I'm hoping that I might be able to work as part of a team where others can feed me information I can analyze. It would be nice to have or understand what I need to be better integrated into a web-page front end using J.
I do a primitive version of the preliminary work for something like this when I use J to pull information out of a web page I get using "wget" but my extraction methods are very ad-hoc and it's very much an "off-line" activity. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > That page took about 30 seconds to load, apparently because chrome decided > to sit for 30 seconds between loading the page and loading the first script > on that page (jQuery). Not really directly relevant, but I data > transparency has a lot of issues which do not seem directly relevant. > > Anyways, the way to get good at something is to do a lot of it. And to > have good tools for getting at the things you need when you do a lot... > > Right now, J doesn't have anything like php / asp.net / rails / django ... > In some ways, jhs hits that same region, but it's designed for developers, > not for end user applications. > > Also, J doesn't have anything with the ease of use of ". which can be > safely fed content from untrusted browsers -- no one has cared. > > Also, J doesn't have a simple way of managing multiple processes or tasks. > > Anyways... needs thought... lots of scope of work issues, here. > > -- > Raul > > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This competition (and ones like it) - http://datatransparency.wsj.com/ >> - is something for which I'd like to use J but I'm afraid we're still >> not ready for prime-time to use J for web-based development - at least >> the GUI end of it. >> >> Do people have thoughts on this? >> >> -- >> Devon McCormick, CFA >> ^me^ at acm. >> org is my >> preferred e-mail >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
