DeRailed January: Plugins and ZiYa

01.20.07


What a way to spend a Friday night in Lodo: talking about nerd stuff at the Tattered Cover! This month's meeting was bumped to Friday night thanks to all of the snow storms in December and earlier this month. I thoroughly expected there to be only a handful in the audience, but I was pleasantly surprised--I think there are probably about 20 people here.

I gave my standard plugins talk for the first half of the meeting. Thanks to Rails 1.2 being released just yesterday, I realized too late that I'll probably have to re-work some pieces of the talk. Oh well. At least I won a book!

Fernand is now giving a talk on a plugin that he and Delynn have been working on, called ZiYa. Aside from producing really sexy flash charts and graphs, it looks like a really simple (and useful) API. If you need to produce some beautiful, interactive charts, then you should definitely check it out!

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tcl/tk + ajax = aejaks

01.07.07


At the November FRUUG meeting, my friend Tom Poindexter mentioned to me that he was working on a Tcl/Tk web programming package based on Echo2. The idea was to be able to write Tcl/Tk code that would generate an ajax-ified web UI. As a Tcl/Tk fan of many years (the Brent Welch book was my first programming book purchase ever), I was very interested.

This week Tom wrote to let me know that his library, called Aejaks is now ready to go. Check out some of the screenshots here. I guess it even comes with an interactive console so you can try out your Tk skillz in real-time. Very cool Tom!

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