Archive for September, 2008

Flickr Top Places, updated

Posted by Glen on September 19, 2008. No comments.

Little update to my Flickr app that calculates your most popular places: now you can see your most popular countries, localities, regions and neighbourhoods. Check it out: Flickr Top Places

JavaScript engine war hots up

Posted by Glen on September 19, 2008. One comment.

Coming soon after the announcement of Google’s new Chrome browser and its V8 JavaScript engine, the WebKit project has now released details of SquirrelFish Extreme. An update to the never officially released SquirrelFish engine, the benchmarks against Safari 3.1 certainly look impressive. Other benchmarks also show it outperforming both V8 and Firefox 3.1′s TraceMonkey engine. [...]

Cal Henderson on Django

Posted by Glen on September 16, 2008. No comments.

Very entertaining talk from Flickr’s Cal Henderson on Django’s shortcomings.

Your top places, according to Flickr

Posted by Glen on September 12, 2008. 2 comments.

I’ve been messing around with a little Flickr application this afternoon which shows your top places. Here are mine: Give it a try and post a comment with your number one place: Flickr Top Places

Apple’s Much Improved Release Notes

Posted by Glen on September 12, 2008. No comments.

Unlike the rather terse release notes for the iPhone Software Update 2.01, the 2.1 notes are much more informative:

oneConnect for iPhone

Posted by Glen on September 11, 2008. No comments.

oneConnect for iPhone Originally uploaded by hey mr glen Today, Yahoo have released a beta iPhone application called oneConnect. One of the cool features is Pulse, which shows you status updates from your friends on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. Very handy. Yahoo! oneConnect™ for iPhone. A new way to stay [...]

Obama versus McCain: Web Standards

Posted by Glen on September 9, 2008. No comments.

Despite his carefully cultivated â€œmaverickâ€ image, McCain is playing it traditional and conservative by using HTML 4.01, the W3C spec from 1999. Obama shows himself to be much more progressive, adopting the 21st century XHTML 1.0 transitional standard. Obama is RESTful » Idol Hands: Days in the Life of an Alpha Geek

Stephen Fry wishes GNU a happy birthday

Posted by Glen on September 3, 2008. No comments.

Mr. Stephen Fry introduces you to free software, and reminds you of a very special birthday Freedom Fry â€” “Happy birthday to GNU”

Google bringing new browser to the party

Posted by Glen on September 2, 2008. One comment.

Google have announced news of Chrome, a new open source Webkit-based browser. The central premise is that it has been designed from the ground-up to work efficiently with the demanding web applications of today’s web. In particular, it features a JavaScript engine called V8 which can utilise multiple processes, as opposed to the single-process engines [...]