Thursday, July 19 2001

Matt Sergeant : "It was then I thought about the stuff

Damian and Marcel have been working on. Attribute::Handlers stuff. Wouldn't it be great if we could do:

sub foo : WebService { }

And have foo automatically become a web service? Yeah, I thought so too :-) So I've written Attribute::WebService. I'll stick it on CPAN this week, though it's pretty raw right now. It also hacks into the internals of SOAP::Lite, because the public API wasn't complete enough. It also by default implements it's own httpd using HTTP::Daemon, which is probably a pretty inefficient way to do things. However I *think* I've made it overridable so that you could implement Attribute::WebService::Apache and have it work via mod_perl." You'll have to scroll down for this because I can't figure out how use.perl/slash2 does permalinks and I have better things to waste my time on...

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Dan Clowes : "The saying 'You can't judge a book by its cover' is one of the most untrue phrases ever uttered.

You can absolutely judge people by the way they choose to present themselves, and although you can't be completely accurate in your judgment, you can discern lots of information. And we all do, whether we're conscious of it or not. My tendency to deconstruct people with just one look is a defense mechanism, and although I don't really need one at this point in my life, it's not easy to shake the things you grew up with. ... I recently went through my work to put some things together for an art show, and I was struck by how frequently I've drawn the image of the back of a guy's head walking through a city. I've drawn it over and over again, and I can't think of another artist who's drawn that image. I guess I draw the back of the head because it's more anonymous, nonconfrontational and fearful."

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OpenFlow

"is a workflow engine created with python and Zope. With OpenFlow, you can define a map of the activities to be performed, conditional paths and parallel activities. Activities can be defined using every Zope object, and conditions can be definined using every data visible in a Zope object."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is carom

| source : web1913 | Carom \Car"om\, n. [Prob. corrupted fr. F. carumboler to carom, carambolage a carom, carambole the red ball in billiards.] (Billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called {cannon}. | source : web1913 | Carom \Car"om\, v. i. (Billiards) To make a carom. | source : wn | carom n 1: a glancing rebound [syn: {ricochet}] 2: a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other [syn: {cannon}] v 1: rebound after hitting: "The car caromed off several lampposts" [syn: {glance}] 2: make a carom, in billiards

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