Maui/UWP/TypeScript as the "new shining city" ... a meditation
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published under the CPOPL (CodeProject Open Poetic License) with "the city" being WinForms, WPF, ASP ? and, the ghosts of metro/modern silverlight, etc. ? in the time of naked baby EcmaScript/JavaScript with no jQuery, or Frameworks ?
the city: the center of a crumbling empire
long past the centuries it ruled the world,
but, still a beehive of commerce and trade
the city: new layers, over layers of ruins
over forgotten foundations; flimsy bridges,
broken shrines, mobs of homeless wanderers
now, destiny decides to build a new future,
to abandon the old city, give flesh to the
new vision, that will resurrect the empire
the need for complex faciliites in the old
city, for roots to keep commerce and trade
flowing: the new vision hit history's wall
bedrock had to be breached: hard, as usual;
grandiose idealism devoured time, as usual
it takes a fossil with an antiquated skill set to write this ? Viva TypeScript ! cheers, bill "meditation" ... in poetic sonnet form, with the (self imposed) constraint that each line must have the same number of characters ... with the exception of one additional punctuation mark at the end of any line
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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published under the CPOPL (CodeProject Open Poetic License) with "the city" being WinForms, WPF, ASP ? and, the ghosts of metro/modern silverlight, etc. ? in the time of naked baby EcmaScript/JavaScript with no jQuery, or Frameworks ?
the city: the center of a crumbling empire
long past the centuries it ruled the world,
but, still a beehive of commerce and trade
the city: new layers, over layers of ruins
over forgotten foundations; flimsy bridges,
broken shrines, mobs of homeless wanderers
now, destiny decides to build a new future,
to abandon the old city, give flesh to the
new vision, that will resurrect the empire
the need for complex faciliites in the old
city, for roots to keep commerce and trade
flowing: the new vision hit history's wall
bedrock had to be breached: hard, as usual;
grandiose idealism devoured time, as usual
it takes a fossil with an antiquated skill set to write this ? Viva TypeScript ! cheers, bill "meditation" ... in poetic sonnet form, with the (self imposed) constraint that each line must have the same number of characters ... with the exception of one additional punctuation mark at the end of any line
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
Ah Maui, bargepool would I touch it not with. For desktop dev, Uno or Avalon should be your guide.
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Ah Maui, bargepool would I touch it not with. For desktop dev, Uno or Avalon should be your guide.
as always, i pay sober (not poetic) attention to your words, Pete. thanks, bill p.s. i am looking around like the proverbial "one-eyed cat looking in a seafood store," for a new development reality, but, i am addicted to C#, and allergic to XAML: i want to see beautiful controls/widgets, and drag-drop them onto ... something, then use the old bog standard methods, events. maybe i am too old to change horses.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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published under the CPOPL (CodeProject Open Poetic License) with "the city" being WinForms, WPF, ASP ? and, the ghosts of metro/modern silverlight, etc. ? in the time of naked baby EcmaScript/JavaScript with no jQuery, or Frameworks ?
the city: the center of a crumbling empire
long past the centuries it ruled the world,
but, still a beehive of commerce and trade
the city: new layers, over layers of ruins
over forgotten foundations; flimsy bridges,
broken shrines, mobs of homeless wanderers
now, destiny decides to build a new future,
to abandon the old city, give flesh to the
new vision, that will resurrect the empire
the need for complex faciliites in the old
city, for roots to keep commerce and trade
flowing: the new vision hit history's wall
bedrock had to be breached: hard, as usual;
grandiose idealism devoured time, as usual
it takes a fossil with an antiquated skill set to write this ? Viva TypeScript ! cheers, bill "meditation" ... in poetic sonnet form, with the (self imposed) constraint that each line must have the same number of characters ... with the exception of one additional punctuation mark at the end of any line
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
Some obligatory references: City[^] by Clifford Simak Cities in Flight[^] by James Blish The City We Became[^] by N. K. Jemisin All permanent(*) members of my science fiction / fantasy collection. (*) Books which I reread periodically. There are some which I ration myself to only rereading them every few years.
Software Zen:
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Some obligatory references: City[^] by Clifford Simak Cities in Flight[^] by James Blish The City We Became[^] by N. K. Jemisin All permanent(*) members of my science fiction / fantasy collection. (*) Books which I reread periodically. There are some which I ration myself to only rereading them every few years.
Software Zen:
delete this;thanks Gsry, Been a long time since i read sci-fi, but J.G. Ballard comes to mind. literary: Percy Shelley ... Ozymandias Borges: ,,, The Library of Babel, Asterion philosophy: the recurrent myth of a "lost paradise:" Rene Dubos"The Mirage of Heakth"cheers, bill history: Lisa Jardine, "Worldly Goods" the profound stimulus to the Renaissance that unique goods from China (silk, porcelain) had, as well as the assimilation of ancient Greek science, geometry, astronomy from the Arabs who had preserved it and developed it much further,
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch