The Wirthians and Oberonistas. Run, no, sprint and get the PDF version of Project Oberon. Hey, I know it's not exactly state-of-the-art anymore and some aspects of the Oberon system were simply silly (especially its reasoning for non-overlapping windows in the windowing system), but nevertheless the book is absolutely worth reading. And the presented system still has a lot of charm, even if it has largely disappeared into obscurity.
Sandvox - the new GUI editor for websites, which was just introduced as a beta by Karelia - is really nice in concept. It offers an overall view of the website - and that is on the components of the website. Nicely structured, so that you can easily make changes to pages. The whole thing is also really easy to use - with nice wizards and good integration with iLife. Publishing is not only to .Mac, like with iWeb, but for example via SFTP to a normal server.
And Sandvox sucks hamsters through straws.
Sorry, but you can't put it any nicer. The thing is a complete and total catastrophe in the present second beta. I didn't give it many tasks - I didn't get that far. I created a homepage, a page with a single image, and a photo album. None of that is particularly difficult. The photo album was given 39 images - directly taken from iPhoto. That's not complicated, one would think.
But the software just sucks up 1.5 GB of memory because of these images and reduces a Mac Mini to a crawling snail. With every click in the navigation in the software, you wait for 10 or 15 minutes until the selected page appears. The created file with the site is by the way only 280 KB in size - why it then occupies so much memory, I don't even want to know ...
Additionally, it does offer nice publishing to servers - with a comfortable wizard for setup and checking. But this stupid wizard provides no meaningful information during the check and already gets a timeout with a simple SFTP connection - and that is on a server where I am already logged in via SSH in a terminal window in parallel.
I saved myself the trouble of realizing publishing in any other way (e.g. in a local directory and then subsequent copying to the server) in view of the horrendous memory and CPU load. That's why there are also no statements about the generated HTML.
Sorry, I understand that Karelia wanted to get the beta out quickly - especially in view of the iWeb announcement. But then maybe you should write that the software is completely unusable on a Mac Mini. Not even Aperture is such a resource hog ...
Even though the FDP is in opposition - when it comes to copyrights they are just as supportive of the music industry as the current government:
Hans-Joachim Otto, media expert of the FDP parliamentary group, sees in a cultural flat rate a "disregard for copyright". "Whoever wants to effectively legalize the mass production of illegal copies on the Internet through a lump sum payment has not understood the principles of European copyright and disregards the necessity of effective protection of creative achievements," reads a statement from the FDP parliamentary group. The FDP supports all efforts that serve to further strengthen copyright in the digital context and to promote respect for intellectual property.
The position of the FDP as an alleged freedom party is also quite logical: rather criminalize all users, patronize and nag them, than force an industry that is managed to ruin to deal with realities. For the FDP, freedom is only the freedom of companies, not of citizens.
Isn't it great how the church beautifully helps to dispose of annoying works councils? Really fascinating method. After all, churches have nothing in common with a democratic society. And in the end, they are even democracy-hostile in their structure. I find the approach of the hospital management particularly exciting:
A week later, the manager explained to the staff that the hospital was now evangelical. The released works council members were instructed to return to their old workplaces. When Altenschmidt and Tobias Michel, who was also released, did not comply, a warning followed. Last Friday, the locks of the works council office were changed. However, the files of the employees' representatives, which contained partly confidential information, could be brought to safety beforehand, according to Altenschmidt.
Certainly, the church itself will then present the whole thing again in a great way, because after all, one has gained a bit more influence - no matter how absurd the designation as "church carrier" is. After all, most of the money still comes from public funds. You can also see this nicely in Münster, where far too many schools and kindergartens have an allegedly church carrier - but the financial main burden still lies with the city.
For me, the church with this absurd church law - according to which employees and especially also employee representatives must be in the church and disputes between employee representation and management can only be represented before the equally absurd church jurisdiction - is simply unconstitutional.
What does our Basic Law, Article 3, Paragraph 3, say?
No one may be disadvantaged or favored because of their gender, their descent, their race, their language, their homeland and origin, their beliefs, their religious or political views. No one may be disadvantaged because of their disability.
Apparently, this does not apply to churches. And for hospital managers who quickly give the hospital to the church just to get rid of the works council.
Well, of course, I couldn't leave it alone, so I struggled with the extremely slow part and replaced the 39-image album with a 6-image album. Still slow, but at least tolerable enough that I managed to publish locally and then manually transfer the files.
This is my awesome homepage
What stands out: the HTML code is actually quite usable. Without a stylesheet, the necessary skips over the navigation and the sidebar are included, and more tags than just DIVs are actually used. However, it also becomes apparent that there are extremely many DIVs with many classes inside - in principle, almost everything is divided. There aren't many P-tags and other logical structures (okay, I haven't written much text, but still, I would at least expect individual paragraphs). It looks better than the HTML from iWeb.
A number of bugs have also been noticed - but it is a beta after all, I don't see that as critically as the exorbitant memory usage. By the way, I deliberately only took one of the predefined stylesheets and didn't change much. I also created a movie page, but somehow the most important thing seems to be missing - the embedding of the movie. In any case, it offered my movie from iMovie but did not adopt it. Well, at least you are spared my silly babbling.