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01-01-2008
Welcome to the Alleyway
This first post contains no content of value. It is merely a dusty yellowing newspaper stumbling across a deserted alleyway. The paper billows beyond a veil of steam and the noises of the awakening city clink through the fog. The dawn is arriving.
-- Rob
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09-05-2007
Rails in Lisp
It has occurred to me that it would be interesting to produce something like [Rails][rails] in Lisp. In the interests of brevity and the general entertainment of the drunkenpacket community (all three of you), let’s give this project a pseudo-neat name: RiL.
This post is the first of several where we will discuss the possible implementation of RiL.
What is distinct about Rails:
convention instead of configuration defaults work out of the box and thereby provide for rapid development powerful ORM mechanism integrated template scheme All of these are lovely features.
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-- Rob
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09-04-2007
Interleaing Pages
Recently, the drunkenpacket had the need to unburden himself of a large supply of paper marked with various interesting (but obviously obsolete) information storage squiggles. Having serenditiptious access to a XEROX with a bulk sheet scanner attachment, the packet could not resist the obviously technical temptation: scan the informative squiggles (we think this is called printing or writing). Like all dp side projects, this one seemed to immediately explode with dependencies.
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-- Rob
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11-18-2006
Shake As Paint
There is yet to be an Intel version of PhotoShop on the Mac OSX platform. However, Apple has released a native version of Shake. I have always been entranced with Shake and am wondering if I can use it as an alternative to PhotoShop for image editing tasks?
To answer this question in a series of subsequent blog entries, I will use the motivating example of preparing some mock-ups of a web site.
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-- Rob
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11-16-2006
Rollovers
While writing another blog article (much delayed by too much stumbling) it has come to me that I want a way to make some diagrams that look like a bit like some of the ones found at Instructables.
In particular, this example shows what I mean.
Here is a screen shot if the example has been moved, altered, doesn’t render in your browser etc.
Observe the following:
there is an image it has some high-lighted rectangles If (with the benefit of Instructables’ JavaScript and CSS) I put the cursor over them, it high-lights the region and pops up a description of it So, how can I do this?
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-- Rob
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06-24-2006
Going Left or Going Right
Background Some time ago at work, I had the occasion to move offices. There were a number of reasons for this. However, the reason is not particularly germane. Here, we are concerned with a much more important issue: the new route to the breakroom.
There are now two paths to the breakroom. The choice is agonizing. Do I want to go left or right? The routes seem almost the same length.
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-- Rob
