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Monday, 4 February 2002

A picture named CircularBerg.jpgSome lovely icebergs in the Antarctic. This is a a test of the My Pictures tool that comes with Radio Userland. Could be quite fun, I will just have to watch the amount of space I use up with pictures. Prior to this post I had 98% of my 10.0Mb free.

<edit> This photo is courtesy of the lovely Mr Mumford. He stitched two piccies together using a natty piece of software called PhotoVista </edit>


5:14:54 PM    

Got to say that I'm quite intrigued by the web services tutorial that Dave Winer has posted and Dan Shafer has written so eloquently about.

But, and there has to be a but doesn't there, what kind of language is that? I'm a programmer (of sorts) by trade and the code is horrible, take a look;

on myFavoriteWeblogs (ctfavorites, pretext="<p>", posttext="</p>\r") {
   local (htmltext = "", ct = 0);
   while ct < ctfavorites {
      local (ix = random (1, sizeof (weblogsComData.favorites)));
      local (weblogname = nameof (weblogsComData.favorites [ix]));
      local (adrweblog = @weblogsComData.weblogs.[weblogname]);
      if defined (adrweblog^) {
         local (link = "<a href=\"" + adrweblog^.url + "">" + weblogname + "</a>");
         htmltext = htmltext + pretext + link + posttext;
         ct++}};
   return (htmltext)}

I have seen more attractive 'C' code. Dave, do yourself a favour and give us an easy to learn, read and use language. I'm biased, but Python beats the pants off that macro language. I believe it is a subset of UserTalk, which in turn was inspired by Algol but that really is no excuse.

I've bought Radio, I use it and I like it but there is no way I am going to write web services if they have to be coded in that fashion. It is possible to do the same things in numerous other tools which have much easier to use languages. So I say nice try, but no thanks.

Of course, a tech savvy person could probably include the ability to write Radio web services in other programming languages. Somehow I don't think I'll get round to it but you never know ...


4:42:46 PM    

pecuniary: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. pecuniary [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]

Always a good word, especially when you are planning a wedding, as Bobo and I are doing at the moment.


3:55:42 PM    

My RSS feed seems to have gone pear shaped, so I will link to this manually. Mark Pilgrim has a great piece on Microsoft licensing terms here. I leave you to draw your own conclusions, but I have a new e-mail tag line.
3:40:44 PM    

Australian absurdity alert number 1. Qantas, our quality 'national' airline is expanding the realms of industrial relations. As maintenance workers arrive at work each day they are being asked if they want to do unpaid overtime. If they say no they are being sent home. Full report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
1:40:39 PM    

I want a copy of Six Degrees. [courtesy of JoelOnSoftware]

Oh, and whilst you are there, read all of Joel's articles on software development. This man just oozes common sense.


11:15:17 AM    

Woops, we are still looking wonky on the wibbly wobbly web. Hopefully the addition of this repost will trigger an upload of the whole kit and caboodle to sort it out.
9:42:14 AM    


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