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Monthly Archives: November 2004

television and soldiers in Iraq

Monday, November 22, 2004

I haven’t been sleeping too well for the last two nights.
I’m sure I’ll get over it soon, though.
Friday night (Saturday morning) I woke up at 4am - cold with my mind a’ racing. First I tried putting on sweat-pants & going back to bed. No luck, racing mind & all. I got […]

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on painless software schedules

Friday, November 19, 2004

Man, joelonsoftware is full of good reads!
I’ve started keeping track of my projects using Joel’s suggested layout for spreadsheet-based tracking of development projects. I already feel more productive.

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on social interface v. user interface

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

I read a piece today on usability of social interfaces on joelonsoftware.com — Whereas the goal of user interface design is to help the user succeed, the goal of social interface design is to help the society succeed, even if it means one user has to fail.
Joel talks about the design of social networking sites, […]

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data-driven RIA, day 1.1

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

This morning I wired together the blog reader (Actually, it only reads my blog right now!), which was pretty easy once I groked how pointers inside of datapath worked.
Of course, you can point this app at your RSS 2.0 feed by changing the src attribute in the tag.
<canvas width=”850″ height=”550″>
<!– DATA –>
<dataset name=”rss” […]

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start of data-driven RIA

Tuesday, November 9, 2004

I’ve been playing around with Laszlo’s open-source server in my spare time.
I whipped up the beginning of a data-driven RIA piece that consumes an RSS feed from my blog & displays titles of each blog item in a floating window.
I plan on creating RSS-readers using multiple different technologies & compare the length-of-code, ease-of-developent, and development […]

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regex review

Tuesday, November 2, 2004

CHARACTER MATCHING -

.
Match any one character
[ ]
Match any one character listed between the brackets
[^ ]
Match any one character not listed between the brackets

REPETITION OPERATORS

?
Match any character one time, if it exists
*
Match declared element multiple times, if it exists
+
Match declared element one or more times
{n}
Match declared element one or more times
{n,}
Match declared element at least […]

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