Coders Edge

Changes

The 'look' of my main site has morphed

OK, I've got some new things here at my site. The most obvious is that now I have a 'landing' page. That way when someone gets to my site they don't have to get the whole thing unless they actually want it. Instead they get an animated angle spin gauge that is thinner than the one that I use on my main page.

I would like to have the entities created, fully funtional, when they are served up. That is one way to do it. That way the algorithms stay in house. But who cares, really? HTML was designed to be an open book so that all the cleverness could be shared. XML is really the same thing (they really are the same thing: markup). Any seasoned software old-school automation guru will tell you (how do you find someone like that ? Oh, right, here I am) that more efficient methods work better and lower bandwidth and thus preserve the system for better use. IE: you don't store 20,000 zeros, but compress it. That saves bandwidth in the transfer

But . . . and that always exists, we are thinking in the past, in one sense, by 'conserving' bandwidth. Only if there is a high demand for your items from your item-shop does it matter to conserve the bandwidth. So if you are only being spidered by IP's from Gooogle or BIINNG and the occasional person who stumbles upon your pages, what does it matter if you have too much bandwidth?

Loading times! And so a good way to go is to load things a little bit at a time, as needed. I came up with some methods for doing that which mostly involved Ajax and JavaScript. Well, of course, when one encounters Jquerry, translating to that idiom is easy enough to do, too. So it might be a little bit of both if you happen to peruse my code (the code that I 'give away' with my pages. Oh, I'm not giving it away but letting you enjoy it so you can see the animations that have sprinkled throughout my pages.

Complex Content Entities

The joy of markup is that anyone can get at the code and do with it as they please. It really is in the tradition of anonymous artisan. That was the old way that the medevils did it, both in India and Europe: there was anonymity and the glory and honor of the craft goes to the crafter of us, and we get none of it but can only experience it in relationship to how we feel about our Maker. If we feel nothing for our Maker? We don't believe in that? I can't speak to that because I never didn't feel great awe in respect to our Maker.

But now adays we have the mega-corp technology vaccuums who (companies who) don't really invent it so much as market it very very well. How do you get paid for anonymous code? When it's all so easy to do for anyone who actually takes it seriously? So easy to make new effects, have new things going on? How do you own the revenue stream that comes from such golden code?

If you're one of the super-dupers, who is so good at being in charge, born into your wahtever and you think you rule some 'space' in the 'market' (you would thus be a monopolist or an ologarch, or maybe just a drug-addled middle manager in the corruptocracy when you are blue, and drunk with fear and loathing, realizing the very many frauds of this world. Get over it. Keep doing.

I've let these pages evolve. There are very many 'idioms' that I had to throw away. They were so clever as to not be useful. And there are schemes of content that I developed which I have somewhere in my web-skill tool-box (of copious code, crafted by myself) : methods that though there are good, and work well, and conserve bandwidth, they just don't get used. I leave them by the wayside.

So there they are by the wayside. And as far as the full featured 'whatever it is', call it a web service: it needs to be thin and low bandwidth because if it is any good it will be copied and thus be used millions and billions of times, and so it does matter if it's useful that it doesn't have a memory leak or some such. It's just too easy to do this.

I've reached a new place in my design where the clarity of what it needs to be seems even more obvious that it was in the past. I've gotten farther in my concepts and I can imagine a lot of effort that I could do. But will I take the time? Have a plan for the pages? A master plan?

If I knew The Master's plan for me than I could have the master plan. However life has many opportunities other than coding for pages.

Once the browsers have the response of video games, then why not push on with it? No matter what one designes for the 'paradigm' shifters will always try and obsolete whatever it is that has been done before. That keeps everyone in sales and marketting working. And we want them to.

And so I invision small tasks. Small things get improved. Sometimes I have an 'ah-ha' moment.

Well, if I don't get meaning ful employment there is nothing stopping me from releasing a blogging platform except for the fact that the market is already saturated with them. In the meantime the biggest problem with loading multiple complex content entities, that originate from different files, is that there is a need for the scripting to have the markup be unique: so addressing the various entities is the issues. If we load it as inline html if we strip the part of interest out of a body element, however we get our entity: well we need to then initialize it and tell our sequencer about it.

When there are those who have no problem with releaseing complex and heavy machinery to be 'atonomous', without concern for the safty of the public like eveyrone else has to do. Sequencing is a powerful tool. And a sequencer that can be controlled remotely, without any issues with reliability, well, that could be used for . . .

why worry?

Aug 17, 2015

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