Journal tomhudson's Journal: Ask (a subset of) slashdot ... 34
Just what is the best "one word" for making/adapting a bunch of apps or web sites or programs into tiles on a device or in a borwser? I figure it should be pronounced TILE + IF + EYE (but the syllables would actually be TILE-I-FEYE). If you were writing about it, would you spell it
(in alphabetical order):
- 1. T - I - L - E - F - Y (google returns ~130 results)
- 2. T - I - L - E - I - F - Y (google retuns ~139 results)
- 3. T - I - L - I - F - Y (google returns ~800 results, but they're usernames or some sort of doll)
- 4. Something else
There's actually a couple of references in the Android SDK that use #2 http://www.devdaily.com/java/jwarehouse/android/core/java/android/widget/ProgressBar.java.shtml
if (drawable != null) {
drawable = tileify(drawable, false);
You'd think that after all this time we'd actually have something less cumbersome than "making them into live tiles". So, which one do you vote for, and why?
None of the above. (Score:3)
You don't "tileify" things, you tile them, or create tiles (or a tiling) from them. That's plain old English.
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Widgify it then
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Tessalate/Tessatify/Tessalation
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I see (Score:1)
people never misspell tits or naked but that isn't going to help
I see your business plan - I think. Website where you nominate a group of sites and get result that magically appifies them. Monetization?
Creating a tessalation ? CAT
Tessalation Intermediation Translator
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Not quite - but you're on the right track. The end user picks the sites/feeds/whatever.
Monetization? As Shakespeare would say (they obviously had "Talk Like A Pirate Day" even back then) , "Aye, there's the rub." But you only worry/start thinking about that if it succeeds.
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But again, then would the proper spelling be 'T-I-L-E-I-Z-E", or "T-I-L-I-Z-E"? My eyes say "tile-ize", but "tiling" says "tilize", which is fugly.
It's also funny that with the move to try to make apps "just some html5 and javascript" (tizen is the latest to jump on the bandwagon but they're vaporware, Microsoft is doing it, Amazon is now doing it ...) it's more a web 2.01 (it's not worth a version bump). Or web 0
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Tiling vs Portlets (Score:2)
So, they're custom-written to be displayed as "portlets", rather than just tak
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Portlets were JSP (or a precursor of it, it's a long time ago), not applets, Just saying.
As "tileize", see my comment about reading it in Dutch. It really looks weird for a Dutch person.
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Tileize is off the table, if only because Tile Financial already has tileize.com.
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Say what you want, but it gets the job done ... and that's what counts nowadays. Mind you, back when I was doing dynamic pages in c, that got the job done ... FAST!
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So, sort of need a new word ...
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lattizise --> to make lattices. Fully free, Check with Starbucks first, though.
mesher > Nah, not interesting TLDs free.
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Don't you think Lattizise sounds like something from Starbucks? And would you write it Lattizise or Lattisize (or even Latticise or Latticize?), depe
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Made me think of "Latte".. Must be me.
All in all, I fear you're on your own. Unless you'd like some suggestions in other languages. Even then, you'll end up with very similar ones as the languages I know all have the same roots./p
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It's not the $0 that gets ya, it's the "separate shipping and handling".
This is slashdot - why break tradition? (or as some slashdotters would write: "this is slashdot, why brake tradition?" I guess they just *have* to throw a car analogy into everything :-).
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If you are creating a grid, it doesn't matter whether you are tiling an area with pre-made tiles, or things that are not normally considered to be tiles. Even if you are using alligators, you're still tiling. (Or "tessellating" as someone else pointed out, although the spelling was slightly off. Though technically tessellating is slightly different.) The act of creating a tiling is st
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Sorry for the vagueness.
You have a point, of course ... but the reason "tiling" or "to tile" is an action is because it's what we normally do with tiles, so we extended the word to apply to the action as well, same as google and xerox became verbs (or, for those into bad car analogies, "Simonize").
However, when tiling things other than tiles, we also have cases that are more specific, such as "paving" or "to pave" for laying out paving stones, or "gridlocked" for when cars are, well, gridlocked in the g
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Mr. Burns: Send the widow a ham.
Homer, as his soul returns to his body in anticipation of cured pork: Mmmmmm, ham!
Mose (Score:2)
"Mosaic-ify" could be webimified to the word "mose".
It can be both a noun and a verb
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Well, that *would* tie in with the name of the first real web browser - Mosaic. But look at how many syllables there are - 5. Can you imagine telling someone to type in "mow-zhey-ick-if-eye"? And they'd wonder if you're telling them to go to some old testament site ...
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Whatever you come up with will incur the wrath of the Tile-iban.
I'm thinking you may need to employ a hyphen. Tile-ize, tile-ify, et cetera. You could call the result a tile-istration. ; - )