MOTM

>>>>
As always, report any HTML page issues. I just typed in 24 new 
pages. Who would ever WANT to be a 'web designer'. GROAN.
<<<<

Ya know Paul, you should join the 21st century. Typing HTML by hand 
is SO 90's. You should be typing XML (MUCH simpler and less error 
prone), and transforming each page using an XSLT stylesheet that 
only had to be written once, no matter how many pages of modules you 
add (that's my day job).

Moe

:> Ya know Paul, you should join the 21st century. Typing HTML by hand
:> is SO 90's


Cold Fusion and SQL Server seems to do the job pretty good for
me.....uhhh...I still hand code most everything though. It's the only way I
can get it formatted exactly the way I want.

Boy, are we off topic now or what?


So, when can we see and hear those 500 modules, huh?


Les

>
> Cold Fusion and SQL Server seems to do the job pretty good for
> me.....uhhh...I still hand code most everything though. It's the only way I
> can get it formatted exactly the way I want.
>

I don't disagree. But luckily, I don't have to do it very often. Now, I'm beating MS Word over
the head with a brick (updating the online catalog).

500 Series are still months away. I have over *250* modules in the backlog now. These are slated
for NAMM, and not all of them. Got to have something for next year, right?

Paul S.

FW: [motm] RE: web designerYes,  but the purist will note that creating the
binary file by manually entering the data as simply "1s" or "0s" is the only
way to go.  The first web designers worked for AT&T and produced the entire
web in paper form.  All design was done on yellow paper with only 1 bit
resolution - black on, or black off.  Of course, these early web designers
were not without controversary.  The "yellow pages," as these early web
designs were commonly called, soon baloonned into 2 bits of resolution to
accomodate the addition of red script in the code.  To handle the stress of
the additional coding, an old Karate instructor was hired who illustrated
the new technique with artfull right hand strokes for "black on, black off,"
and left hand motions for "red-on, red off."  Not only did the new technique
greatly increase early web designers understading of the 2-bit designs, but
all of them by default became proficient in self defense.  Few people know
that this is how "nerds" became elevated to the status of "geek" and
invented computers to get back at all the "jocks" that would never be able
to understand them.

Larry Hendry
my first personal computer had a tape drive and 16K of memory

----- Original Message -----
From: Tkacs, Ken
I'm still one of those old curmudgeons that code everything in Notepad. I
just wrote a massive SQL Server-backed web application without touching
InterDev or anything like it. There isn't one letter in that code that I
didn't put there intentionally. Drag & drop tools are for the young & lazy.
<b,bg>


-----Original Message-----
>>>>>>
Ya know Paul, you should join the 21st century. Typing HTML by hand
is SO 90's. You should be typing XML (MUCH simpler and less error
prone), and transforming each page using an XSLT stylesheet that
only had to be written once, no matter how many pages of modules you
add (that's my day job).

Larry, please take your ritalin now.

Moe

>>>>
Yes, but the purist will note that creating the
binary file by manually entering the data as simply "1s" or "0s" is 
the only way to go. 
<<<<

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, J. Larry Hendry wrote:

> FW: [motm] RE: web designerYes, but the purist will note that creating
> the binary file by manually entering the data as simply "1s" or "0s" is
> the only way to go.

  My old circa 1973 Intellec 8i (Intel microcomputer that used the 8008
CPU and 12K of *the* crappiest dynamic RAM ever made) would be ideal
for this.  Binary switches all over the beast.  Made back when Intel was
some pipsqueak company and Burroughs & IBM owned the computer world.

Crow
/**/

>On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, J. Larry Hendry wrote:
>
>> FW: [motm] RE: web designerYes, but the purist will note that creating
>> the binary file by manually entering the data as simply "1s" or "0s" is
>> the only way to go.
>
>  My old circa 1973 Intellec 8i (Intel microcomputer that used the 8008
>CPU and 12K of *the* crappiest dynamic RAM ever made) would be ideal
>for this.  Binary switches all over the beast.  Made back when Intel was
>some pipsqueak company and Burroughs & IBM owned the computer world.

Luxury.

I have a friend who was writing operating systems at Sperry back in the
Sixties. Remember drum memory? Remember biquinary? The stories this guy can
tell...


BTW, Ritalin doesn't work for me.
-- 

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

"If I can't be God I don't want to play"--Aleister Crowley