Well we have been recieving a lot of emails since our last post regarding the UI library. We decided to provide an early access to some of the tests for the library and documentation around it. There is a lot of work still to be done and we hope to steer the project according to the feedback we recieve.

You can check out demos and docs here.

Feel free to post your comments/suggestion here.

Apart from the usual clientel work, we are working hard to bring our UI library to a stable release. A lot of work has been done and a lot more needs to be done. So keep checking the blog for latest updates on that.

This past long weekend (for us canadians) I decided to experiment with canvas and javascript. The reasonable thing to do was to build a simple charting script. After few hours of work and inspiration from Flot (jQuery plotting engine) here is the result:

Of course, this is completely based on Prototype and it supports the basic line chart, scatter plot, bar graphs and maybe next weekend I will add pie chart support to it. The code is still a bit messy so I won’t be posting it right now. I will probably wait till I am done with pie chart support before release an alpha and let you folks test it out.

So yeah a lot is going on but that doesn’t mean we don’t have time to chit chat with others. Feel free to throw us an email if you want to discuss about your next project or if you just want to say hello.

John Resig has been working on something special that he will be releasing tonight. I am a big reader of John’s blog, he is one of the best Javascript developers that I have seen. So what could this surprise be?

His clue is:

• Something small and fast.
• Something large and pretty.

So what could it be? We shall know by tonight!

Update:

Well it is amazing what John can do with JS check out his “release” here: http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/

Go out and enjoy the weather. It has been exceptionally beautiful here in Ottawa for past couple of days. So take time off your computer and just enjoy mother nature.

So now that I have my iPhone all ready to go and had my moment of joy playing with all the features on this phone, its time to move into development. This device provides a lot of power to the developer but there are still few things that we need to look at before diving head first into development:

1. iPhone supports an amazingly powerful feature set that can make your applications visually attractive and engage your users with great amount of interactivity.
2. Touch screen can bring thousands of creative ideas right to your finger tips (literally)

3. Limitation of no background apps running is sort of a deal breaker but I am hopeful that Apple will change its stance after a while.

Over the next few days I will be posting my experience in developing a simple iPhone application and sharing my thoughts and struggles with you via blog. So what sort of application can we make on iPhone that would be simple yet fun? There are few ideas that I am debating between but feel free to make a suggestion.

Let the fun begin!

So I have finally decided to jump the ship and move onto iPhone. I have been playing around with the SDK for a while now and the simulator is just amazing and it will be interesting to move onto that platform.

Full browser support: Makes it fun to write interactive web applications that can really push the limits what we can offer to the end user interms of interactivity and amazing experience.  I can’t wait to try the new CSS based animation techniques that they have introduced in Safari and I hope that W3C makes it a standard soon.

Apart from porting web applications to iPhone, I am also looking forward to build native Objective-C based applications.

So those of you who already have an iPhone, want to share your experience so far? And for those who are still waiting to buy one, what are you waiting for?

This morning I read via Techcrunch about Google Sky. My first impression? WOW!

I have been into astronomy for a while now and it is amazing to see the complexity and beauty of our sky. On top of that I like how Google just brought a little preview of what Google Earth can do to our browsers.

If you have never seen up at the sky at night time or if you have wondered about the brightest star or other planets I recommend you to visit Google Sky