http://tobias.klpstn.com demystify software engineering Mon, 26 May 2008 20:41:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There will be two great meetups during the Linuxtag in Berlin next weekend. One is the first get-together of the django-de community and the other will be the european dojo meeting. The german django people will meet on friday, 30.05.2008, 17:00 (of course german time) at the main entrance of ... http://tobias.klpstn.com/2008/05/26/first-german-django-european-dojo-meeting/ A range slider landed in dojo today and at the same time this is my first dojo contribution :-). This highly motivates myself to step deeper into dojo. The dojox.form.RangeSlider extends the actual dijit.form.Slider component using two instead of one slider handle. An advantage of this approach is, that the ... http://tobias.klpstn.com/2008/05/19/range-slider-with-dojo/ dojo.require("dojox.gfx.geo.Star"); dojo.require("dojox.widget.RatingGfx"); Now I've finished this promised extended rating widget, Wolfram started. This example should demonstrate a case, where geometric forms can be combined with other widgets and how simple it is to achieve a widget using vector graphics. dojox.gfx was a great help, because it prints the appropriate vector format for ... http://tobias.klpstn.com/2008/02/15/dojo-rating-engine-with-dojogfx/ If you ever wanted to create custom images that are all masked by a surrounding frame, here is a solution using python (using PIL instead of a system call running ImageMagick). This example illustrates, how you use png-transparency. I'm using this within django for creating special thumbnails of uploaded video ... http://tobias.klpstn.com/2008/02/10/simple-image-masking-with-pil/ dojo.require("dojox.gfx.geo.Star"); The whole idea emerged from Wolfram's new dojo widget. He created a rating widget, where he uses stars for setting a vote. Because it is using images for each star, you are sticked to the size of your images and also how the images are designed. So I've started to ... http://tobias.klpstn.com/2008/02/07/using-dojo-for-creating-geometric-forms/ I'm planning to start my own blog since about 3 years. Now I've found the time to do so and I hope it will soon be filled with several helping issues concerning software engineering. At the moment I'm concentrating on python and javascript development, using the server framework django and ... http://tobias.klpstn.com/2008/02/06/startup/