Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Curl Demos

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Aug 6, 20071 min

In my review of Curl 5.0, which posted today, I called out a generic page for Curl demos, but I didn't go into the details. First, before you run any Curl demos, download and install the Curl RTE. There are three demo areas: Enterprise software demos: prototypes of various enterprise-related applications, highlighting Curl capabilities that can help build better business applications. Fun and games: Have some fu

First, before you run any Curl demos, download and install the Curl RTE.

There are three demo areas:

  • Enterprise software demos: prototypes of various enterprise-related applications, highlighting Curl capabilities that can help build better business applications.
  • Fun and games: Have some fun. Kick back and relax a bit, while getting a different perspective on the capabilities that Curl has to offer.
  • Code Samples: See how to use various capabilities of the Curl platform, particularly in the areas of dynamic 2D and 3D graphics.

The Enterprise area has 7 demos: Stock Performance Calculator, On-Line Map Exploration, Order Entry, Live Tax Form, Mailing Label, RSS Reader, and Web-Based Training.

The Fun and Games area has 4 demos: Chess, Chinese Checkers, Maki, and Match-it.

The Code Samples area has 9 demos, all with source code. Three samples cover 2D graphics, 4 cover 3D graphics, and the two miscellaneous samples implement a Whack-A-Mole game and a PDF viewer.

In my screencast, I spent a lot of time on the Ray Tracing demo, which personally I found impressive. On the other hand, the Enterprise software demos might shed more light on whether Curl could help your company.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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