Subject: slides from talk at LWCE2000 in New York
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 20:12:31 CST
FYI. As mentioned previously, I gave the following talk at LinuxWorld
earlier this month.
A Practical Approach to Cross-Platform Development
The design and implementation of cross-platform software is hard. Most
approaches to this problem involve the use of abstraction layers to hide
platform-specific portions of code. Commonly, designers attempt to
provide a complete abstraction layer which completely insulates the
program's algorithms from non-portable code. In the AbiWord project, we
embrace the fact that platform-specific code is a necessity, and we adopt
an architecture which helps us deal with it, rather than an architecture
which helps us avoid it. This session will discuss the techniques which
were used in the development of the world's only Open Source,
cross-platform word processor.
I'm pretty happy with how the talk turned out, so I've gone ahead and put
the slides online on our website:
http://www.abisource.com/talks/lwce2000ny/index.phtml
As you might expect, getting the .ABW version up on the site was trivial.
However, doing the PHP magic to convert it to a reasonable-looking HTML
version (with one page per slide) took some additional hacking.
Enjoy!
Paul
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