I have done some ncurses stuff lately and for whoever is interested in writing complicated layouts i advice to check this out: STFL. Hear this.

You look at the web today and you see a great amount of HTML and CSS splattered all over the place. We have tutorials and hacks to make things look nice cross-browser, but no matter what you do it's always really hard to create nice compatible things in a scalable way. Many people like web-frontend development compared to desktop gui because of the very fact that you can pretty much go insane and create whatever you want without being stuck with toolkits and widgets.

In an environment where your site has to look consistent, buttons, toolbars, popup boxes, you will be working on creating that HTML/CSS snippet of code and then use it wherever you need. I recently did some studies on how the best desktop gui frameworks out there worked (Cocoa ex), and I've been trying to thinker a nice way to port that same scalable system to the web.

SVG isn't currently supported by all browsers, so that was out of my list, then I thought about "absolutely positioned divs" which eventually came to be the right choice. Javascript speaks to the DOM, but with this technique we never need to talk to it, we only need to write to it - manipulating top-left-width-height of each element will give you a beautiful structure of nested divs in a way that you wont need to worry about HTML/CSS anymore! Considering how nicely javascript is already connected to the DOM it wont be hard creating your own framework to make Panels, Buttons etc..(hint - inherit the DOMDivElement).

Of course the people at 280slides.com and qooxdoo have been doing it for a while, but I really cant see many other folks doing it.

Oggi come oggi mi ritrovo in California, precisamente El dorado hills - vicino a Sacramento. Dopo un'infanzia che mi ha portato artisti come The Deftones e Papa Roach (uniche 2 band che mi vengono in mente, data la mia banale scelta artistica nei miei anni di liceo), mi viene naturale oggi parlarne, visto appunto che ho la possibilita` di avventurarmi nel posto dove questi artisti sono nati - la california.
Da un anno ormai mi sto illuminando da questo genere di musica chiamato comunemente "idm" - intelligent dance music - che ragruppa artisti dal calibro di Aphex Tiwn, Autechre etc..
Esistono molti punti di riferimento sul web per cercare nuova musica ed entrare in questa nuova era di "musica indipendente", ad esempio last.fm e` sicuramente in cima alla mia lista. Insomma un bel fanculo al rock e tutto il resto ecco a voi una bella lista di artisti che mi hanno felicemente accontentato quest'ultimo anno.

1- The Flashbulb
Dal 99 che cambia stile e nome fino ad oggi che, grazie a dio, ha deciso di andare in giro per il mondo con l'acronimo ufficiale. In particolare l'album "Fly!" (rarissimo) e "Resent And The April Sunshine Shed" sono dei "must have".
2- Autechre
Questo gruppo inglese, che a dovere ha il tag "idm" taggato 10mila volte, e` uno dei pezzi grossi, conosciutissimi e pagatissimi.
3- Saltillo
L'album "Ganglion" e` una cosa meravigliosa, non ho parole.
4- random_monkey
Ecco l'indipendenza di cui vi parlavo. Non influenzato da soldi o altre cazzate.

That area is right now pretty much all gone on the wheel.

How's ajax suppose to be delivered, in a moment where I probably don't want to ramble about javascript, but it's there and a lot of people/companies use it. Moreover (what word is this) it is the language of the web, and as much as its hated, lot of good things are coming in the near future. My job is fun, an entire site which I believe has more Javascript code than server code, a site that given that has grown to have a frontend that is a mess, a site that is completely amazingly explosevely frontend driven, where freaking windows fly around and eat your CPU!
Once this thing is launched I basically need to organize the JS code and create some structure inside this soul. Here's a snippet of Javascript code that i've come to create to help me understand how I need to start building things: (code got delete by rafb.net, fn-js has some good shit). It's pretty fun to wander in this world of prototype inheritance and classes that have no class operator, and basically try and understand every little piece of it.

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Welcome

So basically the government in italy just dropped, new elections about to come. Hopefully the situtation there will become better with the new bright open minded professionals of my generation flourishing. Also I'm going there the 26th of Feb. Next up is some site idea i had in mind for a while, I'm kind of working hard on it and this thing is certainly pushing me to believe more in my shit.

I've fallen in this hole of workaholic environment, which is totally not me. Losing the grip of real things, over more materialistic things. Going back for christmas to my family to see people that i love but still judge by the way they make money over ignorable jobs, and listen to them talk about how they "try and keep their kids away from drugs because they live in a very rich neihbourhood" said by my own aunt. Sometimes i think that everyone is surrounded by a bubble of grief, trapt in a world of ignorance where the only thing that matters is to impress me or someone else, but we really dont give a shit.

And now its like 3 am and I'm already thinking of the job, because the job gets you money, gives you all those fucking goodies you need to make your life more comfortable, because you need the security. I swear to god I'm 1 step close to blow this freaking security. The more i hear the voice in my head saying that "I really dont want to do shit tomorrow, all i want is a cup of coffee a fucking cigarette and I'm good for the day", the more i strive towards the idea that it makes sense. Ive been doing this shit for what, 2 years lived in america now, i've proved my point, making more money than all my friends back in italy combined, learned so much its sick, met nice people, and I'm fucking happy, not satisfied. Whats next, go for more grief? Kill my last brain cell to a fucking coma dream thing?
I'm probably gonna pass, but thanks.

I want to be a lion in the wild, an eagle in the sky, where nothing matters.

I've opened up a code.google.com page for wephp.