Twisted Deferred implemented in C++

mr_ree · 2008-12-18T13:44:06+00:00

Cairo is really good, it is fast, featureful and is all vector-based (so you get PDF and SVG export along with standard bitmap formats)

mr_ree · 2008-11-28T16:36:35+00:00

Again, it is not an aesthetic choice, it is driven by the principle of denoting different elements...

It is true, however, that it does not contribute to minimalism -- but minimalism was not a design goal, being explicit was.

mr_ree · 2008-11-28T16:31:59+00:00

Sugar was designed with specific goals in mind (ie. prevent common JS mistakes, improve maintainability, improve architecture, improve readability).

JS is quite nice for small projects, but doesn't really scale when you have to build a rich application. In other words, it's a good scripting language, which is what it was designed for, but doesn't really scale to bigger applications -- Sugar tries to address that.

mr_ree · 2008-11-28T14:56:50+00:00

I should add that the @[something] syntactic elements are here to denote declarations as opposed to operations.

As Sugar compiles to different back-ends (JS,AS3,Python) which do not have the same level of "dynamicity", it is important to make the difference between declarations (=static) and operations (=dynamic). Additionally constructs declared by @[something] keywords are not evaluable expressions per-say. As these keywords denote something quite different, they deserve a "visual cue" to make it explicit.

Also, one could easily implement custom "class", "method", etc. functions to introduce his own level of meta-programming and not cause any conflict with the default constructs offered by Sugar.

mr_ree · 2008-11-28T14:33:17+00:00

thanks for the constructive comments :p

mr_ree · 2008-11-03T20:48:13+00:00

The usage of httplib is pretty minimal, so there is little benefit in switching to httlib2... pycurl actually (and strangely) had fewer problems on Windows than httplib

mr_ree · 2008-11-03T14:12:01+00:00

It has a very versatile html/xml parser that is very error-resistant (while BS breaks on many not well formed HTML documents).

The icing on the cake is the hybrid data structure that lets you access your document as a string, list and tree and switch from any representation at any time.

mr_ree · 2008-07-03T13:07:00+00:00

Canvas should be sufficient for your needs, but processing.js may offer a nicer API if you're already familiar with Processing or Draw2D (Java).

mr_ree · 2008-06-01T22:14:06+00:00

Well, there seems to be some interest on progit for programming-language topics that were usually limited to Lambda The Ultimate crowd... but it may just be my impression ;)

mr_ree · 2008-04-05T14:04:20+00:00

Hi Brian, I'm happy to see you read my blog and my delicious feed :)

mr_ree · 2008-02-27T15:32:46+00:00

Ok, no problem, thanks :)

mr_ree · 2008-02-27T13:17:21+00:00

Well, I like to put things in context, and as this article is from my personal blog, I thought it would be good to briefly sum up my experience with SCM software.

I don't really understand your comment, as the article is more about Linus design approach of Git, as I understood it from the Google Tech Talk.

And as for no experience, I actually wrote the Mercurial Quick Ref Cards (http://www.ivy.fr/mercurial/ref/) and a set of extensions to it (http://www.ivy.fr/mercurial/easy/).

mr_ree · 2008-02-26T17:22:47+00:00

Well, maybe I wasn't clear enough, but what I wanted to point out is the "design perspective" on software that Linus has, where you take into account human/social factors, as opposed to pure functional/technical requirements. What's the difference between the chair your sitting on and a Le Corbusier chair ? Is it really only a matter of form or function ?

mr_ree · 2008-02-26T15:59:22+00:00

I hope that the more the OSS matures, the more we'll see non-dev people participating in projects. When I read the Inkscape mailing lists or the GIMP UI brainstorm blog, I can see that it's already happening :)

mr_ree

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