Psychic Origami

I've been writing an application for my other half in recent months to help her organise observations of the children in her class. I've actually written two versions of the app. The first was dubbed "Observertron" and in retrospect was overly complex. After a bit of thought I was able …

I've updated the relevant wxPython wiki page with this info, but thought i'd record it here for posterity too.

I'm currently playing around with writing a wxPython app. It's at the point where I'm starting to package it into executables to be run without needing Python installed.

Py2exe is the …

When Jeremy talked about Huffduffer at March's £5app he revealed that pretty much every page in Huffduffer had a RSS/JSON/XML version. A couple of weeks back, I asked whether Huffduffer supported JSONP. After a quick reply back from Jeremy that it wasn't, there was another reply within an …

This is probably my first attempt at "literary programming", though using that phrase may be taking liberties a little. In this case by "literary programming" I mean - programming inspired by literature. The literature in question is Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon already features a Perl script in it's pages, but …

So after writing a 5K Twitter Client, a 5K TODO app and a 5K Fullscreen Text Editor I thought that'd be enough example apps to get things started. However while adding a list of app ideas to the 5K App page I suddenly decide that one of the ideas really …

It occurred to me that I didn't really go into much detail about the local storage part of my 5K TODO app. It's quite a neat piece of tech and because it works in Safari it also works on the iPhone. That obviously means you can use javascript+local storage …

After a 5K Java Twitter client and a 5K Javascript TODO list app, the next example 5K App is a wxPython fullscreen text editor. Much like Writeroom and Duncan's JDarkroom (both of which are more fully featured) it lets you edit text files in "distraction-free" fullscreen. Ideal for creative writing …

So far for the 5K App I've written two example apps - one in Java and one in Javascript. This is partly so that I can figure out how the rules for the competition will need to work. In a lot of 4K competitions a single language is chosen, so things …

More 5K App preparations. After using Java to write a 5K Twitter Client it's time to change languages and dive into some Javascript. So the next 5K app is a TODO list app (a bit like 37Signals Ta-da List). The app runs locally in a browser that support the local …

So as part of preparations for the 5K App I'm writing a few example apps. The first one so far is a 5K Twitter Client, which makes it smaller than the Twitter logo itself (at 5.4K).

Check out the demo video to see it in action or download 5KTwit …