Thursday, June 24, 2004

Don Box talks about the Taligent Effect. He writes:  "What was the net artifact of Taligent? Three beautifullyproducedbooks from Addison Wesley. That's it. No DLLs or EXEs that I can see.". Taligent produced CommonPoint. It had DLL's and EXE's and a company I worked for used it and developed a prototype application using it. Although Taligent ended up badly they did produce good work and weren't just book producers. Unfortunately all that's left for the public to see are the books. That's one of the downsides of closed source software. When the company disappears so does its products. 2:15:32 PM

I've updated the continuation based web server example that I did in Factor. The description is in cont.txt and the code in cont-responder.factor. New in this version is handling POST requests and changing some things from using namespaces and tables to alists. I've also provided instructions on how to use it and an example of how you can use 'looping' code rather than sequential code: : test-cont-responder2 ( alist - ) #! Test the cont-responder responder by displaying a few pages in a loop. [ "one" "two" "three" "four" ] [ display-page ] each "Done!" display-page ; In this example 'display-page' displays the top most item on the stack on a web page. 'each' iterates over a list. So here we are iterating over the list, displaying each text on a web page. The user can navigate between the pages using the 'Next' anchor on the page. 8:56:36 AM