This is a note to remind myself that interactions applied to a group folder do not work if any of the enclosed elements have an interaction. Also AxureEx is an incredibly useful set of methods for including javascript in an Axure file:
AxureEx can be found here:
http://www.dejongh.dk/wiki/doku.php?id=interaction:axure.ex_api
And the downloadable file is here:
https://github.com/Sam-Hepworth/Axure.Ex/releases
Credit to Sam Hepworth
Well after having the iPhone X for over a few months now I have completely adapted to using faceID for access. In many ways I like it better than touchID. It is a simpler and seemingly more direct interaction to just swipe up and the phone opens. Overall, I really like the smaller form factor, but decent sized screen which is only slightly more narrow than the 8plus.
I am still wanting to get something to cover the camera when I am not using it, but need it to be flexible enough to not make unlocking more complicated. I’ve tried a few different customized tape configurations with a tab, but they just do not work well. It was awkward bending the tape over and then it would eventually not stay back in place. Ultimately with all the privacy violations of sites like Facebook I don’t feel I am being too paranoid to want the camera covered. So, I’ll keep working on this until I can design something that just works without looking like a kludge.
So I was able to pick up an iPhone X on the launch day Nov 3rd. I had been vacillating between getting the 8+ or the X for over a month now. Despite all the talk of how expensive the X is, the 8+ is nearly just as expensive at $949 for the top end version with 256GB of storage. The thing that was really putting me off of the X was the lack of touch ID. I had a 6+ and really love the touch ID. The new Face-ID is not a substitute in my eyes as I usually put a tape flap over the camera for privacy reasons. Using face-ID would make that a pain to deal with multiple times a day to unlock.
However, I am now coming around to this and I am thinking I will start using the face-ID. I just have to find something that will allow me to have the camera covered and easily uncover to unlock. The tape worked well enough for the rare occasion I wanted to take a selfie, but it will not work for everyday unlocking. I otherwise really like the smaller sized device with a large screen.
Well, I am now an uncle. My younger sister had her first baby just after noon today. It was a long labor (24+ hours) as that little guy just did not want to come out.
My kids are older now, so it’s been a while since I’ve been around a baby. Babies are amazing to watch how they learn about the world around them. And it will be fun to watch my sister and my brother-in-law learn how to be parents.
Apparently, my personal site here was down a week ago or so, and I had no idea. I don’t check it every day and it seems my host does not have a notification of when a site is not working. Regardless, when I did get things restored it looks like I lost some articles. Checking my back-ups I realized I had not refreshed that in over a year. So it looks like I lost anything I posted in the last year. Actually, I’m not sure I posted anything as it has been a crazy busy year.
At any rate, things have been restored and I need to think about getting a system notification check service as well as a better back-up strategy other than manually copying posts into text files or doing irregular sql dumps.
It’s been a while since I last posted. Work has been incredibly busy and my personal life has had a number of events in the last year. The one thing that gets me the most is all the yard work I have to do here. I can barely keep up with the grass, which due to all the rain this year, seems to need cutting every 5 days. Then I have the bushes in front that need trimming, and on the side of the house is a bunch of old flowers that are nice when they re-bloom, but look ugly and overgrown the rest of the year. There is also a small tree that keeps sprouting up on the side and I keep hacking it down, but never get around to pulling the roots out. I have to take a vacation just to do all the yard work. Sigh.
For a while I had enabled a facebook likes plug-in. This was mostly for the purposes of experimentation on my part. Sometime over the last few months I had read an article about people who add facebook and other social links to their sites as having the appearance of being desperate. However, that is not the reason I dumped the plug-in.
I dumped the FB likes because the api was just terrible. Instead of some neat div or button, it had a table wrapped around things and a ton of inline styling. Even worse, it was slow to load. I never really expected anyone to ever like an article I posted as there are so few of you (except myself, how desperate would that be? Hah!). So why waste your time making my site load slower? If anyone wants to actually like an article, they can copy and paste the link into a FB post and like it from there.