Oh – My – Holy – God! I think my blog is officially dead now! After, uhm, not even 30 posts! But I’ve done a lot of things since March the twentieth, when I published the last post! And I mean things apart from twittering!

In April, for example, I developed a whole new Wordpress-Theme called “JavaScript-OperatingSystem-Theme” (“JS-OS-Theme“). I’ve chosen this extraordinary name, because it’s based on JavaScript (and PHP of course, the Wordpress-part!) and looks and behaves like an operating system. For all those of you who can speak German: Ihr könnt euch diesen Screencast ansehen, in dem ich das Theme ausführlich vorstelle. For all those of you who can’t: Enjoy the “ö”s and “ü”s in the last sentence and believe that all your stereotypes about Germany are true. Or go directly to trial.me-blogs-it.com – I’ve installed the Theme for experimental purpose and the test-posts are all in English!

I’ve done even more things in May!

Now, in June I began to teach myself Objective-C to write Mac and iPhone-Apps! I’ve already done a dozen of “Hello, World!”-Tutorials, yet I haven’t learned anything at all… But before I begin to bore you with this I rather tell you about the two other projects which ended up in further subdomains:

The first one is a simple WYSIWYG-Editor. I had to google for a long time until I found how to write one actually: The secret behind wysiwyg-editors is an iframe with the JavaScript-method designMode = “on”;

function id2obj(id) {if(document.getElementById) {return(document.getElementById(id))} else if(document.all) {return(document.all.id);} }
var Idocument = id2obj('showHTML').contentWindow.document;
Idocument.designMode = "on";

The special thing about this wysiwyg-Editor: Next to the wysiwyg-Editor is a textarea with the sourcecode of the wysiwyg-editor. Now, if you type into the textarea, the sourcecode is simultaneously turned into HTML and shown in the wysiwyg-editor. If you edit something in the wysiwyg-editor (btw: For all those of you who don’t know what this cryptical “wysiwyg” actually stands for: It means “What you see is what you get” – you know, this Britney Spears song!) the sourcecode changes in the textarea at the same time! Unfortunately it doesn’t work in Firefox. It probably doesn’t work in the Internet Explorer, but that’s a thing I don’t care about!

The last new subdomain: I was shocked when I read a study (I don’t know how old it was) in which it says that almost a quarter of all Internet users have a screen resolution of 800×600! I wanted to know how my sites actually look like in those screenresolutions and have written a simple php-file which makes customized resolutions possible: 800×600.me-blogs-it.com

JavaScript-OperatingSystem-Theme Wordpress screenshot