Bleh…
I was bored today… but I got a new project! And a partner to do it with.
We have to design a new site for Growl. It's not very good yet, but it's in the works. We're having trouble with transparency; we tried using .png but they won't work in MSIE, .gif isn't anti-aliased, and .tif doesn't work in most browsers (but it does in Safari).
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Try to design the site so that you don't actually need to use semi-transparent images - most of the time you can get away with a jpg or a gif with transparent areas only where it overlaps another object. In an ideal world we could use sexy .pngs, but it's usually easier just to fake it :)
That's pretty cool, how'd you land that job?
Anonymous: I asked ;)
I'm just curious, Takumi, but are you personally designing the entire site, or is it a collaborative project. 'Cause you switched number in the middle of your paragraph.
Anonymous #2: Good catch. I'll fix that. But it IS a collaborative effort. Over SubEthaEdit I might add :D
Nice.
Have you ever seen Ruby, particularly Ruby on Rails?
It's much, much better than PHP (i.e. cleaner syntax, lexical closures, and completely object oriented) and it makes it really quick to develop stuff. Sort of like Python, but Rails leans towards web/database applications. Have fun designing the site!
Anonymous #3: I don't think our server supports Ruby. I kind of like PHP; it's close to C. And C is one of the languages where I have the most experience (not much ;) )
btw it's Will.
OS X and Linux both come with Ruby installed. Apache has a mod_ruby. I'd say that PHP's resemblance to the C syntax is a bad thing :) It's like they took the bad parts of the C and Perl syntax and mixed them together. At least C doesn't require you to preface variable with a dollar sign! It just seems like a massive kludge.
$variable is something I hate. It gets really annoying.
Three more things:
1. This is an Apache server.
2. I'm unsure what the system is and if it has Ruby or not.
3. I don't know Ruby and I don't know where to learn Ruby.
I'll stop bugging you now :-)
Ruby can be found here:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
And since you're smart, you might want to have a look at Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
Just check it out. It's very interesting, and a fun intellectual challenge to fully comprehend everything they have to say.
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