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Interview With UIzard Creator Ryu Sunt-tae

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the js-library-grudge-match-in-3-2-1 dept.

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."

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  1. Name spelling; other info links. by davidsyes · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

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    1. Re:Name spelling; other info links. by volume4 · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  2. A Little Help? by pete-classic · · Score: 4, Informative

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

    -Peter

    1. Re:A Little Help? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      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.

  3. So what the hell is it? by vondo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apart from "awesome"?

    1. Re:So what the hell is it? by DeadDecoy · · Score: 3, Informative

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

    2. Re:So what the hell is it? by Facegarden · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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

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    3. Re:So what the hell is it? by pelrun · · Score: 3, Funny

      Therefore... Slashdot editors are people?

      Wait, that can't be right.