Latest revision as of 17:58, 20 January 2009

Morning

Review checklist items from last week +

The idea of this exercise is to create a unique "front end" interface with a form, to an existing CGI. The CGI might be a search engine, or a

Look at / Practice with:

(GET vs. POST)

some examples of some "back ends":

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+= Morning =
-= Reading =
+Review checklist items from last week +
-Reading for today's meeting is Ted Nelson's "Way out of the box":
+* Review tag assignment
-[[Image:WayOutOfTheBox.pdf]]
+* Setting up / Locating a local webserver
+* userdir
+= Afternoon =
+You can use the [[Template.html]].
+== Exercise 1: FormFunction ==
+The idea of this exercise is to create a unique "front end" interface with a form, to an existing CGI. The CGI might be a search engine, or a
+* [[Form Elements]]
+Look at / Practice with:
+* Python's [http://docs.python.org/library/urlparse.html urlparse] module
+** "Absolutizing" with [http://docs.python.org/library/urlparse.html#urlparse.urljoin urljoin].
+(GET vs. POST)
+some examples of some "back ends":
+* [[Dump.cgi]]
+* [[Print_environ.cgi]]
+* captcha generators
+* [http://www.geuzen.org/female_icons/play/letters.php?msg=o+my+god&image=paris.jpg&font=effusive.ttf&p=240&bg=%23000000&cutout=center female icons writer]
+* [http://images.google.be/images?imgsz=small|medium|large|xlarge&imgtype=face&as_st=y&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Veronica+Lake%22&btnG=Search+Images google face search]
+* [http://nag.iap.de/ Net Art Generator] from Cornelia Solfrank
+* http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
+* http://beast.mongrel.org.uk/cgi-bin/Recognition.pl
+* http://public.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
+= For Next Week =
+* Extend your tech plan -- link to a "first step" -- a first