Sketchpad for Google Wave
The semester is over and my capstone project is done. Meet “Sketchpad”, a gadget for Google Wave. Sketchpad can be inserted into a Wave conversation to provide simple collaborative drawing in real time. Put simply: you can see participants drawing on the canvas stroke by stroke as they are doing it. The project is based on, and uses code from, Christopher Clay’s excellent CanvasPaint which he released to the public domain.
The project is not in a stable state but it is usable as an interesting demo in Firefox only for now. I would like to put more time into it and get it working across all browsers, not to mention plenty of other gaping issues with it.
Google Code is hosting the project at http://code.google.com/p/sketchpad-for-wave/ and the following link should take you straight to the official installer if you have a Google Wave account:
Sketchpad for Google Wave (alpha v2 installer)
In keeping with the requirements of my capstone class I am also posting the requirements and design documents for the project, as well as the presentation slides used for the various presentations given throughout the semester.
You should watch this many times both because it is cute and because I could possibly win a MacBook according to this competition. This is my house-mate’s cat, Hades. She isn’t very good at cracking open the shell, but she tries.
How We Get Crackin – Hades tries to eat a Pistacio on 12seconds.tv
As I sat awake at a late hour and grasped at reasons that I shouldn’t be sleepy I realized that there are probably a few readers (and only a few) that would rather just hear about me and what I’m doing. Out of consideration for them I have decided to abstain from posting personal content on socks with crocs. I realized that this would be a prime opportunity to try out Habari, a new blogging software that I found last week, and a good reason to put SQLite to work. Anything about my life (in real life) will begin flowing to the new site: withlove.psoplayer.com
I have no idea what this means for socks with crocs. I suppose this means it is free to become dominated with technical advice and tutorials, but I’m a lazy blogger, so maybe it just means it will be updated half as often.
Today I left the United States for the first time. I’m on a mission trip with The UCSC in Piedras Negras, Mexico, and will be for the next week. Look for twitter updates and pics on Flickr.
Published on
May 2, 2008 in
College.
Originally submitted as my final for HIST-2020. Citations have been removed, since they were mostly bull anyway.
"Look the island!" The cry ran throughout the passengers on the deck. "You can see her arm!" Sure enough, on the horizon a gleam had appeared. All eyes watched with anticipation as lady liberty crept into view astride that beacon of promise: Ellis Island. This was where millions had taken their first steps towards achieving the American Dream for themselves, and it held the same promise for everyone on board. Minds raced as stories of the abounding opportunities suddenly seemed believable. People imagined their future jobs and the regular income they could provide or the open country waiting to be settled; and in both cases, the better life that children and grandchildren would be able to share in.
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