For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on a Perl module for creating Sparklines* in SVG. The original purpose of the project was a demonstration of working with SVG from the Perl programming language. It was intended to be an example in a talk I was going to give for our local Perl Mongers… Read More »
The comments from Ian and rlb3 have made me think a bit more on what I said last time about Chronistic Coupling. One thing I didn’t make perfectly clear is that I’m not advocating avoiding Chronistic Coupling at all costs. Any real system will require some amount of Chronistic coupling. The key design point is… Read More »
Many programs have a need to store program state to disk at various points. An approach used by many of these programs is to serialize the objects representing the program state directly to disk (or a database). Back in 2004 (XML-Serialized Objects and Coupling), I described a coupling problem caused by automatically serializing objects to… Read More »
I was listening to an older episode of Software Engineering Radio where they interviewed Martin Odersky on Scala (Episode 62). In the interview, Odersky made a comment about closures being the literals of functional programming. This statement struck me as surprising. The more I thought about it, the more interesting and subtle the concept became.… Read More »
My son has talked several times about learning to program, but he’s young enough that the normal programming approaches bore him. I had tried implementations of Logo in the past, without much success. A couple months ago, I was checking the Make magazine blog and stumbled upon an article about a Scrolling Mario game in… Read More »
The company SourceGear makes tools for software developers, mostly in the version control area. The company’s founder is Eric Sink. Based on his blog and book, Sink seems to understand both business and technical issues. In 2007, I saw a reference to their new advertising campaign styled as a comic book. At the time, they… Read More »
This is the last in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the first post, I gave a brief overview of SVG. In the subsequent posts, I refuted each of the major claims that I have seen for the death of SVG. Those claims were: Death by lack… Read More »
This is the next in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the first post, I gave a brief overview of SVG. Each subsequent post takes a claim and refutes it. The Claim SVG is dead because it is not supported by Internet Explorer This argument is possibly… Read More »
This is the next in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the first post, I gave a brief overview of SVG. Each subsequent post takes a claim and refutes it. The Claim SVG is useless because it doesn’t support video or audio. It’s time to go back… Read More »
This is the next in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the first post, I gave a brief overview of SVG. Each subsequent post takes a claim and refutes it. The Claim SVG is useless because it doesn’t support even basic 3D features This claim makes a… Read More »