The apps I write use XMLHttpRequest and change the contents of div elements. This seems supported on Opera Mobile.
It seems Flex 3.0 doesn't work unless you have the latest version of Flash. So not only does it break for certain Linux users, but also for people who don't update their plugins (example: my parents, who NEVER see the little yellow bar that says "click here to install").
AJAX is definitely more widely supported, but for apps which are used internally to my company, I have don't have to worry about supporting oddball systems. If I can get this Flex app I'm working on right now to populate a table from a database when the user clicks a button, and it's not too hard, I really will give flex a go for the next internal app.......
Flash does NOT work with 64bit Firefox on 64bit Linux, at least last time I checked. It doesn't work on some mobile phones, either.
So AJAX done right will be more widely supported, and completely open, but it takes more effort to develop than Flex apps. OK that's a simple tradeoff if you don't mind vendor lock-in.
According to wikipedia, Flex is based on Flash. I would argue that slashdot's comment threshold control should not be loading flash apps, and shouldn't be doing that weird horizontal scroll thing. Simple html radio buttons would provide sufficient UI controls for selecting your viewing threshold. Many complaints people have with Javascript come from people overusing Javascript.
I haven't looked much into Silverlight, but my understanding is that, like flash, it requires you install some proprietary software.
So if your users need to install extra software to make your web apps work (breaking things like searchability in the process) it would seem that acheives the opposite of "it Just Works."
If I am still misunderstanding Flex/Silverlight, please correct me. As a web app developer, I would be interested in tools that hide the complexity of HTML/Javascript, but NOT at the expense of forcing my users to install plugins like Flash.
I'm no opensource zealot, but I just can't see a $700 proprietary app platform like Adobe Flex ever replacing an open standard like HTML as the backbone of the web.
Looking at some flex apps, it seems you can't even use extremely basic features like Ctrl-F to search through the text of the page! Flash has never been good at anything except web video.
It's telling that Adobe's Flex showcase actually runs the opensource Drupal CMS.
The combination of HTML's form controls and Javascript's XMLHttpRequest gives web app designers the power they need to implement 99% of applications as webapps with very little compromise vs. thick-client apps.
Personally, I care very little about the rest of Javascript's abilities. Most often when I see them used, they add nothing useful to the functionality of the applications--just complexity and gee-whiz UI silliness.
Why was I not invited to participate in this study? No matter which test group you are assigned to, you end up getting tail. I happen to be a strong proponent of getting tail.
Your pedantry isn't too impressive. The result is the same. In a modern very-high-level language, if you want a non-trivial datastructure, like a hash of arrays, you just declare a hash of arrays. Not so in perl. There you have to use a hash of references to anonymous arrays. And when you access that stuff you have to dereference everything (using the ugliest syntax Mankind ever conceived).
Go ahead and whine that there is a technical terminology difference between pointers and references, but that doesn't change the fact that they are a terrible language "feature," regardless of the name.
If [companies] outsource to India, don't buy their products anymore
You won't find any products in which outsourcing played no role in production/marketing/etc.. Basically, you just suggested we boycott everything. Good luck leading that revolution, my naive friend.
You are absolutely wrong. Have you coded in all three? Perl makes it easy to do unmaintainable things (and ENCOURAGES it with "implied" scalars). Any language with the philosophy "there is more than one way to do it" is a language asking for most people to do it the wrong way.
Python forces people to do things sanely. Ruby pushes them toward cleaner code. Perl buries you in ropes, all of which could be used to hang yourself.
I'm a developer, not a manager. I have been lobbying for the use of Ruby or Python for all new development (we used to do it all in Perl). The simple reason? Perl is a write-only language. Larry Wall knows this, and that's why he's spent so many years trying to make Perl6 a clone of Ruby.
I realize that with enough time and discipline, Perl code can be written in a more maintainable form. But that's swimming against the current in the busy business world.
Ruby is taking hold, and most of the new apps being developed are in that language. Perl is quickly become "legacy" around here.
[oh yeah, and Perl's terrible object model and use of POINTERS for complex datastructures (FFS!) are pretty embarrassing]
Ah yes, if we make that distinction, we can maintain our faith (or at least the faith we happened to be born to) and begin asking the meaningful questions like "HOW did God keep someone alive inside of a whale for an extended period of time?"
That is where the really useful science gets done.
Perl is the fortran of the very-high-level scripting languages. There is no reason to develop new code in perl. Knowing the language is useful only to maintenance programmers.
Cite my source? I am the primary source. I have a forensic image of such a machine sitting right next to me.
Not everything on the internet originates at some other place on the internet. Somewhere, original sources actually exist, and they have nothing else to cite.
I have seen four such infections, all came through hotmail (we think).
We've been seeing botnets changing desktop background to an image alerting people that they are infected with a virus. Obviously a real spam botnet operator would not alert people like that.
My theory is that some grayhat wrested control of a major botnet, and is shutting it down from the source (and alerting the victims in the process).
There is no connection between atheism and militancy. Those who conflate the two (like the interviewer) are engaged in little more than hate speech.
Perhaps the interviewer was just trying to drive clicks by insulting a large number of people, or perhaps he really does hate atheists; but in any case, someone who tries to convince others of his own religions view should be called "outspoken" or "evangelical*." This use of the word "militant" is very very bad form by Eurogamer.
*I would love to see the one of the talking heads on Fox News go insane when interviewing evangelical atheists who refer to themselves as such.
The tax policy Obama supports would lower taxes for everyone except the richest 1% of Americans. The one-percenters would see a large increase in their tax rate. Therefore, everyone making more than $500k/year has very strong financial incentive to donate as much as they can ($2k) to stop Obama.
Simple. Take their market cap and subtract the cash. So to buy Apple you would be paying $120B for $3B/year in profit.
That means it would take FORTY YEARS OF PROFIT to recoup the $120B you would have to pay to buy the company. That is NOT cheap. Anyone buying Apple at these prices must either expect profits to double in the next few years (and stay high!), or have no idea what they are doing investing ('cept that they like dem dere ipods).
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The apps I write use XMLHttpRequest and change the contents of div elements. This seems supported on Opera Mobile.
It seems Flex 3.0 doesn't work unless you have the latest version of Flash. So not only does it break for certain Linux users, but also for people who don't update their plugins (example: my parents, who NEVER see the little yellow bar that says "click here to install").
AJAX is definitely more widely supported, but for apps which are used internally to my company, I have don't have to worry about supporting oddball systems. If I can get this Flex app I'm working on right now to populate a table from a database when the user clicks a button, and it's not too hard, I really will give flex a go for the next internal app.......
Flash does NOT work with 64bit Firefox on 64bit Linux, at least last time I checked. It doesn't work on some mobile phones, either.
So AJAX done right will be more widely supported, and completely open, but it takes more effort to develop than Flex apps. OK that's a simple tradeoff if you don't mind vendor lock-in.
You've convinced me to look at the Flex "Hello World" example:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/your_first_application/
If it is really very much quicker than traditional AJAX development, I might consider the trade-off worth it.
According to wikipedia, Flex is based on Flash. I would argue that slashdot's comment threshold control should not be loading flash apps, and shouldn't be doing that weird horizontal scroll thing. Simple html radio buttons would provide sufficient UI controls for selecting your viewing threshold. Many complaints people have with Javascript come from people overusing Javascript.
I haven't looked much into Silverlight, but my understanding is that, like flash, it requires you install some proprietary software.
So if your users need to install extra software to make your web apps work (breaking things like searchability in the process) it would seem that acheives the opposite of "it Just Works."
If I am still misunderstanding Flex/Silverlight, please correct me. As a web app developer, I would be interested in tools that hide the complexity of HTML/Javascript, but NOT at the expense of forcing my users to install plugins like Flash.
I'm no opensource zealot, but I just can't see a $700 proprietary app platform like Adobe Flex ever replacing an open standard like HTML as the backbone of the web.
Looking at some flex apps, it seems you can't even use extremely basic features like Ctrl-F to search through the text of the page! Flash has never been good at anything except web video.
It's telling that Adobe's Flex showcase actually runs the opensource Drupal CMS.
The combination of HTML's form controls and Javascript's XMLHttpRequest gives web app designers the power they need to implement 99% of applications as webapps with very little compromise vs. thick-client apps.
Personally, I care very little about the rest of Javascript's abilities. Most often when I see them used, they add nothing useful to the functionality of the applications--just complexity and gee-whiz UI silliness.
Why was I not invited to participate in this study? No matter which test group you are assigned to, you end up getting tail. I happen to be a strong proponent of getting tail.
How did you know I drive a Chevette? Truly the internet is a thing of wonder!
Your pedantry isn't too impressive. The result is the same. In a modern very-high-level language, if you want a non-trivial datastructure, like a hash of arrays, you just declare a hash of arrays. Not so in perl. There you have to use a hash of references to anonymous arrays. And when you access that stuff you have to dereference everything (using the ugliest syntax Mankind ever conceived).
Go ahead and whine that there is a technical terminology difference between pointers and references, but that doesn't change the fact that they are a terrible language "feature," regardless of the name.
Great advice. Now if everyone listens to you and learns to "stand out from the crowd" we are all back in the same crowd.
You won't find any products in which outsourcing played no role in production/marketing/etc.. Basically, you just suggested we boycott everything. Good luck leading that revolution, my naive friend.
You are absolutely wrong. Have you coded in all three? Perl makes it easy to do unmaintainable things (and ENCOURAGES it with "implied" scalars). Any language with the philosophy "there is more than one way to do it" is a language asking for most people to do it the wrong way.
Python forces people to do things sanely. Ruby pushes them toward cleaner code. Perl buries you in ropes, all of which could be used to hang yourself.
I'm a developer, not a manager. I have been lobbying for the use of Ruby or Python for all new development (we used to do it all in Perl). The simple reason? Perl is a write-only language. Larry Wall knows this, and that's why he's spent so many years trying to make Perl6 a clone of Ruby.
I realize that with enough time and discipline, Perl code can be written in a more maintainable form. But that's swimming against the current in the busy business world.
Ruby is taking hold, and most of the new apps being developed are in that language. Perl is quickly become "legacy" around here.
[oh yeah, and Perl's terrible object model and use of POINTERS for complex datastructures (FFS!) are pretty embarrassing]
Obviously the way to rank the accuracy, objectivity, and fairness of a news report is to subject it to an anonymous internet popularity contest.
Wait--I think perhaps I mean the exact opposite of what I just said.
Ah yes, if we make that distinction, we can maintain our faith (or at least the faith we happened to be born to) and begin asking the meaningful questions like "HOW did God keep someone alive inside of a whale for an extended period of time?"
That is where the really useful science gets done.
It appears there is blood in your waste.
Shopping results for colon cancer:
(did you mean inflamatory bowel disease?)
Load balancers actually can cause trouble with protocols which use digital signatures (SSH or TLS) unless they are implemented properly.
Perl is the fortran of the very-high-level scripting languages. There is no reason to develop new code in perl. Knowing the language is useful only to maintenance programmers.
The virus we are seeing does not (to my knowledge) advertise for any particular AV product, nor does it ask for ransom or anything like that.
Cite my source? I am the primary source. I have a forensic image of such a machine sitting right next to me.
Not everything on the internet originates at some other place on the internet. Somewhere, original sources actually exist, and they have nothing else to cite.
I have seen four such infections, all came through hotmail (we think).
We've been seeing botnets changing desktop background to an image alerting people that they are infected with a virus. Obviously a real spam botnet operator would not alert people like that.
My theory is that some grayhat wrested control of a major botnet, and is shutting it down from the source (and alerting the victims in the process).
There is no connection between atheism and militancy. Those who conflate the two (like the interviewer) are engaged in little more than hate speech.
Perhaps the interviewer was just trying to drive clicks by insulting a large number of people, or perhaps he really does hate atheists; but in any case, someone who tries to convince others of his own religions view should be called "outspoken" or "evangelical*." This use of the word "militant" is very very bad form by Eurogamer.
*I would love to see the one of the talking heads on Fox News go insane when interviewing evangelical atheists who refer to themselves as such.
The tax policy Obama supports would lower taxes for everyone except the richest 1% of Americans. The one-percenters would see a large increase in their tax rate. Therefore, everyone making more than $500k/year has very strong financial incentive to donate as much as they can ($2k) to stop Obama.
They should follow the lead from so many other big businesses and jump into the mortgage business.
The market rewards profit. That's all that matters.
Simple. Take their market cap and subtract the cash. So to buy Apple you would be paying $120B for $3B/year in profit.
That means it would take FORTY YEARS OF PROFIT to recoup the $120B you would have to pay to buy the company. That is NOT cheap. Anyone buying Apple at these prices must either expect profits to double in the next few years (and stay high!), or have no idea what they are doing investing ('cept that they like dem dere ipods).