ats:
(Via Trapper.)
"A hospital has lost £2.5m in funding for treating patients too quickly."
"Ipswich Hospital agreed with the East Suffolk Primary Care Trusts, which fund treatment, that patients should wait at least four months for treatment."
Uh.
David: headdesk headdesk headdesk headdesk headdesk
David:
"pdf2oo converts pdf to odf. It creates an image for each page, allowing to overlay drawings and text and export it back to pdf."
Looks handy, I'll have to give it a try
David: At last! My favourite GUI toolkit meets my favourite programming language! :)
ats: My goodness, why would anybody want to do that? ;)
David: Anything to escape the prospect of coding in Python ;)
ats: Actually, why would anybody want to program using Swing, ever? It's absolutely horrific.
(And you can do it trivially in Python using JPython; no magic bindings required...)
David: I quite like Swing. I found it really easy to get my head around.
ats: Just out of interest, what other toolkits do you have experience with?
David: This probably comes of it being the only GUI toolkit I've tried which came with reasonable documentation for the language I was working in
My efforts with GTK for example were somewhat hindered by the "Well, this is the Perl API for GTK ... which isn't quite finished ... and is almost entirely lacking in documentation - so go and try to interpret the C docs."
ats: Ah. The Python bindings for GTK are excellent. :)
David: How's the documentation though?
ats: I consider good documentation to be an important part of excellent bindings.
David: Ah. Now if only I liked Python :)
ats: But Swing really is an appallingly bad toolkit design; there must be something else that has reasonable Perl bindings...
(Or perhaps you should learn another programming language at some point ;)
David: It looks very likely that I'll be getting some Java training soon :D
I thought I'd managed to escape it after Uni, but no, I get to return to the land of the vastly verbose everything
OTOH I am becoming increasingly fond of JavaScript, so maybe I should learn XUL.