More fun with SVG. I’m rather surprised there isn’t more general ‘design’ work using SVG. True, you really should have your pages as XHTML and not many people are ready to jump on that bandwagon. Still, once you’ve bit the bullet, you can have a lot of fun with your pages and incorporating SVG. My […]
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Perfect example
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Here’s a perfect example of how the computer field is broken: In a post at Coding Horror, based on earlier posts at Imran on Tech and Raganwald, the author parrots what the others state, that programmers can’t program. With lots of exclamation points. Why make such a breathtakingly grandiose claim? Because of what happens in […]
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Dabble
I agree with Sam Ruby: a successful tech is a diversified one. You can’t always depend on a new millennium to justify sticking with one and only one programming language. This last week I worked with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby. I had been on a long hiatus from Java after the end of the […]
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More new toys
I still love Locomotive, but I haven’t forgotten my PHP, or my first love, RDF. (Note to self: get out more). Anyway, I spotted the following at the RAP (RDF API for PHP) site: RAP 0.93 will be released in January 2006 and will include support for the SPARQL query language and the SPARQL protocol. I’ve […]
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Chu chu code
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I can’t believe how easy it is to set up Ruby on Rails on the Mac with Locomotive. I went from two downloads to my first application in less than 1/2 hour. Great stuff. I’m in the process of making vast changes here abouts. The first change is I’m moving my […]