{"id":1361,"date":"2015-08-13T09:38:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T16:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2015-08-13T09:38:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T16:38:51","slug":"greenscreencraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"GreenScreenCraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Legacy” UI green screens. \u00a0They are smokin’ fast.<\/p>\n

I do a lot of things from the command line. \u00a0It’s just faster. \u00a0Some things, like a GUI view of a Git checkin help quite a bit. \u00a0But as a Java developer living in a server and configuration world there is nothing better than a good text interface.<\/p>\n

Applications<\/h2>\n

First, the good old Lynx<\/a> text browser. \u00a0Yes, you need this. \u00a0Sometimes you want to test CSS degradability or usability. \u00a0Sometimes curl or wget just don’t cut it. \u00a0Sometimes you need a wow factor.<\/p>\n

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Now this is super cool. \u00a0I used it on a Linux box cut off from all things civilized. \u00a0The Alpine<\/a> text email client. \u00a0Just like the old days of mail -f, but with this really slick interface. \u00a0If you ever use it, all of your wildest\u00a0\u00a0“why?”‘s will be answered.<\/p>\n

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Check this out — some people I know are using a Java Text GUI called Lanterna<\/a>. \u00a0I checked it out, it’s not bad. \u00a0Kind of looks like Turbo Pascal.<\/p>\n

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You are facing east, there is a compiler to your left.<\/p><\/div>\n

Maybe this isn’t “so” text-ui, but a Groovy<\/a> Console gives you a great minimum way of testing code snippets. \u00a0It’s a little quicker than my usual set-up-a-temp-unit-test.<\/p>\n

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Art<\/h2>\n

And then there’s the ASCII Art. \u00a0I noticed an upswing in it’s usage with some tools I had been involved with recently. \u00a0Like this Groovy enVironment Manager tool.<\/p>\n

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Or maybe you are working on\u00a0a Hoodie stack<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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Theater<\/h2>\n

Some even go waaaaay far . . . . like this old classic<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Getting rid of unneeded information and features isn’t a new thing at all. \u00a0For instance, a lot of XML is being jettisoned because of the size of the files\/requirements of the markup; UIs though feature-laden are being stripped down or minimally have the option to be. \u00a0Even single use hardware like tiny Roku and Amazon tv devices, full computers in and of themselves (this Fire Stick<\/a> has 1 GB of ram and a dual core processor and does one thing — make streaming TV available).<\/p>\n

I am all for the greenscreens!<\/p>\n

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“Legacy” UI green screens. \u00a0They are smokin’ fast. I do a lot of things from the command line. \u00a0It’s just faster. \u00a0Some things, like a GUI view of a Git checkin help quite a bit. \u00a0But as a Java developer living in a server and configuration world there is nothing better than a good text […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,25,10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}