Talis TDN and my blog revival
So, I asked myself - I have a blog and not really a productive one - the average blog readership is one, so again I feel like i'm talking to myself!
O'well - so what have I been upto - well I have a job at Talis (http://www.talis.com) and by far the most interesting entry point to the website is the TDN.
I'm no acomplished developer, with recently graduating (2.1 thanks for asking) in Computer Science SE, and my job title Support analyst - a job which i'm loving, but it also gives me a dev outlet - via the TDN.
Some interesting stuff they are doing at the moment is with "the platform" and "Keystone" of particular interest Project Cenote - which I found out was only C. 100 lines of code! WOW!
Intrigued, I found out more. Originally written in .Net with a few more loc, it was re-written in lightweight xslt in a matter of a week - consuming Amazon and the Talis platform - Munch!
So something so striking can be achieved in 100 loc? I endeavered to find out more. Xslt is something that I have neither been taught or realised was as powerful as it seems. I started by looking at a tutorial on Talis, swapping the crucial bits to see what happened - yes it broke, and then swapping the formatting - yes it looked poor -but I had learnt something!
I had a look at some tutorials but I'm more of a man that likes to experiment before knowing exactly how vunerable\bad my coding is - and trust me you learn quicker from mistakes than from tutorials.
I get the feeling i'm in the right place at the right time at the moment - so to all my reader(s) out there - watch this space! :)
O'well - so what have I been upto - well I have a job at Talis (http://www.talis.com) and by far the most interesting entry point to the website is the TDN.
I'm no acomplished developer, with recently graduating (2.1 thanks for asking) in Computer Science SE, and my job title Support analyst - a job which i'm loving, but it also gives me a dev outlet - via the TDN.
Some interesting stuff they are doing at the moment is with "the platform" and "Keystone" of particular interest Project Cenote - which I found out was only C. 100 lines of code! WOW!
Intrigued, I found out more. Originally written in .Net with a few more loc, it was re-written in lightweight xslt in a matter of a week - consuming Amazon and the Talis platform - Munch!
So something so striking can be achieved in 100 loc? I endeavered to find out more. Xslt is something that I have neither been taught or realised was as powerful as it seems. I started by looking at a tutorial on Talis, swapping the crucial bits to see what happened - yes it broke, and then swapping the formatting - yes it looked poor -but I had learnt something!
I had a look at some tutorials but I'm more of a man that likes to experiment before knowing exactly how vunerable\bad my coding is - and trust me you learn quicker from mistakes than from tutorials.
I get the feeling i'm in the right place at the right time at the moment - so to all my reader(s) out there - watch this space! :)
posted by Richard Francis at 8:55 pm
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