gnat's Journalgnat's use Perl JournalGeek Nest- April 11, 2004 So I finally got set up in the basement as a quasi-office slash geek boy love pad. Desk with scanner and bubble-jet printer, second monitor (yummy flat-screen HP), external keyboard, Playstation and TV in the corner, PC waiting for a hard drive so William can play educational games instead of Oddworld. Not set up is my Commodore 64 (William prefers MAME--faster loading!). I need to find a USB mouse, some external speakers, and buy an espresso machine from the New Zealand version of eBay to...http://use.perl.org/~gnat/journal/18287?from=rss Photoshop Love-InLovin'- April 11, 2004 I don't shill for O'Reilly books in my blog, so be impressed that I'm sending out a major thumbs-up to Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One . I was initially quite nervous about the format--too many colours for a serious book! Who was this guy trying to be funny But it's not painful, it's really useful, and it has an amazing index that lets you randomly access what at first seems like a sequential read of a book. I picked up some great things (levels tweaking, using the measure tool and...http://use.perl.org/~gnat/journal/18278?from=rss Javascript- April 6, 2004 After years of shying away from browser nightmares and the stigma of scrolling popup nonsense, I'm finally getting into DHTML. I love things like the ability to resort tables without reloading the page, preventing users from double-clicking on submit buttons, and so on. Lovely! --Nathttp://use.perl.org/~gnat/journal/18212?from=rss User Interface Metaphors- April 4, 2004 Notes on a paper by a professor of mine: orientational metaphors rely on updown or leftright. E.g., wizards where "next" is always on the right, and "back" on the left, and scrollbars where "more" is up. ontological metaphors treat things in the computer as objects or substances, but not specific objects or substances. Files have sizes, errors "prevent" the system from doing something. structural metaphors treat the computer concepts as real objects. E.g., filesystem as filing cabinet...http://use.perl.org/~gnat/journal/18193?from=rss |