Years and years ago I started using Delphi internet services. They had a complicated dialup arrangement through Sprintnet and Tymenet to a farm of VAX servers in the Boston area, part of Northeast Education and Research (NEAR) net. This was Delphi internet, character-mode, 9600 baud. I used Mac classic and …
more ...The most common argument for introducing YAPL goes like this:
"There are way too many programming languages out there. And they are each flawed in some way (small and odd, or large and incomprehensible). So I, in my wisdom and will create YAPL, which will displace all these other, inferior …
more ...A Question:
more ...I would like to build a web browser interface that has capabilities like a spreadsheet.
At the same time, would like to use a tool like OpenROAD from Ingres/CA to do this.
It seems that XUL is the way to go but the entire Mozilla thing is …
The idea of "universal" processing via XSLT is moderately appealing. There's a big issue with poorly defined semantics, which always breaks a meta-data driven approache. The holy grail is perfect metadata from which all application software can be derived in a trivial way. I'm not sure this is ever achievable …
more ...From an email I got recently, lightly edited. Responses to follow
The data layer of application architecture must be flexible enough to adapt to virtually any new data-driven functional requirement demanded by today's client..right...well to support such adaptability in client deployments, the data model must allow almost …
Mac #1 was a 1986 128K Mac, later upgraded to 1M Mac Plus, with external everything. Eventually a 70Mb SCSI hard drive. Bundled up with another just like it, it sold on eBay for shipping + a few bucks. I kept it running until 2001, when I finally shut it off …
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more ...>I'm not sure what the issue is, >and why "simple content manager" needs definition.
Neither was I until I read your reply.
I did not know enough to formulate the correct question. What I was struggling was when do you use simple hyperlinks/html vs a content mgr …
A Question:
>> A while back you mentioned the following book >> >> Book Title: Text, ConText, and HyperText Writing with and for the Computer edited by Edward Barrett >> ISBN 0-262-02275-3 >> >> I bought and then scanned through the book. I picked the following article to read semi carefully >> Hypertext: A Way of Incorporating …more ...
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Are any of these lkinks still live?
Why Python? Stay tuned. Why Zope? More to come.
HTML Parse Tree and related material - needs a proper Python install script.
PyWeb - needs some updates and a proper install script.
Additional projects:
Random Number Test Algorithms, plus an implementation of some higher-order …
more ...It's time for me to reconcile my web content and blogs among all the freebie hosting sites:
Mindspring and Roadrunner are duplicates, as a test of something or other. .Mac is built by the Apple iLife tools, and is a place to play with those. Geocities …
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