curl -LO http://www.portaudio.com/archives/pa_stable_v19_20071207.tar.gz
tar xzf pa_stable_v19_20071207.tar.gz
cd portaudios
./configure && make && sudo make install
cd ..
curl -LO http://www.complang.org/ragel/ragel-6.3.tar.gz
tar xzf ragel-6.3.tar.gz
cd ragel-6.3
./configure && make && sudo make install
He wrote it for Hackety Hack, which will be built on Shoes for its next version. Whether or not it's included in Shoes itself or just HH will remain to be seen, but I'd love to see it in the former.
Sounds like this isn't really big news at all ... Or am I too skeptical?
It does seem harder to trust a news source these days for accurate news, but as far as one thing that worked once being news or not: isn't that one definition of what "news" used to be? The discovery of the first _____.
His comments about the CSS Garden are extremely misguided: "But how much of the loveliness is due to CSS and how much is due to photoshop is far from clear."
The whole point is that every page of the garden is the same, HTML-wise. CSS transforms each variation completely from the last.
But that in and of itself doesn't mean anything. The content is static. That makes it much easier to prettify. Look for example at the Orchid example that I linked to:
Look at the headings. They're really beautiful. How do I do that in CSS? I can't. They are images.
To really demonstrate CSS you'd need to take all those style sheets and apply them to a different HTML document and see if they still looked good. No one has done that experiment (and I suspect no one will) but I predict the results would not look nearly as good.
> Look at the headings. They're really beautiful. How do I do that in CSS? I can't. They are images.
But really, the whole point is that they _are_ doing that in CSS. The images are defined in CSS; no "img" tags here. Browsers (and bots) that don't have that CSS support gracefully degrade to indexable text.
The headings are also nothing special. Just the "Zapfino" font pre-rendered. You could use CSS today and get it to work on every computer that has that font installed (every Mac and iPhone, to name a few), or if the browser has more experimental CSS support, you can render any custom font (with an open license) by specifying a path to the font online. But alas, most browsers do not support this, and we developers use sIFR instead.
> To really demonstrate CSS you'd need to take all those style sheets and apply them to a different HTML document and see if they still looked good. No one has done that experiment (and I suspect no one will) but I predict the results would not look nearly as good.
Really? If that's true then either 1) CSS is useless for dynamic content or 2) you have to dynamically generate your CSS to match your dynamic content. Which is it?
I think "they" were the developers, though (not the publisher), and they weren't "complaining" so much as commenting. I think this kind of piracy rate is pretty common with software.
There is cost in overhead, too. Beyond getting the drive:
- Connecting it to the internet so you can access it from anywhere
- Setting up iTunes to stream properly
- Setting up a mechanism that caches recent/popular files locally
- Develop an iPhone app to access the drive
