Opinionated SOB By Night, Mild Mannered Programmer By Day!

[elfs]

In case anyone's ever been curious about what I do for a day job, I write application servers for embedded Internet appliances. My tools of choice are Webware for Python and Ext-JS, although I've used PHP, Ruby, and Scriptaculous as well in my time. My target audience is primarily javascript-using and post-Internet Explorer 5.5, and I do get to dictate that, so a lot of what I write will eventually be rather advanced and will leave older browsers far behind. I am not usually Section 508 compatible in my day job. I do a lot of CSS and Javascript.

I've been slowly posting a series of articles on Webware and a Pythonesque alternative to templating languages over on my developer's blog. If you're at all interested in that kind of thing, take a look.

Comments

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't know you worked for Isi. We use a heap of your stuff. I spent a week messing with it recently.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Hopefully in a good way. I'm always looking for feedback with the UI.

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

I actually didn't touch the UI; I was doing some (rather computationally expensive) diagnostic work on our OneBigFS, the details of which I won't go into here.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[cadetstar.livejournal.com]

For what I do, Rails is the easiest solution for me...fairly easy to learn and a couple of nice plugins to automate specific frameworks (a login system and file upload is what I use at the moment).

I've had to teach myself a bit of CSS to do one of the utilities I programmed in order to properly display the text. And, yeah, I tend to dislike IE for that very reason. I use Firefox whenever possible, personally, so that's what I program to. And after seeing IE epic-fail the Acid Test...yeah...

-Michael

[tamino.livejournal.com]

I get the feeling the "next part" is going to involve the three-argument form of type(), and globals(). Good stuff. :-)

BTW, your blogging software is messing with your quotation marks. It changed two single quotes into a double quote, and it's trying to be "smart" about changing some single quotes into backquotes. Good for English; not so good for Python.