In the Heat of the Night
Places to visit.
20051130
20051129
20051127
Broken Flowers
Time to finish projects:
One:
Jarclos is a gardener company established in BCN. Upon demand of Trigital, the company who made the design and also contracted us, we were last month implementing the server functionality and programming XML and ActionScript.
In a future, XML will be parsed to a server MySQL data base connected through PHP. For the motion of the elements and tweening we were very proud to use the functions implemented in Fuse-kit, developed by Mr. Moses Gunesch.
Two:
Ilaria Consolo has received it last approval and its finally intended to be published on Monday.
For this project were implemented old functions from AS1 and connected them in a XML procedural way. Simple, so simple due to the need of this project, where main information where the canvas done by the artist.
Also a small piece of electronic music as composed to enhance the visit and realign the site.
Three:
Seitan Disseny Grafic ( not functional right now ) has been a special project for us. The original demand by this BCN design company was to construct a small and simple portfolio. The process covered the initial lay-out and graphic design, and the server and client-side programming. The internal architecture of this site should let Mr. Pere Casasampera to be able to change his portfolio whenever it was needed.
Same tweening classes were used in ActionScript, and also a small piece of music was composed for the occasion. Enjoy it.
And now?
Four:
Well, we are been committed by Mr. Carlos Mata to design a whole mini-site covering his Jewelry collection, and, in a second step re-align (or re-design, as you might prefer ) his current website, prior to an analysis consulting we are developing for him. This project will be covered in two months.
Five:
Segonquart Studio is ready to go, expecting our new site, will be published and re-furnished before Christmas. In a JavaScript webby two points look-a-like, if you are curious.
Before Christmas? Ehem, you know...These things take time.
One:
Jarclos is a gardener company established in BCN. Upon demand of Trigital, the company who made the design and also contracted us, we were last month implementing the server functionality and programming XML and ActionScript.
In a future, XML will be parsed to a server MySQL data base connected through PHP. For the motion of the elements and tweening we were very proud to use the functions implemented in Fuse-kit, developed by Mr. Moses Gunesch.
Two:
Ilaria Consolo has received it last approval and its finally intended to be published on Monday.
For this project were implemented old functions from AS1 and connected them in a XML procedural way. Simple, so simple due to the need of this project, where main information where the canvas done by the artist.
Also a small piece of electronic music as composed to enhance the visit and realign the site.
Three:
Seitan Disseny Grafic
Same tweening classes were used in ActionScript, and also a small piece of music was composed for the occasion. Enjoy it.
And now?
Four:
Well, we are been committed by Mr. Carlos Mata to design a whole mini-site covering his Jewelry collection, and, in a second step re-align (or re-design, as you might prefer ) his current website, prior to an analysis consulting we are developing for him. This project will be covered in two months.
Five:
Segonquart Studio is ready to go, expecting our new site, will be published and re-furnished before Christmas. In a JavaScript webby two points look-a-like, if you are curious.
Before Christmas? Ehem, you know...These things take time.
20051126
No Tears
When you are in classroom, something that happens five or seven days a month, you did explain the problems that chromeless windows presents.
Students, programmers, customers or clients demand pop-ups and full-screen windows, mostly because of some agency ( you know who you are...) had it or used it before.
Apart from the annoying question thing, apart from explaining the difference between a screen and a desk ( e.g: A TV has screen, but my computer has screen and desk ), apart from all that and more, you tried to convince them, - yes you read it well: to convince -, of the needless for chromeless window when publishing a site. Trying to show the main problems one could face, and going further, bringing document types and modules that reproduce XHTML Strict.
You did not invented those modules, in the same way one has not invented the rules for Catalan, Spanish or German. For that simple reason, what you do, and recommend to do, is to follow the properly indications and syntaxes of languages we want to use, as we do in natural languages.
No way. It grows a continuous demand in using chromeless windows ( worst than pop-ups, in your modest opinion...). Users have seen it and," if they exists, it must be for a good reason". Sacred innocence...
An end to this headache seems to be brighten across the horizon: Representatives from the most prominent browser makers -- including Microsoft and Mozilla -- recently gathered to discuss ways to make it clearer to users which Web sites are safe and which are fake.
If they adopte a final and common decision, hoping so, we will not see more pop-ups floating over our desk, as we don't see them when, say, we do Internet using a cellular phone...
This are, of course, my own conclusions, based in your secret-and-not-told-but-meant willing for a future Web, after reading this article.
No tears from the creatures of pop-ups.
Via 456bereastreet.
Students, programmers, customers or clients demand pop-ups and full-screen windows, mostly because of some agency ( you know who you are...) had it or used it before.
Apart from the annoying question thing, apart from explaining the difference between a screen and a desk ( e.g: A TV has screen, but my computer has screen and desk ), apart from all that and more, you tried to convince them, - yes you read it well: to convince -, of the needless for chromeless window when publishing a site. Trying to show the main problems one could face, and going further, bringing document types and modules that reproduce XHTML Strict.
You did not invented those modules, in the same way one has not invented the rules for Catalan, Spanish or German. For that simple reason, what you do, and recommend to do, is to follow the properly indications and syntaxes of languages we want to use, as we do in natural languages.
No way. It grows a continuous demand in using chromeless windows ( worst than pop-ups, in your modest opinion...). Users have seen it and," if they exists, it must be for a good reason". Sacred innocence...
An end to this headache seems to be brighten across the horizon: Representatives from the most prominent browser makers -- including Microsoft and Mozilla -- recently gathered to discuss ways to make it clearer to users which Web sites are safe and which are fake.
If they adopte a final and common decision, hoping so, we will not see more pop-ups floating over our desk, as we don't see them when, say, we do Internet using a cellular phone...
This are, of course, my own conclusions, based in your secret-and-not-told-but-meant willing for a future Web, after reading this article.
No tears from the creatures of pop-ups.
Via 456bereastreet.
Taking the dirt away XIII
Tim Berners-Lee has participate in a podcast interview about the Semantic Web and future of the Web.
Mr.Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web and one of the people behind the vision of the Semantic Web.
...() I've been working on Semantic Web since I've been working on the web, which is basically since 1989. The idea was the web should be a web for all media and now it's media in the sense of multimedia it's media in the sense of information for people Like web pages, like movies, like ... sounds so all the things produced by people and absorbed by people. The web has proved to be a space for. But the data out there which actually is also not so exciting perhaps but really important part of our lives, like economic data and data that runs the business is not on the web. So when you go to a website, ...and it's got data behind it in fact cos it's for example the weather website().... So the Semantic Web is about making that possible, but really is just completing the web vision. So we've been working on it for long time, and it just we ended up getting distracted by the others things that seemed more important at the time like multimedia()...
Grab it here, or read the transcript there.
Mr.Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web and one of the people behind the vision of the Semantic Web.
...() I've been working on Semantic Web since I've been working on the web, which is basically since 1989. The idea was the web should be a web for all media and now it's media in the sense of multimedia it's media in the sense of information for people Like web pages, like movies, like ... sounds so all the things produced by people and absorbed by people. The web has proved to be a space for. But the data out there which actually is also not so exciting perhaps but really important part of our lives, like economic data and data that runs the business is not on the web. So when you go to a website, ...and it's got data behind it in fact cos it's for example the weather website().... So the Semantic Web is about making that possible, but really is just completing the web vision. So we've been working on it for long time, and it just we ended up getting distracted by the others things that seemed more important at the time like multimedia()...
Grab it here, or read the transcript there.
Less is Bless
Time to mention the not-so-old article Less as a competitive advantage: My 10 minutes at Web 2.0 by Jason Fried exposed in 37signals.
The article shows the idea of using less as a competitive advantage. In my modest opinion, this is the best definition of less-Zen design. Less favors your competition, it's true, and one should say it without prejudices. List of things to be done include forgetting all that bureaucratic attitude ( Cold War mentality, as Mr. Fried defines it). One should think about the reasons why ranges are established.
Jason Fried, in doing it, gives us a different approach: Do less than your competitors to beat them.
From Less Abstractions:
The best way to deal with less time is to do less paper work, less busy work, less abstracted work. This means do less stuff that isn'tt real. Less boxes and arrows. Less charts. Less documentation. Less stuff that is abstracted from the real thing,— the real product your actual customers will see.
From: More Constraints:
Let your competitors kill themselves trying to solve the big complex problems.
Let your competitors kill themselves trying to solve the big complex problems...Well.
The article shows the idea of using less as a competitive advantage. In my modest opinion, this is the best definition of less-Zen design. Less favors your competition, it's true, and one should say it without prejudices. List of things to be done include forgetting all that bureaucratic attitude ( Cold War mentality, as Mr. Fried defines it). One should think about the reasons why ranges are established.
Jason Fried, in doing it, gives us a different approach: Do less than your competitors to beat them.
From Less Abstractions:
The best way to deal with less time is to do less paper work, less busy work, less abstracted work. This means do less stuff that isn'tt real. Less boxes and arrows. Less charts. Less documentation. Less stuff that is abstracted from the real thing,— the real product your actual customers will see.
From: More Constraints:
Let your competitors kill themselves trying to solve the big complex problems.
Let your competitors kill themselves trying to solve the big complex problems...Well.
20051123
Black Commandments
You may need this:
The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities.
Sans Institute list what you should know, if you should.
Via the blog of Mr. Pete Freitag
The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities.
Sans Institute list what you should know, if you should.
Via the blog of Mr. Pete Freitag
The Ideal Copy
It does not exist.
It didn't when I had one, and it will never do.
Software fails, code report bugs... Being a student means you should expect things will go wrong. Perfection does not exist, and, in most cases, learning something is done by learning its mistakes.
Human beings, remember, do act by analogy, and behaving analogies we always refer the copy, not the original. Sense and Reference.
In addition,if learning one should adopt a humble attitude. Re-discover what it was told and forget, in most of the cases, erroneous ways of learning that had been acquired.
This is why teaching can be hard. Because a teacher meets bad habits or bad attitudes; making , the teacher, to lost credit in the audience. And there are no smart tricks to escape from this. One can not prevent bad attitudes, except if one breaks the rules.
People expect from the teacher,say, to clear dubts. Wrong is no good.
How to Report Bugs Effectively, an article to be titled "How to adopt a positive attitude when you are a programmer beginner", or "Mistakes done by people when attending a private course".
Let me to replace, without permission of the author, some words to catch the meaning:
"Questions that say nothing ("It doesn't work!"); questions that make no sense; questions that shows a lack of information; questions that give classroom's mates wrong information. Questions of problems that turn out to be student error; questions of problems that turn out to be the fault of somebody else's course; questions of problems that turn out to be network (or machine) failures. There's a reason why teaching software is seen as a horrible job to be in".
I've found that reason.
It didn't when I had one, and it will never do.
Software fails, code report bugs... Being a student means you should expect things will go wrong. Perfection does not exist, and, in most cases, learning something is done by learning its mistakes.
Human beings, remember, do act by analogy, and behaving analogies we always refer the copy, not the original. Sense and Reference.
In addition,if learning one should adopt a humble attitude. Re-discover what it was told and forget, in most of the cases, erroneous ways of learning that had been acquired.
This is why teaching can be hard. Because a teacher meets bad habits or bad attitudes; making , the teacher, to lost credit in the audience. And there are no smart tricks to escape from this. One can not prevent bad attitudes, except if one breaks the rules.
People expect from the teacher,say, to clear dubts. Wrong is no good.
How to Report Bugs Effectively, an article to be titled "How to adopt a positive attitude when you are a programmer beginner", or "Mistakes done by people when attending a private course".
Let me to replace, without permission of the author, some words to catch the meaning:
"Questions that say nothing ("It doesn't work!"); questions that make no sense; questions that shows a lack of information; questions that give classroom's mates wrong information. Questions of problems that turn out to be student error; questions of problems that turn out to be the fault of somebody else's course; questions of problems that turn out to be network (or machine) failures. There's a reason why teaching software is seen as a horrible job to be in".
I've found that reason.
Open Doors
I have mentioned before, not the benefits of working with an operative system or another, but my predilections and choice in the matter. This does not mean I ban or evangelize people for using and abusing one OS in favour to another. I am a proud user of MAC OS X, but it does not mean I am against watever it is not Macintosh.
Statistics from this site, reflect the operating system used by visitors of this - your - blog. Here they are:
Most visitors, most of you speaking in plain terms, visit this blog using Windows OS. A total of an 82,56 percent compared to a 17,44 percent using MAC OS or Linux.
Are you a Firefox beleiver? Take care: Today I'm not talking about browsers, but OS.
So, Win user visitors might found OpenCD useful.
I came over OpenCd tonight, the OpenCD project aims to introduce users of MS-Windows to the benefits of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
The release of source allows external observers to inspect the true functioning of the program, which means that you can be confident that the program treats your private data with respect. A real problem with proprietary software can be that your data is locked in to a software's proprietary file format, which means that you may eventually be forced to upgrade to newer versions of that software to retain access to your data.
If you are curious, or you want to save money, or you like to be a geek; you can always get your cd here. And see what goes on.
Statistics from this site, reflect the operating system used by visitors of this - your - blog. Here they are:
| Operative Systems | OS | Visitors | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Unknow | 321 | 41,15% |
| Windows XP | WinXP | 256 | 32.38% |
| MacOS | MAC OS X | 128 | 16.41% |
| Win2000 | Win 2000 | 48 | 6.15% |
| Win98 | Win 98 | 14 | 1.79% |
| Linux | Linux | 7 | 0.90% |
| WinME | Win ME | 3 | 0.38% |
| WinNT | Win NT | 2 | 0.26% |
| SunOS | SunOS | 1 | 0.13% |
Most visitors, most of you speaking in plain terms, visit this blog using Windows OS. A total of an 82,56 percent compared to a 17,44 percent using MAC OS or Linux.
Are you a Firefox beleiver? Take care: Today I'm not talking about browsers, but OS.
So, Win user visitors might found OpenCD useful.
I came over OpenCd tonight, the OpenCD project aims to introduce users of MS-Windows to the benefits of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
The release of source allows external observers to inspect the true functioning of the program, which means that you can be confident that the program treats your private data with respect. A real problem with proprietary software can be that your data is locked in to a software's proprietary file format, which means that you may eventually be forced to upgrade to newer versions of that software to retain access to your data.
If you are curious, or you want to save money, or you like to be a geek; you can always get your cd here. And see what goes on.
20051122
20051121
Power Point Kills Brain Cells II
Part Two: Here.
Microsoft did not invent PowerPoint. That honor goes to a small company called Forethought, which released PowerPoint for the Mac in 1987. The company was then purchased by Microsoft and the Windows version of PowerPoint eventually hit the market in 1990...And the world hasn't been the same since.
A suggestion to explore the incredible world of Zen: Have a look here.
Part One still can be read: Here.
Microsoft did not invent PowerPoint. That honor goes to a small company called Forethought, which released PowerPoint for the Mac in 1987. The company was then purchased by Microsoft and the Windows version of PowerPoint eventually hit the market in 1990...And the world hasn't been the same since.
A suggestion to explore the incredible world of Zen: Have a look here.
Part One still can be read: Here.
20051119
20051118
Dialogs
Marc Weidenbaum rules and edits Disquiet.
Disquiet offers reflections on ambient/electronic music, and interviews with the people who make it.
In its October edition offered a must read dialog/interview with composer Kenneth Kirschner.
The interview contains pearls like:
New York-based composer Kenneth Kirschner is a believer. "If I have a religion in life," he says, "it's the iPod."
Or this one:
... Kirschner's art is enabled by it. In Kirschner's case, that technology is Flash, the ubiquitous multimedia software language that powers countless Internet websites. Kirschner uses Flash to compose ever-changing pieces of music. These compositions generally consist of a set number of MP3s that are randomly layered simultaneously, and that can play for as long as the listener desires. A piece of music that is indeterminate — to borrow a word from John Cage, one of Kirschner's role models — has no inherent end.
We mentioned Mr. Kirschner before in this ( your) blog. Discovering him a bit more through Disquiet.com it was a pleasure.
Disquiet offers reflections on ambient/electronic music, and interviews with the people who make it.
In its October edition offered a must read dialog/interview with composer Kenneth Kirschner.
The interview contains pearls like:
New York-based composer Kenneth Kirschner is a believer. "If I have a religion in life," he says, "it's the iPod."
Or this one:
... Kirschner's art is enabled by it. In Kirschner's case, that technology is Flash, the ubiquitous multimedia software language that powers countless Internet websites. Kirschner uses Flash to compose ever-changing pieces of music. These compositions generally consist of a set number of MP3s that are randomly layered simultaneously, and that can play for as long as the listener desires. A piece of music that is indeterminate — to borrow a word from John Cage, one of Kirschner's role models — has no inherent end.
We mentioned Mr. Kirschner before in this ( your) blog. Discovering him a bit more through Disquiet.com it was a pleasure.
Software for MAC OS X
Marcel Bresnik has published a collection of interesting books about MAC OS X, apart from this, He, and his company are responsibles of developing couple of freeware and shareware software. Software anyone who uses a Mac should pay attention.
My choice is Tinker Tool.
TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. It will never change any component of the operating system, so the integrity of your system is not put at risk, and there will be no negative effect on system updates.
Nowadays, you might prefer Tinker Tool System.
It allows you to change advanced operating system settings and offers a wide variety of maintenance features. The latest version comes with powerful new functions, e.g. verifying the integrity of preference files or removing superfluous language packages.
An intelligent way to spend seven bucks. A happy way, for me. I like to start MAC OS X with the diagnostic messages. It makes me feel I have a powerful computer machine.
Yes, you're right: J.G. Ballard...
My choice is Tinker Tool.
TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. It will never change any component of the operating system, so the integrity of your system is not put at risk, and there will be no negative effect on system updates.
Nowadays, you might prefer Tinker Tool System.
It allows you to change advanced operating system settings and offers a wide variety of maintenance features. The latest version comes with powerful new functions, e.g. verifying the integrity of preference files or removing superfluous language packages.
An intelligent way to spend seven bucks. A happy way, for me. I like to start MAC OS X with the diagnostic messages. It makes me feel I have a powerful computer machine.
Yes, you're right: J.G. Ballard...
20051114
Let that movie play slowly
Apaga y Vámonos, the documentary for which I was genttle proposed to compose the original score last year, it will be screening this month at the next festivals:
- Queens International film festival (New York)
- Latin American film festival (London)
- Karafilm Festival (Pakistan)
20051111
Europe Endless
Thanks to Mr. Markus Angemeier for letting us know about Read.io. A new podcast service born in Europe.
Read.io converts RSS-feeds to MP3 files, which can be subscribed as podcasts in your favourite podcatching client. A brand new service created and offered by Aperto and Readspeaker
Readio is ready to speak english, german and french ( miss some spaniard and catalan, may we help?).
Be patient. Right now is under Private alpha testing. A kindly link offered by Non Fiction bring us a brief.
End connection.
Wait, wait! There is more:
What happens after a Sleepless Night:
Incredible. Markus rocks.
Read.io converts RSS-feeds to MP3 files, which can be subscribed as podcasts in your favourite podcatching client. A brand new service created and offered by Aperto and Readspeaker
Readio is ready to speak english, german and french ( miss some spaniard and catalan, may we help?).
Be patient. Right now is under Private alpha testing. A kindly link offered by Non Fiction bring us a brief.
End connection.
Wait, wait! There is more:
What happens after a Sleepless Night:
Incredible. Markus rocks.
20051110
Free At Last II
IDE solutions for Java from SUN, Java Studio Enterprise 8 and Java Studio Creator 2004Q2 are free to download.
Of course, with a subscription to Sun Developer Network (SDN).
More Soon.
Of course, with a subscription to Sun Developer Network (SDN).
More Soon.
20051109
Paintings
Ilaria Consolo was born in Italy in 1962. Developing a career in Milano as Art Director in advertising companies, and later as in house-designer editorial illustrator.
In 1993 she settled down in the Balearic Islands (Spain), covering interior design for clubs and pubs in Ibiza and Formentera.
In the year 2000 she did move to Barcelona where she lives and works until today.
Involved in a Fine Arts and Illustrator career which covers: Portraits, story-boards and comic; Ilaria extends her scope doing eventual collaborations with musicians or multimedia artists.
Her work is currently exhibited in diverse countries of Europe like Germany, Italy or Spain.
Her website, conceived, designed and programmed at Segonquart Studio, is going to be worlwide published on Friday.
Keep on.
In 1993 she settled down in the Balearic Islands (Spain), covering interior design for clubs and pubs in Ibiza and Formentera.
In the year 2000 she did move to Barcelona where she lives and works until today.
Involved in a Fine Arts and Illustrator career which covers: Portraits, story-boards and comic; Ilaria extends her scope doing eventual collaborations with musicians or multimedia artists.
Her work is currently exhibited in diverse countries of Europe like Germany, Italy or Spain.
Her website, conceived, designed and programmed at Segonquart Studio, is going to be worlwide published on Friday.
Keep on.
20051107
Listen, kids!
True Confession:
I'm not really into PHP. I used to get icurious about six years ago, and life move me into another languages. Maybe,you might think, less overwieved, maybe more sophisticated, but that was my choice.
Negative Reasons
One. I use to look at syntaxis first. And the syntax of PHP doen not have charm for me. Call it an aesthetical criteria, that's notation about. PHP is like a shaked mix of C, Perl and whatever. Functional, true, but I do not live in a hotel, the most functional space to live in the world. So why functionallity should bother me?
Two. I do not like that
Couldn't they find a more appropiate word, for example
However, due to a trendy movement, helped by well-known institutions and a bunch of selfeducated aficionados programmers and college teachers ( Where were you in 1997, matess?) PHP has taken over the world wide web in our days.
If you are not able to program a simple PHP script, then you are not able to design a website.
So I am not. I am not the kind of person who, programming PHP, spends forty hours a week, four weeks a month, living in mummy's home winning 540€ monthly paid for a PHP supposed developers' job.
Positive Reasons
All above expressed does not mean, of course, I do not follow and read PHP concerning news frequently. Mostly because it is implemented in my MAC OS X system. And also because I like to know what to do and how to do it.
Reading OSX Code today, I've found this interesting, rather funniest, article.
The Moral:
If you’re already a PHP Programmer, I’m sure you already know about a lot of the mistakes outlined here, and if not have a look at it in order to become a better coder.
From part one:
Improper use of printf
Misapplying Semantics
Lack of Inline Documentation
Too many variables, too much time
Rewriting existing PHP functions
Not separating client side from server side
Using Outdated Paradigms
From part two:
Not Following Basic Naming Conventions
Not Thinking Things Through: Databases & SQL
Lack of Error Checking
Overusing OO
Misusing Regular Expressions
Programming PHP Like It Was Some Other Language
Not Being Security Conscious
From part three:
Cut and Paste Coding: The Wrong Way
Not Having Project Code Guidelines
Not Doing a Code Review
Hacking at Design Flaws
Excluding the User from the Design Process
Not Sticking to a Project Plan
Getting Lost in Time
Postdata:
Kids, let me see your code.
I'm not really into PHP. I used to get icurious about six years ago, and life move me into another languages. Maybe,you might think, less overwieved, maybe more sophisticated, but that was my choice.
Negative Reasons
One. I use to look at syntaxis first. And the syntax of PHP doen not have charm for me. Call it an aesthetical criteria, that's notation about. PHP is like a shaked mix of C, Perl and whatever. Functional, true, but I do not live in a hotel, the most functional space to live in the world. So why functionallity should bother me?
Two. I do not like that
do or kill order PHP has into it. Says a lot about the person who invented it.Couldn't they find a more appropiate word, for example
do and stop or delete if not done?However, due to a trendy movement, helped by well-known institutions and a bunch of selfeducated aficionados programmers and college teachers ( Where were you in 1997, matess?) PHP has taken over the world wide web in our days.
If you are not able to program a simple PHP script, then you are not able to design a website.
So I am not. I am not the kind of person who, programming PHP, spends forty hours a week, four weeks a month, living in mummy's home winning 540€ monthly paid for a PHP supposed developers' job.
Positive Reasons
All above expressed does not mean, of course, I do not follow and read PHP concerning news frequently. Mostly because it is implemented in my MAC OS X system. And also because I like to know what to do and how to do it.
Reading OSX Code today, I've found this interesting, rather funniest, article.
The Moral:
If you’re already a PHP Programmer, I’m sure you already know about a lot of the mistakes outlined here, and if not have a look at it in order to become a better coder.
From part one:
Improper use of printf
Misapplying Semantics
Lack of Inline Documentation
Too many variables, too much time
Rewriting existing PHP functions
Not separating client side from server side
Using Outdated Paradigms
From part two:
Not Following Basic Naming Conventions
Not Thinking Things Through: Databases & SQL
Lack of Error Checking
Overusing OO
Misusing Regular Expressions
Programming PHP Like It Was Some Other Language
Not Being Security Conscious
From part three:
Cut and Paste Coding: The Wrong Way
Not Having Project Code Guidelines
Not Doing a Code Review
Hacking at Design Flaws
Excluding the User from the Design Process
Not Sticking to a Project Plan
Getting Lost in Time
Postdata:
Kids, let me see your code.
Seek and Find
Just in case you pas by Montreal this weekend, don't miss the chance to have a break and see some good films. Documentaries, I mean.
From 10th until 20th November this year, Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire reaches its eight edition in Canada.
In Québec, as in Montréal, they were driven by the desire to bring new films and filmmakers to audiences with a passion for stories from reality.
As Philippe Baylaucq, the President of the event, remarks:
The infamous “society of the spectacle” described by Guy Debord is more of a reality than ever. Thrust onto the public stage, newsmakers rattle on in real time; the pros and cons of serious issues are served up as sound bites; and cocktail-party lines supplant real understanding of the world’s complexity. Such debate in the public arena may be entertaining, but what is left of any substance when the frantic movement stops and the oh-so-democratic babble subsides?....
....The Rencontres provides such a space, in which to mull over these questions and many others. It welcomes the harvest of films that have reached maturity in the past two years. Each documentary manifests the complexity of its era and bears witness to the time required to develop a full-bodied vision of things.
I'm going to be there, not physically, but virtually.
See you there.
From 10th until 20th November this year, Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire reaches its eight edition in Canada.
In Québec, as in Montréal, they were driven by the desire to bring new films and filmmakers to audiences with a passion for stories from reality.
As Philippe Baylaucq, the President of the event, remarks:
The infamous “society of the spectacle” described by Guy Debord is more of a reality than ever. Thrust onto the public stage, newsmakers rattle on in real time; the pros and cons of serious issues are served up as sound bites; and cocktail-party lines supplant real understanding of the world’s complexity. Such debate in the public arena may be entertaining, but what is left of any substance when the frantic movement stops and the oh-so-democratic babble subsides?....
....The Rencontres provides such a space, in which to mull over these questions and many others. It welcomes the harvest of films that have reached maturity in the past two years. Each documentary manifests the complexity of its era and bears witness to the time required to develop a full-bodied vision of things.
I'm going to be there, not physically, but virtually.
See you there.
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Nine o Nine
A small oasis of calm in these days of pre-tense work:
Nine Horses.
Yes, I know, I'm getting older...
Next web releases soon, maybe tomorrow?. Maybe.
Nine Horses.
Yes, I know, I'm getting older...
Next web releases soon, maybe tomorrow?. Maybe.
20051102
Free At Last
Oracle, released a free version of its database: Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE).
Clouds
As a part of an experimental project in image treatment I'm currently on, when not developing or composing, Clouds has had a favourable review in Phirebrush Magazine this month's issue .
Phirebrush online magazine reaches, now, its 33th edition. It is always a good new than a magazine devoted to Art ( in any of their external expression) can keep on their constructive work.
Phirebrush team is directed by Mr. Jason Krieger.
About Phirebrush describes the mag as : an online magazine (art group if you want) that displays user submissions in monthly issues. These submissions showcase visitor submitted artwork, photography, music, desktop wallpapers and writings of various styles. Unlike most art groups and e-zines, we let ANYONE submit, trying to showcase both the famous and beginners, giving everyone a voice and a chance in the spotlight. Along with each issue we release an interview as well. We try to spread the variety around, one month talking to an artist, another month with a photographer or maybe a band, spreading insight into their minds and styles.
I've been following, and reading, Phirebrush from its eleventh edition until today. Coming from a pixel layout, Phirebrush started off in October of 2001, and always had a taste and sense of choice that made, to me, this online magazine a point du departure with fresh collaborations, selected interviews, serious articles and some pretty propaganda posters to download.
So, what is Phirebrush? Phirebrush is whatever you make it to be..
That sounds quite honest, and close to the origins of the WWW as we heard it. Have a look.
Phirebrush online magazine reaches, now, its 33th edition. It is always a good new than a magazine devoted to Art ( in any of their external expression) can keep on their constructive work.
Phirebrush team is directed by Mr. Jason Krieger.
About Phirebrush describes the mag as : an online magazine (art group if you want) that displays user submissions in monthly issues. These submissions showcase visitor submitted artwork, photography, music, desktop wallpapers and writings of various styles. Unlike most art groups and e-zines, we let ANYONE submit, trying to showcase both the famous and beginners, giving everyone a voice and a chance in the spotlight. Along with each issue we release an interview as well. We try to spread the variety around, one month talking to an artist, another month with a photographer or maybe a band, spreading insight into their minds and styles.
I've been following, and reading, Phirebrush from its eleventh edition until today. Coming from a pixel layout, Phirebrush started off in October of 2001, and always had a taste and sense of choice that made, to me, this online magazine a point du departure with fresh collaborations, selected interviews, serious articles and some pretty propaganda posters to download.
So, what is Phirebrush? Phirebrush is whatever you make it to be..
That sounds quite honest, and close to the origins of the WWW as we heard it. Have a look.
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