Tuesday - October 21, 2008
How can we demo web services?
We're working on a Software As A Service offiering. It's part of a customer's business process. Not the whole process, just one step. How do you demo a "POST" request that responds with some unique of pieces of information?
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Sunday - October 12, 2008
I hate CSS -- mostly because I don't understand it
Generally, I have the luxury of avoiding it. At some point, however, I really need to understand it.
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Tuesday - December 25, 2007
Model - View - Controller, and Related Patterns
About three weeks ago, TP sent me a handy link on MVC and related patterns. This is my way of bookmarking it.
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Wednesday - May 02, 2007
Graphics Learning, Cairo and PyCairo
In response to "A Simple Graphic Learning Environment", Gabriel
says "One question, is there any reason you are
not using cairo to do the graphics? This is something I plan to change, once I
figure out how exactly, as it looks much nicer imho".
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Friday - March 30, 2007
A Simple Graphic Learning Environment - Part 2
In Part 1, I presented a simple GTK-based framework
for graphic applications. Here's a graphic application I wrote that I used to
create some illustrations that were too hard to do manually in any graphics
package I have.
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Monday - March 26, 2007
A Simple Graphic Learning Environment - Part 1
At PyCon, there was a excellent presentation on
teaching Python. Dr. Ceder advocated using a graphic environment, rather than a
text environment for an introduction to programming
course.
What's important here is that
you need a learning environment that students can use, and will provide
gratifying results. Second you need programming assignments that range from
simple "hello world" graphics to something more complex and interesting for the
advanced students.
The biggest
"problem" is that GTK is very sophisticated, perhaps too sophisticated for
pedagogy. There's no real reason to invent something dramatically simpler --
turtle graphics already provide dramatic simplicity. However, there may be room
to provide a few more helper functions and methods which make the newbie's
environment simpler but still compatible with GTK.
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Tuesday - March 13, 2007
Sugar, GTK and OLPC
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Friday - October 20, 2006
Layers, Interfaces and Mutability
"We are having a debate about the basic way the
UI, Business Logic, and Data Access layers communicate". I don't think there's
a lot of room for debate here. Muddying the layers -- in effect -- makes the
interfaces more complex, and couples too many things together. Further, I think
there's a usable acid test that helps you determine if you've done the wrong
thing.
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Saturday - September 23, 2006
The Browser as OS? Perhaps Not
In the September 18 eWeek , Jim Rapoza ponders the "Browser as
OS" question in "A Promotion for Browsers?" Some of this is
interesting, but it misses the most important point.
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Tuesday - January 06, 2004
Building a Web Interface
I want a rich interface, how do I
proceed?
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