Generic Update
November 18th, 2006
Part-the-first
My job if FINE. Even if I am creating SPAM. Not that I want to create spam, and not that it is totally useless spam (It’s literally military grade, and yes, there is a correct way to interpret that), but that it is such quantities that the artist aparently has become brain-dead. Shadows where no shadows can or should be. Inconsistence faked focal blur off of stock photos (blurry inspired-looking prople staring off in to space, over a sharp background).
And a favorite… “can you make this font more blue?”
*shudder*
The best part of the job is ripping out <font> tags out of code and reformatting pages in CSS.
Oh well, hopefully the new hire can get HTML Email rules down quickly so I can do something that feels more productive.
Part-the-second
My project for a flash version of TFHCC is going nowhere at this point. I can not get Adobe Flex 2 to handle an xml feed like I want it to. It’s because of a lack of documentation, I hope - or inconsistency. There is no one place to go and get information on XML processing - with mxml, or ActionScript 3 (which is subtlety different in flex by what I read, WHICH IS BAD) - if may be spread across several websites and PDF documents, but I can’t seem to get the right combination of load, store, and process.
Perhaps all the books coming out next year will help.
Part-the-third
James is talking about making an XML database suitable for student projects. He works a lot with SQL, and believes that it could be a lot simpler. ANd have looping built in.
My first reaction was, “well, then they need to actually learn SQL.” I saw no reason for moving XML further up in the process.
Then I thought of the results of a query being received in XML. If the query was complex enough, you could have a straight database->xslt->xhtml website. That would be awesome - minimal jsp, php or asp to mess with.
ANd if the queries are Xpath based….woah.
-Sud.
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