Gnodal Journal

From O’Reilly Network, Extending the Mozilla Editor [Jun. 30, 2000]

“Zen and the art of computer crashes!” … ohh, if life were always so nice!

Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that.

Boxes and Arrows: Views and Forms: Principles of Task Flow for Web Applications Part 1 – Some pleasantly lucid prose here, viz.:
“[B]ecause the client-server architecture of a web application dictates a serial conversation, these types of operations not only require a broader vocabulary; they also require a separate mode.
Although rich-media applications technologies strive to reduce the division between these modes, when it comes to HTML-based applications, the best strategy is to embrace the nature of the medium.”

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Also of interest: ::phpPatterns()

PHP Manual: COM support functions for Windows
Also see Using PHP to read/write to excel or same type of files. [forums.devshed.com]

“dfm2gui is a Perl program that converts Delphi/C++Builder Forms to Win32::GUI templates.” *!OMG!*
See also: Spreadsheet::WriteExcel , Perl and Excel Faq

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Also of note: “FPDF is a PHP class which allows to generate PDF files with straight PHP, that is to say without using the PDFlib library.”

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From BusinessWeek Online, a flashback to 1998: “Inside Netscape“