[tlug] Not always about scratching an itch

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

I thought some of you here who are interested in how open-source works,
might enjoy the (40 minute) presentation, found halfway down this page:
  http://touchpunch.furf.com/

What is novel is that it is used on over 60 million websites (well,
maybe...), yet the author himself is not one of the users!

Darren

P.S. It is a small, focused solution. This allows what I think are two
of its most attractive features:
 1. It is *fully* documented. OK, that only took a couple of paragraphs,
but fully is fully. :-)

 2. The examples on the project website cover just about every possible
use case, allowing you to quickly confirm it will work in each device
you have to support. Contrast this to more complex open source libraries
where evaluating if something does what you need can take longer than
the rest of the coding on the project.



-- 
Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer

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