Seitan Disseny Grafic

Seitan's web-site is been pdated two years later.For this, we are using the famos Fuse Engine engine by Moses.
More soon.

Application Engine

I am playing this afternoon with Google App Engine.

What is it? Maight yo wonder. Well, Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure.

Good to read that Google App Engine applications are implemented using the Python programming language. The runtime environment includes the full Python language and most of the Python standard library.

Long live Python

Processing, now Javascript-ish

John Resig (of jQuery fame) has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript.

Have a look to processingjs, you engineer.

Flashes

New revamp work on Mrs. Ilaria Consolo's web -site: Added some video, deleted some photos.

Besides this, We are now working on our - first!! - animation movie at Segonquarttogether with Mrs. Consolo.

A Flash-based project intended to be seen in cinemas, mobile apps, screenzs and all that flickrs. Flash classic animation framesd/scened film. Like if it was 1997 again.

More Soon...

Before Aligheri ( more soon )

From the page: ""El amor es sufrido, es benigno; el amor no tiene envidia, el amor no es jactancioso, no se envanece; no hace nada indebido, no busca lo suyo, no se irrita, no guarda rencor; no se goza de la injusticia, mas se goza de la verdad. Todo lo sufre, todo lo cree, todo lo espera, todo lo soporta"."

The Thing

The exciting thing about market economies is that stupidity equals opportunity.
Via Mr. Paul Graham.

Annoy Your Clients

Yes, do it. Recommend them VISTA OS. Yes. It is incredible but true, that you my dear, as a client, as a consumer, can be fooled up and down on purpose.

In a Thursday presentation at RSA 2008 in San Francisco, David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft who was part of the team that developed UAC, admitted that Microsoft's strategy with UAC was to irritate users and ISVs in order to get them to change their behavior.

"The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious," said Cross.

Microsoft not only wanted to get users to stop running as administrators, which exacerbates the effects of attacks, but also wanted to convince ISVs to stop building applications that require administrative privileges to install and run, Cross explained.

"We needed to change the ecosystem, and we needed a heavy hammer to do it," Cross said. .

Redmond, do not forget users are the ones that feed you and me. Please, treat them carefully. And, main at all, be careful with hammers. They do not recognize the owner.

Disagree

A brave update of Schopenhauers's considerations on refutation 90 years after, by Mr. Paul Graham. Worth a read.

CSS Animation

Considering the Apple's suggestions. CSS Animation & Visal Effects, here, This specification is an extension to CSS Transitions.

WebAward Competition

I have been invited to, as I have been last years take part a judge for WebAward Competition. WebAward Competition is the Best Website award competition for many reasons:

We have a transparent process. We tell you what the seven criteria for a successful Website are and let the judges determine how to apply them each year.

Our judges are Internet experts and leaders in their industry from around the world who volunteer their time because they are leaders in their industry and understand the value of the WebAwards to the Internet community.

All of our sites get sent to the judges - not just a handful of "finalists". In fact, each site is reviewed by 3-6 judges and the final score is an average of the top two scores.

The awards are industry specific, with 96 categories that you can enter. Your sites are judged against their peers and each industry has its own standard of excellence it should strive for - just like in real life.

This year we are introducing a new award image plaque with a modern look that will look great on your office wall or in your company's trophy case.

Winning a WebAward is also a great marketing opportunity. Winners can use press releases to drive traffic to your site and will receive links from our site to help with SEO efforts.

Everyone who participates gets feedback. Some will get specific comments from the judges reviewing your site, but everyone will receive their scores on each of the seven criteria and benchmark those scores against your industry averages.

Everyone who participates will also receive a copy of the 2009 Internet Standards Assessment Report which provides more than a decade of benchmarking data for your industry.

It is simple to enter and last years sites can be reentered with a single click from your nominator account.

The Web Awards is a volunteer organization that has been around for 11 years.Get your award here

Fog

"En la calle acercósele un mendigo diciéndole: «¡Una limosna, por Dios, señorito, que tengo siete hijos...!» «¡No haberlos hecho!», le contestó malhumorado Augusto. «Ya quisiera yo haberle visto a usted en mi caso ––re plicó el mendigo, añadiendo––: y ¿qué quiere usted que hagamos los pobres si no hacemos hijos... para los ri cos?» « Tienes razón ––replicó Augusto––, y por filósofo, ¡ahí va, toma!» , y le dio una peseta, que el buen hombre se fue al punto a gastar a la taberna próxima."

From Miguel de Unamuno's Niebla

Art and Water

Francesca LLopis is having an exhibition here, and in NYC.

Worth a look, you might click in the image to know more about it.

PHP s***s

Today, Wednesday, let me entertain you a while explaining you what, in my modest opinion, is PHP all about.

I look after PHP eleven years ago, via Eduard a friend of mine - who sadly leaved us becaus of a stroke ten years ago- and a brilliant photographer who introduced me in the world wide web programming lifestyle.

Those times, I remember, PHP was kind of a language for outsiders, pseudo-programming language for newbies that easily let one develop, say, Flash applications with CMSs and all that mattered. You had a Windows machine and we hacked it with Linux, Apache and...Personal Home Page, now called Processing Hypertext Language, acronym of PHP.

No one, no University in Spain, no serious trade company, used Linux then. WE loose money and time, but we beleived in Open-Source. Then.

My work was focused to work with KDE in Macintosh. Until the year 2000, when OS X appeared, my efforts were seen like a foolish spare of time, specially in the Department of Physics from the University of Barcelona, where I took some courses on SUSe Linux. That was in 1997.

For me, educated in the principles of logic I had learned while I was studying Philosophy, computational languages were something exciting. A bridge between languages and maths.

Multimedia, as we know it today was something completely new and opened. Logic has to be true as far we concern what we explain via a computer is true. Call it a photographer's book, an economic report or whatever.

So we spare a lot of time, days, months. And I was seduced by Javascript, more than PHP. We fight against browsers . In that early ages there were only IE dot five and netscape dot four as common browsers,still Mosaic was around.

Today, when I have a look at all that two dot zero stuff, I recover my old books of Javascript and , to me , there is nothing new under the sun. Same processes, new libraries, but still based on the same principles.

I saw clearly, those days, that Javascript was the perfect solution to write desktop applications via browser, without depending upon a database.

We had XML, a small piece of text that could be overwritten via cookies. I remeber asking in the University if there were some courses on Javascript. By that time, not so far from today, twelve thousand experts/teachers were absolutely dedicated to ASP and SQL Server. Or Pascal or Fortran. I stopped working with Basic and DB2 when I was sixteen and I leave college.

No Javascript at all. But we were still using PHP because of we were still beginners.

Inside my self-education I discovered PHP was, to me, a bunch between Perl, Javascript and some horrible tokens from C, and the most important thing: It had serious logical inconsistences. See it by yourself here. Or here

Of course PHP sucked then. There were also discussions on the web, in that what we know today as forums. Everybody loves forums because they make feel important to insignificant people. Forums also let you streal knowledge and wisdom. The few, but. Forums to me are equal to porn, say," he-dog looks fos a she/he-dog to fund a family." Or "Please, please, help me because I am a programmer who does not knoww how to solve the difficulty of a language program". Evidence, clear lights, sound. In other words: Porn.

So there were too PowerPoint presentations saying ,in other none polite words, the same.

The sound and he fury continued all over the years. Here, there, neraly everywhere.

Is there any guiltness out there? No , except for an audience who seemed to like crap. After this. They al loved PHP, Debian, and MySQL. I was three years fighting against a language that seemed to be "perfect".

Then I was into Python. More reasons can be foun here, for example.

Some voices, recall that PHP sucks, even these days. One, two and a recently third opinion can be read if you surf the web.

So I stopped by getting angry myself, I stooped bitng my nails, and decided that still today I might not say loudly that PHP sucks. Except for you; pretentious and absolut beginner who wants to be titled an "expert".


Have fun and enjoy yourself here. Extend your knowledge here.

Safari: Debug

Three or four days ago, I was caring about the debug menu, something I use frequently and that dissapeared from safari 3.1

To recover it, write in Terminal the folowing sentence:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu -bool true

It works again, and again.

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PHP

Today, Sunday, let me entertain you for two seconds explaining you what is PHP about. See it here.

Have fun and enjoy yourself.

How was it done

I have never published something like this before, but now in the best of times, in the worst of times, in the age of wisdom, in the age of foolishness, in the epoch of belief, in the epoch of incredulity, in the season of Light, in the season of Darkness; now we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way- in short , now I will post for you the original code of Ilaria Consolo's web-site.


A project developed using Abobe Flash technologies and Action Script language. No frames, but one and all the code in one frame. The rest were silent.

See how it was done here.

For you, and, obvious to say, please, bookmark this post, and mention the author.

Safari 4 years ago

here

Safari 3.1: No Debug

Uuups!! Debug Menu has dissapeared from Safari 3.1 version.

I tried the old hack under Tiger via Terminal
% defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

and it does...nothing!!

Hope this weekend I will have time to , say, "investigate" how to enable it.

I miss the Shark profile, the Garbage javascript, and the download test features...actions that , I guess, they might remain hidden somewher.

If you know how to enable all the old features of DebugMenu, please, say something.I owe you a beer.

Safari grows

Safari is now 3.1. Brand new features, upon other less or more useless, are:

• Adds option in Safari preferences to turn on the new Develop menu which contains various web development features


• Allows access to Web Inspector


• Allows access to Network Timeline


• Allows editing CSS in the Web Inspector


• Allows custom user agent string


• Improves snippet editor

Update yor Win/Mac PC mate.

Two New Ones

These days, holiday days someone said, we are developing two - or three - brand new projects:

One is aweb-site for Mr. Gary Rosema and his architectural restoration dedicated biz.

Second one, no less important for this grade but, is for Ernesto Carratalá Rey, a well known artist from BCN, Spain.

Both seminal works, under developemnt construction, can be seen here and there.

More soon.

Something worng about Skype

Never had noticed before, and I guess it was not like this , say, a yera or two before.

Do not, please, put the "Skype Me" icon with yours. Strangely, you will receive immediately a "porn-link" in your chat window.

Why is this happenning?? Dunno. Possible reasons:

1. Some of your friends in Skype use his/her computer for something else than work
2. There is a plague, as it is in the WWW

In daytime life I do not have time to analyze this questions, neither to write a mail to Skype Inc wondering why this is happening in a, supposed, private but open, controlled but free, P2P grid.

So, please, do not use the Skype Me, besides you ,little dof, wants to find your mirrored little dog.

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A new lang in slangtown city

Erik says
a strongly typed, class-based object- oriented language based around ideas from game semantics.