Fun

Last year, when my kids got interested in learning to read and write, I decided to do what I tend to do: bring technology to the table. I created a simple web site that narrates input text, and shows navigable history of the given input on the page. Simple narrating UI for kids. I created this on Finnish only, but changing the language is relatively easy (i.e. only a couple minutes work). If you wish to use this, I just put the source code on GitHub. If you wish to play with the Finnish version, I host it at http://lue.teelahti.fi. For my kids I put this full screen, and it kept them occupied for as long as half an hour (= eternity for kids).

I visited NDC 2012 and enjoyed the conference a lot. Again. Awesome speaker lineup without too much product group advertisements. Lots of thought provoking lessons. Lots of fun tongue-in-the-cheek style stuff in between. Like Damian Edwards and Rob Conery “fighting” each other with SignalR and Socket.io, respectively (video here). On that cage match Rob used a cool narrator from command line (they used narrators since Damian had lost his voice), and for some reason that fascinated me. ...