Laszlo Clock

A few days ago I got a wild hair to start creating simple little useful laszlo widgets. Here's one of them in action:



It's a simple clock application which demos how to create a laszlo widget with a timer. Laszlo hosting couresy of My Laszlo.

Here's a link to the source

Dofus - the first Flash-based MMORPG

This is something I've been wanting to do myself, although in a much scaled down version. This is a French site featuring a new MMORPG called DOFUS (um, dumb name) but the graphics and the gameplay look great. So far all I've seen are the trailers, but it looks really good. Check it out.

New Bookmarklet concept: Bloxlets

Hello there. This is something I've been thinking about trying out for a while now. Imagine combining the power of bookmarklets like you see at Slayer Office, the coolio widgets from My Laszlo, of which this particular one uses yet another service to search Google from XOOMLE.

Shake it all together and add Chemical X and you get this:

GoogleBloxLet

Drag and drop this into your FireFox toolbar, or "Add to Favorites" or whatever thing IE does to let you save a bookmarklet.

That one let's you search the web via google through laszlo using xoomle.

Here's another one - which is a version of my nascent TinyWorld Game:

TinyWorldLet


I hope you enjoy this.

Why you should Dump Internet Explorer...

Lockergnome talks about why it's time to get some sense and start using Firefox over IE.

Shared Space

My mac is not currently hooked up to the net, but if it was, I'd be using this app just about every day. If anything, contact the site and ask them to restart up the windows version.

From the site:

A tool for visual thinking, group working and content management. It allows users to create visual maps of information using web-like structures.

Documents from any application can be imported into a space, and the software's built in version control allows users to keep track of earlier versions of documents easily.

Relationships between elements can be described using links. Unlike hypertext links, such as those found on web pages, links are presented in a visual fashion, allowing users to see both linked elements concurrently, and traverse the space in both directions.

Spaces and views can be shared over the Internet or a local network. SS2 also makes use of Rendezvous, allowing you to see other users on your local network.

BlogBoxes

I have high hopes for sites like this:

Blogboxes provide exciting, instantly deployed functionality for your blog or Web site. They are free for non-commercial use. Enjoy them and spread the good word!


* Sized compactly to fit within your blog gutter
* Customizable via editing of a simple external XML configuration file
* Easy to embed within HTML templates via script tags
* Viewable from any Web browser enabled with the Flash 5 Player or later

Great web-game: AdventureQuest

From the site:

What is AdventureQuest?
AdventureQuest is a campy Final Fantasy style RPG that you play when you are on your lunchbreak, or the big game servers go down. You receive a certain number of turns per day to fight against hordes of evil creatures so that you can grow stronger and obtain ancient weapons of unimaginable power. You need nothing more than your web browser and the Flash plugin to play. And-IT'S FREE.

CSS Vault

If you are looking for inspiration of the CSS kind, you may find what you are looking for at this site. It's a collection of well-designed CSS based websites. And if you need still more inspiration (you lazy thing) you can also check out CoolHomePages.

Busy busy

How many blogs do you read a day? 10? 100? And how often do you hear posts like "I've been really busy lately, too busy to post". Yeah, so this should sound pretty familiar. I've been getting up to speed at work, and spending some time at home with kiddos. My son's been Ill for the past few days, and I've been taking care of them. Gee I have big plans. Laszlo is going to really take off, friend and neighbors. I've not encountered a language so deep and well thought out since I discovered Javascript. Will Laszlo beat the Flex juggernaut? We'll see, but I think there's plenty of room for both of them to survive and more... XAML? XUL? Let a thousand apps bloom...