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blog archive for Wednesday November 1st2006
Wednesday November 1 November 2006
LCD goodies and fun
Well, sort of...
It constantly amazes me what people get upto in their spare time…
Take this for example… It’s a small form factor COLOUR LCD unit for not alot.
It’s programmable, and runs off standard USB serial chipset (FTDI Chip). And the real kicker: it’s touch screen… What does this mean? Well a metric fucktonne of brain bending interface development for me, but the boss is literally foaming at the mouth with the possibilities…
Embedded development here I come… I just hope I can convince the boss to let me play with these little beasties
Php developers...
... ahem
Someone pointed me in the direction of this posting
I, unusually, decided to comment however they’ve been disabled, and his website doesn’t disable the form. *cough* Usability issues? *cough*
The problem is that someone scratched an itch, a few people found it useful, and soon a “community” built up who are pushing for things too quickly and there just wasn’t any original thought gone into the main system. Sooner or later the product tends to be the same shit in a different label.
Coupled with this is the simple fact that PHP is easy to start using ...