November 2004
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A Mason component to fill-in error messages
How often have you seen those sites with a form, and after you miss a field, it pops up a little message in red under the text box indicating what went wrong? I’m guessing a lot, and when writing web applications this can be a pain to code in.
Typically in Perl/PHP, you’d add this by going through your form, adding little bits of code under each and every form element to display the error on...
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XML-RPC interface for Growl
Growl is a rather spiffy little notifier for OS X I’ve started using lately. Currently however, it’s lacking a nice way to send messages over the network. Since a project I’m working on would be even slicker with a way to communicate updates, I quickly tacked a Python XML-RPC Server onto Growl using Growl’s Python bindings.
In the future, Growl will have its own network interface, I’ve heard....