Interview With UIzard Creator Ryu Sunt-tae

volume4 writes "A couple of days ago, the folks over at Ajaxian introduced the world to UIzard, an awesome creation by a Korean developer using YUI. There is actually a heck of a lot more about it, and the excitement about the app caused the UIzard website to go down. Most people could not interact with the app or learn more. A day or so later, the website was back but I could still not access the app. I went on a search to find the creator of UIzard to learn more about it, and finally, through Jinho.Jung on Flickr, I got ahold of his email address and hooked up with Ryu Sunt-tae to learn more."

Comments

Name spelling; other info links.

[davidsyes]

I am 99.999999999999999999999999999999999% sure that his name is supposed to be typed as Ryu Sung-tae (Sung, not Sunt; there is not in my studies of Korean some such name, given, or family...). Besides, g and t on the US / Latin keyboard are adjacent, and all the more this seems to be a typo. If it was a phone interview, with the interviewer making corrections, it's then even possible that his name is Seung, not Sung, as in the director http://www.koreanfilm.org/films2008.html Ryu Seung-jin.

Unfortunately, it appears the opensource site seems to have it wrong. But, *i* could be wrong, so maybe you can e-mail him and ask him if his name is actually misspelled on the site.

For those not aware, the "WI" as in wizard or whiskey in the US/English speakign areas is written in Korean charactes that look in English like "oi", but pronounced making for it to look like "uh-wee-zard". So, it's neat/nifty a spin to have UI and Wi merged for UIzard, instead of just using Wizard....

Just my two cents...

Oh, Ajaxjian Link:

http://ajaxian.com/archives/uizard-a-web-mashup-generator-written-in-yui

DZone link:

http://www.dzone.com/links/uizard_a_web_mashup_generator_written_in_yui.html

And another, unrelated item:
http://technews.am/conversations/ajaxian/uizard_a_web_mashup_generator_written_in_yui
http://technews.am/conversations/ajaxian/3d_cube_using_new_css_transformations

Re:Name spelling; other info links.

[volume4]

From his email I have it as: "Best Regards, Ryu Sunt-tae"

Re:Name spelling; other info links.

[kromozone]

His name in Korean is ë¥ì±ífoe. As mentioned in this article - http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=ourbelief&logNo=130043884744 That would transliterate as Ryu-Seong-Tae, depending on the transliteration method you use. He may just have decided to transliterate it in his own way, as no one is likely to pronounce it properly anyway unless they can read Korean!

Re:Name spelling; other info links.

[davidsyes]

Hmmm, i just figured out the paragraph about him is further down the page. The characters i see are, phonetically, in English:

  1. UIzard -

ryu seung tae neum

R character + yu character, both making family name

S character + -| (i'm using minus and pipe to simulate the "eu" chars that are pronounced as "uh", like mud/bud/scud/flood) and the null char "ng" (circle) beneath "s" and "eu"

[- (simulating the "t" (single "t" sound, not the double "t" sound/char) left of the "H"-looking char that makes the sound "ay" sound spelled as "ae" (like Hyundae, spoken quickly from the english spelling/chars of heeyoon-day/hyoon-dae, w/ emphasis on the d, almost "t", between day and take)

at the very end is the article/suffix "neum", for which i am awaiting an explanation by a Korean friend here studying English...

These might be useful:

http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/493303
http://langintro.com/kintro/
http://langintro.com/kintro/family/direct.htm

http://langintro.com/kintro/first.htm

I can do a better write-up than that

[Anonymous Coward]

How about:

"Activity participated in by some."

Much more descriptive.

A Little Help?

[pete-classic]

I mean, would it fucking kill you to make YUI a hyper-link in the summary?

-Peter

Re:A Little Help?

[sakdoctor]

I'm going to wait for the dupe of this story, where hopefully all the bugs will have been ironed out.

Re:A Little Help?

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps you would prefer your article summaries in this vein?

I have to say some description of what UIzard is or does would be far more relevant and important than a link to YUI, though.

Re:A Little Help?

[flyingsquid]

Ulzard was the name of the monster that fought Godzilla in "Godzilla vs. Ulzard the Cybermonster" and later appeared in Ultraman as Ultraman's arch-nemesis, Ulzard, Lord of the Cybermonsters. The costume was made from the body of a bear suit, a samurai helmet, a bunch of tin foil and duct tape wrapped around the limbs, and a keyboard on his chest. He was pretty popular in the early 1960s, I think, before the company was sued and shut down for ripping off a "Gamera" script too closely. There was talk of a movie being made in 2007, with Nicolas Cage to play as Ulzard's creator, Dr. Gohoro. But the studio backed out of the deal and they are now back to trying to secure funding.

Web Dev WYSIWYG in Javascript

[Foofoobar]

Yet another web dev WYSIWYG done in javascript. Creeps, crashs and crawls whereas a desktop app like Eclipse is far more reliable and stable. Why are people still trying to do this in javascript?

So what the hell is it?

[vondo]

Apart from "awesome"?

Re:So what the hell is it?

[plut4rch]

"Something nobody has heard of."

Re:So what the hell is it?

[DeadDecoy]

From what I've seen ala google:images Uizard, it appears to be a gui for creating web guis, so another dreamweaver I guess.

Re:So what the hell is it?

[Facegarden]

Yeah, what the hell is this? Why do people post articles without at least a *little* bit of description of what the hell they are talking about!?
-Taylor

Re:So what the hell is it?

[Blakey Rat]

Because Slashdot editors are stupid.

Re:So what the hell is it?

[pelrun]

Therefore... Slashdot editors are people?

Wait, that can't be right.

Re:So what the hell is it?

[Bigjeff5]

Logical error, your conclusion is not valid. It does not follow that Slashdot editors are people just because they are stupid.

A valid conclusion could be made with the following statement: People are stupid > Slashdot editors are people > Slashdot editors are stupid.

The reverse of that (which was not stated and so cannot be assumed) would be: Those who are stupid are people > Slashdot editors are stupid > Slashdot editors are people.

You cannot conclude anything from People are stupid > Slashdot editors are stupid. There is not enough information to make a valid conclusion about Slashdot editors beyond that they are stupid. It is nothing more than a correlation.

You could "fix" the problem by adding the word "only" to the premis, as follows: Only people are stupid > Slashdot editors are stupid > Slashdot editors are people.

That would be valid, but it also requires you to change the premis slightly to make it so.

Cheers!

BTW, can I call myself a Logic Nazi?

Re:So what the hell is it?

[Ant P.]

Clearly, the logical conclusion is that Soylent Green is Slashdot editors.