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"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion ." - C. Northcote Parkinson Today we will complete our work on the Client Library Reference Design. We will cover all the major objects inside the library (Object Factory, Connector, call, etc) and explain how to use...

"Two languages implementing the same idea must, on pain of death, use different terms." - Feldman's Law of Programming Terminology Hello Travelers! It is good to be back. I want to thank you all for your feedback on the Survey I posted last week. I will keep it open for a few...

"Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort." - Andrew Greeley Hello fellow travelers!! I wanted to start off by apologizing for not publishing a new video this week and last. I have been out of the office for a few...

"Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes." - Virgil Today we will walking though how to capture and view REST messages via a network trace. We will start by using TCPDump to collect the network traffic on the XMS server. We will then use the sample REST demo we have been...

"There was something amazingly enticing about programming" - Vint Cerf Today we will be reviewing how long polling is used to deliver XMS REST events. We will start with an overview of polling and long polling. We will also continue the review Http classes used to implement the long...

"Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of examples" - Niklaus Wirth Welcome back Travelers! I hope that you are all well REST ed after our brief respite. Today we will resume our Journey with our first look at some Java code....

"Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design." - Jef Raskin In this weeks video we will be covering the high level design for our Reference Design Project . We will revisit the proposed user interface pseudo code for our...

"If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support." - Robert W Floyd In this video I will be selecting the programming language to use for the Reference Design Project. I will...

Last week @chadwallacehart shared some javascript code that used the HTML5 drawImage() method to copy a <video> source to various canvas contexts which could then be manipulated. As a result, we are able to slice the external video source into four quadrants for display. The code was great so I...