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Building TyNETv5 Pt. 12 - A First Example
2013.08.05 12:10:24As promised, I will illustrate how to make a very basic and simple module in Radiance as it is at the moment. This might still get simplified or changed by a lot as development goes on, but I think it is in a pretty good shape as it stands now. What we'll be building here is a rather standard voting application.
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Building TyNETv5 Pt. 7 - lQuery and lQuery-Doc Release
2013.06.24 21:58:06Oh gods, I'm way too tired to be doing this at the moment, but here we go anyway. I finally wrapped all things I could think of up to release lQuery and lQuery-Doc. As I predicted, I was well able to finish lQuery-Doc within time and it was a great feeling of success when I finished it. But, then I had to go on to do a whole bunch of other stuff, which is why the release is so late rather than some time during the day.
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Building TyNETv5 Pt. 6 - Intermission
2013.06.23 20:28:45As I was preparing lQuery for release today I noticed that I still needed a couple of other things before I was ready. One of those things was that my base syntax macro was actually not working properly (variables weren't being handled right), so I had to spend quite some time rebuilding and debugging that. Then I realized that I wanted to have a proper documentation of all the functions ready for release. Since I'm lazy and a programmer I thought I'd use lQuery to write a library that automatically generates HTML documentation files for a given package. This turned out to be a tad more complicated than I initially expected, so I couldn't finish it today. And that's basically why lQuery is delayed, oh no!
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Building TyNETv5 Pt. 5 - Caramel Isn't My Flavour
2013.06.18 17:57:27So last week I was in Tokyo, which means not much was going on at all. Or rather, so I had planned, but something amazing happened in the meantime. One evening I sat down to take a proper look at Caramel, the library I had intended to use for HTML manipulation/generation. I didn't like it. So then I thought back to what I really wanted. I wanted to have jQuery, but in Lisp. Not thinking too much about it, I opened emacs and wrote a small prototype function that would allow me jQuery like syntax. After about half an hour of twiddling around, I had a (wonky) first solution and it was brilliant.