Template Design: Beta

I just finished developing a simple template design for an Institutional client we have here, at Segonquart Studio

Development is still going on, but there is always a sense of happinees when things goes on smoothly. More Soon.

What I am reading

Tools for the Modern Programmer

In the jargon of the computer programmer, a hacker is someone who strives to solve problems in elegant and ingenious ways. Part of the path to elegantly solving larger problems is to use tools that solve sub-problems very well.

Open Issues

HTML 5 is defined in a way that it is backwards compatible with the way user agents handle deployed content. To keep the authoring language relatively simple for authors several elements and attributes are not included as outlined in the other sections of this document, such as presentational elements that are better dealt with using CSS.

GOOGLE WILL EAT ITSELF

By establishing this autocannibalistic model we deconstruct the new global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-based economic model..

Enhancements in Invisible Code

I have recently practicing some enhancements - say code enhancements - to Pere Espinosa's web-site, a crefted product we like to care here, at Segonquart Studio, adding an external connection via the "blog" tagged main menu link in the site.

The link stumbles you to auamusic a brilliant initiative based on your support to the local community of singers and bands around her. Worth a Click. :)

Connections

Summer Projects: Beta

18 th July : DJ Vinilette

Fist Boat 9th July

FIST BOAT: Third Summer of Love

The New Assembly

Mr. Nick Mudge suggest in this interesting article, on Javascript, considered as harmful as Assembly.

Twelve years ago, I faced those departments of those spaniard Universities, being rejected for my firm believe in Javascript as the new Tool in programming languages. Twelve years ago, that nightmare meant you have to make every single second a clearly distinction between Java and JavaScript, for all those programmers who might interviewed you.

Remember myself dissapearing then, as the cat from Alice dissapeared, with the shadow of a big smile, and no results on being contracted for the job.

After reading the cleverly opinions of Mr. Mudge in the article I recommend to you, I have the sensation - say, feeling - this problem is still around in our days.

In our days I am facing my work inside an IT department, in which Haskell paradigmis a case againstEvent-Driven paradigm language approach, a case in order to resolve an application.

Taking a positive decision - the scary "first step" - decision to start building our app. , seems to me, more a philosophical question rather than a technical skill approach.

Are we living in a perennial ecosystem ?, Or in an event-based society, azarous and changing environtment?

You decide the model you want to represent and make public. Do not forget we have, in these days, something called the Web:

People are now demonstrating that you can have a persistent HTTP connection so that events on the server and events on the client are blurred. Your client applications, and your server applications, because they can be persistently connected rather than request-response connected, essentially exist all in the same event cloud. This gets us back to development paradigms, such as Visual Basic or client-server, while maintaining all of the cost benefits of deploying over the Web...

Your opinions would be welcome, while I put my efforts on evnts. Read more about my choice on Events , here.

European Son

Route 66

In my Safari 4.0's log appeared the trace of a cookie just few minutes ago. I wonder who send it to me. I Cutted and Pasted the IP address that appeared in my Browser's cookies Log to Google's Search Engine, then I fired up Terminal in my old but beloved OS X Machine.

Here there is the traceroute print, for your safety and pleasure.


traceroute to 213.8.137.51 (213.8.137.51), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 undefined-192 (192.168.1.1) 0.665 ms 0.403 ms 0.377 ms
2 undefined-192 (192.168.153.1) 42.095 ms 42.552 ms 41.369 ms
3 145.red-80-58-117.staticip.rima-tde.net (80.58.117.145) 99.092 ms 41.316 ms 41.390 ms
4 so2-0-0-0-grtbcntb1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (84.16.6.65) 41.901 ms 42.772 ms *
5 so2-1-0-0-grtparix3.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (213.140.36.202) 67.634 ms 59.829 ms 60.897 ms
6 tiscali-7-1-0-0-grtparix3.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (213.140.53.146) 72.404 ms 131.938 ms 68.014 ms
7 xe-7-3-0.fra21.ip.tiscali.net (89.149.185.201) 79.548 ms 128.048 ms 107.145 ms
8 smilecommunications.tenge5-4.br02.frf02.pccwbtn.net (63.218.15.50) 82.827 ms 77.809 ms 82.202 ms
9 80.179.166.70.static.012.net.il (80.179.166.70) 82.075 ms brdr.mr-01-pos3-0.012.net.il (80.179.166.26) 131.243 ms 80.179.166.70.static.012.net.il (80.179.166.70) 83.423 ms
10 ariela02-gig2-3.inter.net.il (192.116.203.26) 186.153 ms 134.421 ms 129.326 ms
11 ariela02-gig2-3.inter.net.il (192.116.203.26) 137.193 ms 213.8.206.49 (213.8.206.49) 129.530 ms 133.507 ms
12 right720-gig1-7.inter.net.il (213.8.9.249) 142.800 ms 213.8.206.49 (213.8.206.49) 135.192 ms right720-gig1-7.inter.net.il (213.8.9.249) 150.645 ms
13 up-gig9-2.inter.net.il (192.117.181.82) 136.004 ms 230.499 ms 205.973 ms
14 * * up-gig9-2.inter.net.il (192.117.181.82) 145.066 ms
15 * * *


Uneeded to say, I am actually residing in BCN, as you might have noticed. Your comments are, as always have been, welcome.

Holy Mariah

A new birth on the WW World : http://opendatabasealliance.com/

HTML5 by Ian Hickson

The HTML5 effort started with two main foci: defining the existing
language in far more detail than before, for various reasons, and
extending the language to better support Web applications, since that is
one of the directions the Web is going in and is one of the areas least
well served by HTML so far.

This puts HTML in direct competition with other technologies intended for
applications deployed over the Web, in particular Flash and Silverlight.

Read the thread here

PHP sucks ( chapter five )

Yet another "welcome back in three months, sir" project, due to my complete misunderstanding of PHP ( s***s!) language OOPish oriented to who-knows-where.

Some e-links to recover my lost self-confidence:

• PHP v XML & Char encoding
• PHP v MySQL & Unicode
• Neighbours cheating against the MVC
• PHP v Namespaces
• PHP v Namespaces
• Delfi Ramirez's Pipes

Higher than "Las Grecas"

So this year I switched to Python

Language design is like architecture. The architect is bound by the rules of nature, he has to take into account the properties of the building materials, and he must never forget the purpose that the building will serve. Likewise, the designer of a programming language is bound by the theorems of computability theory, he must take into account the properties of the underlying hardware, and he must never forget that the language is used by programmers.

read the complete article written by Mr. Andrej Bauer here

NewWebPick Award

Laura Honse's web-site, developed by the team at Segonquart Studio has got NEWWEBPICK QUALIFICATION because of the design and technology.

Lol.

Flash Lite is the new Java

Sony Ericcson Developer's page has announced the new Capuccino Project. Not stronger and bitter as a cup of Java, Capuccino lets you and me to develop applications, interfaces, games or whatever your client need, using the Flash Lite 2.0 Platform.

Get the Specs and Downloads, here.

Events vs The World

Mr. Dean Edwards, has written a clever article on Callbacks.

The important thing is that I’ve demonstrated a technique for wrapping a callback system in a real event dispatch system. That gives you the ability to fire real custom events in MSIE. If you are building an event system based on event delegation then this technique may also be interesting to you.

Read the complete article here.

Work In Progress ( Part II )

Work on Progress

Omniweb

Omniweb has been, for a long time, besides being easy and fun, a fave browser for those of us, who develop and design for the 3W with a Mac platform.

Omniweb is not a new kid on the block, but a browser that has been around us - geeks - since the year 2000.

OmniWeb was originally developed by Omni Group and released by Lighthouse Design for the NextStep platform on March 17, 1995. As NextStep evolved into OpenStep and then Mac OS X, OmniWeb was updated to run on these platforms. OmniWeb also briefly ran on Microsoft Windows through the Yellow Box or the OpenStep frameworks.

Now Omniweb is - as near all the browsers you, newbie, use everyday in your computer - free.

It offers quite advantatges over other browsers we use to love. First: its native Cocoa bundling, second it is designed for the Mac OS X environtment, so you might easily extend it via Cocoa or AppleScript.

Third: Its Page Info manager, where you can see easily how everything you, upload to the server can be examined/downloaded without any kind off difficulty as you can see in the image before:




This is, the famous advantage of Flash as a tool were you can keep safe your images from being stolen, is clearly deconstructed here. I mean, this is not.

The importance of my last referring is that now, more than ever, standars may have its place in the developers world, in comparison to other frameworks promoted by gurus either agencies, sometimes as a clear advantage for the client: "There are things that can't be done without the Flash technology"quote; others as a merely question of incompetence by their side.

Omniweb, as a browser, becomes a serious tool for developers that until now, unillingly to pay afor a propiertary browser, have ignored its capabilities.

The group justifies this decission that ets you and me the right to use Omniweb for free, as it follows: Because we’re a small company and we don’t have unlimited engineering resources, by necessity certain projects are going to take up more of our attention. Instead of continuing to charge for these four applications, which aren’t getting updated as frequently as our other titles, we felt it would better serve the community to make them available at no cost.

There is also an add on, for you, to give this weekend Omniweb a try: It has the same , say, flavour that Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS 9 had. And we all remember ie5 for Mac OS 8/9 was the realbrowser that we, Macintosh people, ever had in the past century.

Note: Maybe you do not agree comfortable with the look-and-feel Omniweb has, looking as if you were back to 2001.
No problem. Mr John Hicks, has some wonderful Tiger and ITunes themes for your - from now own - favourite browser.

Go ahead. Download Omniweb Browser for free here.