Archive for November, 2008
Review: London Perl Workshop
Spent an interesting morning in the company of many Perl mongers at the London Perl Workshop. Although I don’t use Perl as my primary language any more, it was was interesting to learn about the current movements of its London-based community. The talks I attended were: The Complete History of the Perle Mongers of Olde [...]
Real World Lisp
Prompted by a question posed by one of my colleagues today, “has anyone ever used Lisp?”, I surprisingly found myself being the only person that had. I played around with it many years ago after being inspired by Eric S. Raymond’s seminal article, “How to Become A Hacker” in which he explained that “getting” Lisp [...]
New application: Key Terms Search
A very simple example of the new BOSS Key Terms API: enter a search query, and see the relevant words and phrases: Search Key Terms Some examples: perl “Dave Grohl” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
London Perl Workshop – 29th November
The London Perl Workshop is a free one-day conference in central London, UK. It will be held on Saturday the 29th of November, 2008 at Westminster University’s New Cavendish Campus I’ll be attending, and so will my friend and fellow Yahoo Mike Whitaker, who will be presenting some talks on Moose and Enlightened Perl. London [...]
BrowserPlus to become Open Source
The new BrowserPlus framework – a way of extending your browser capabilities – will become open source next year, which seems a sensible way to increase its adoption: The big idea here is that we’ll have the whole platform open sourced by mid-next year, and as soon as possible we’ll have many of the services [...]
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it
Wise words taken from a list of programming epigrams from 1982: Epigrams on Programming
Closing PHP tag considered harmful
A good tip from Zend, who recommend omitting the closing PHP tag (?>) when your files contain pure PHP code. This can prevent additional whitespace being inserted into the script output. Extra whitespace can cause problems, for example, if you are trying to set your own custom HTTP headers: nothing should be output before the [...]
Write your own search engine: Hack event in London tonight!
Are you around London this evening? Fancy learning how to leverage Yahoo’s new BOSS search API? BOSS – Build (your) Own Search Service is Yahoo’s new API which allows you to build a search engine based on our systems. It is one of the first steps to make Yahoo! much more open for you to [...]
Microsoft considers WebKit for Internet Explorer
Wow. Open source is interesting. Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that, but we will continue to build extensions for IE 8. AppleInsider | Microsoft considers adopting WebKit for Internet Explorer
5 iPhone Tips for Flickr Addicts
I love Flickr, and the iPhone has opened up even more possibilities to interact with it. Here are my favourites: 1. Flickr web application The official iPhone client, and the best. m.flickr.com 2. Exposure The Exposure webapp has a great feature called “Close To Me” which, predictably, shows you Flickr photos taken close to your [...]