> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Keith Lofstrom wrote: ... > >Many PLUG members seem to spend most of their time in GUI-land. > >Which is good, if all the visual metaphors are consistent and the > >right tools are available. But it is much harder to automate > >small hacks that way - you become dependent on others who are > >skilled with gtk or qt and c++, who spend days to months polishing > >their creations with check boxes and options. ...
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 02:35:41PM -0700, Carlos Konstanski wrote: > I do both. But my GUI hacks are generally webapps. This is because I > am a web developer, and I have a convenient web container for such > occasions. I am interested in playing around with ncurses at some > point. Being a product of the 80s, I have an affinity for plain text > output. Good reminder! Actually, what little "GUI" stuff I've written has also been webapps, simple respond-to-webform stuff for my websites. Which leads to a question: is there an easy way to run some subset of webscripts locally on a machine, without the complexities of apache? Ideally, it would consist of some programs on the machine that respond to html requests on special ports by running small scripts in /usr/local/web (for example), wrapping those scripts with enough html stuff to talk to the browser. The browser might have a plugin so that when it sees a request for a naked word "URL" it tries the program hanging on the local port before it looks on the rest of the web. As an example, I could type "bacon" into firefox, and it would go to port 8088 (say) and ask the program watching the port to look for /usr/local/web/bacon, wrap it as needed, and run it. If there is no /usr/local/web/bacon or ~/web/bacon, firefox does its usual thing with barewords, which in my setup is do a google search for the word bacon. That would allow me to run local scripts, perhaps with some graphic content, via the local browser. Then I could deploy the same or similar scripts through apache on a real website. Democratized small webapps? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
