space, charles simonyi, design
Charles told me about this book last night.
Quoted: In each of the six Apollo landings, the astronaut in command seized control from the computer and landed with his hand on the stick. Mindell recounts the story of astronauts' desire to control their spacecraft in parallel with the history of the Apollo Guidance Computer. From the early days of aviation through the birth of spaceflight, test pilots and astronauts sought to be more than "spam in a can" despite the automatic controls, digital computers, and software developed by engineers. Digital Apollo examines the design and execution of each of the six Apollo moon landings, drawing on transcripts and data telemetry from the flights, astronaut interviews, and NASA's extensive archives.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 20 2008 | books, web development, javascript, html, css, adobe, air, apollo
Quoted: This book provides a quick introduction to developing applications for the public Beta 1 build of the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). AIR, which prior to the Beta was referred to by its code name, Apollo, is a new cross-platform desktop application runtime being developed by Adobe. While Adobe AIR allows both Flash- and HTML-based application development, this book focuses on building AIR applications using HTML and JavaScript.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 08 2006 | nyt, microsoft, avalon, wpf, vista, rich client, apollo
I ran into the PM for the Times Reader at the airport in Houston. The reader is a project done between Microsoft and The New York Times to create a rich client experience for reading the newspaper. Based on Avalon, the Times Reader is very sexy looking, adapting well to different screen layouts, supporting offline use, and using NYT's propietary fonts, etc.
It does require a download to run the application, however. I'm going to try it now.
Quoted: Embrace the easy-to-read format
Times Reader uses the same font and column structure you see in the printed paper. Also, there is no scrolling necessary -- just use the arrow keys on your keyboard to turn the page.ShareViewed: 3 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 16 2006 | adobe, flex, apollo, fowa
Ted Patrick gave a demo of his Flex/Apollo application the the Future of Web Apps conference. It was really inpressive to see the same application run as a web application and as a client application. Lots of mentions of Apollo as a technology to watch for future web application development.
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