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The perl cookbook – in Ruby
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Fukuoka is a fantastic city, but rarely on a visitors travel itinerary.
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Hardware fun! I miss playing with hardware…
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“BBAuth also offers a Single Sign-On (SSO) facility so that existing Yahoo! users can use your services without having to complete yet another registration process.” w00t!
links for 2006-09-29
Posted on September 30, 2006
links for 2006-09-16
Posted on September 17, 2006
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Nice way of styling microformated data
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Develop desktop apps with flex and flash
Wii!
Posted on September 16, 2006
links for 2006-09-15
Posted on September 16, 2006
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Karl’s movie gets reviewed by Fangoria. Is there anywhere left to go from here?
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Rails ResourceFeeder plugin
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open source flash communication server
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Trailer for Karl’s incredibly funny short film
Euro Wii on Dec 8th!
Posted on September 15, 2006
Been excitedly waiting to hear if Nintendo was going to screw over us Europeans with a delay to ‘07 with the Wii. But no! I just got a text from Nintendo (when on earth did I sign up for that?!) that Wii will launch in Europe on 8th of December. Yay!!!
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Posted on September 15, 2006
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interseting markup language for rails
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Tagging different sections of movies with different tags
5.5G iPod decoder chip upgraded
Posted on September 13, 2006
I’m surprised that I’ve not seen this talked about elsewhere, but it seems that the video decoder chip in the new enhanced iPod has been upgraded too. From the iPod page:
6.5 hours of battery life refers to 80GB model and is based on H.264 1.5-Mbps video at 640-by-480 resolution combined with 128-Kbps audio.
In comparison, the original 5G iPod could only decode H.264 at a max bit-rate of 768 kbit/s. Finally this means I don’t have to create transcoded mini-versions of everything in order to play on the ‘pod. Sure, it’ll take up a bit more space, but who cares when there’s 80Gig to go around. Obviously, the screen is the same res, but it just means less fiddling around.
Of course, this also means that if you are playing a 320×240 transcoded version, then you’re going to get even more life out of that battery.
It might not be the 16:9 touch-screen iPod that we all have dreams about (or is that that just me?), but this is a tasty little upgrade. Time to pass the 5G to the wife and upgrade to the 5.5G? Hmmm… Wonder if she’ll be suspicious?
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Posted on September 13, 2006
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Interview with Matz, the creator of Ruby
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Create a personal paper pocket organiser
links for 2006-09-11
Posted on September 12, 2006
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Great idea – take something totally taken for granted and make it better – and a business!
Quote
Posted on September 10, 2006
From a fantastic list of quotations on programming:
“There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.”
—Edward Tufte
JRuby
Posted on September 10, 2006
With all the crazy working, conferencing and writing over the past few days, I totally missed the announcement that Sun have employed the JRuby guys. Their job? Get JRuby 1.0 out. Sweet.
I worked at Sun for a few years and have a lot of respect for the company (even though they totally wiped out my whole division – which, thinking about it in hindsight, was an essential and smart move which took a lot of balls to admit and do). This is another brave and damn smart move. Hopefully this will make it even easier for developers to get some Ruby-joy, especially for those developing in an environment where running straight Ruby isn’t an option.
Tim Bray also expresses his desire to help speed up the next-gen native Ruby engine, not just JRuby, and that he’s interested in helping improve the toolsets for dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python. Let’s hope that it’s not just talk, and that something comes of this. It’s great to see Sun getting behind Ruby. And congratulations to Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, the JRuby guys. I hope Sun lives up to its promise and gives you all the support you need to make JRuby everything it can be.
Update: Found a great interview by Pat Eyler with the JRuby guys. Interesting stuff.
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<!d.construct'd
Posted on September 09, 2006
Had a great day yesterday in Brighton at d.construct. I missed it last year, so it was great to see what the fuss was about. Some great speakers and interesting folks, but as usual at these kind of things, there’s never enough time or opportunities to do everything that you intend to, especially when you had to wake up way-before dawn to catch a bloody early train. Yeah, I guess that’s my own fault for being too cheap to stay in Brighton though!
Jeffrey Veen’s presentation stole the show for me, but Thomas Vander Wal gave a fantastic presentation on tagging which really made me think differently about something that I took for granted and will definitely change some of my application design. Jeffrey Veen really gave me lots to think about, and it’s great to see such a smart and passionate person talking about something they obviously care about. Great stuff.
Derek Featherstone’s presentation on accessibility was also fascinating, again, making me re-think things which I thought I already knew inside out. Great stuff.
Aral Balkan’s Flex talk was more interesting than I expected, and I do believe that there are some great possibilities with Flex, but I’m still not 100% convinced. It just seems so.. so.. un-open :)
It’s a shame Simon Willison and Paul Hammond couldn’t give a bit more of a peek behind the curtain about the Yahoo-tech – I enjoyed their talk, and they are both great speakers and damn smart, but I felt like they were preaching to the choir. I’d love to hear more about what is possible with the internal APIs and how they do their RAD development. I know it’s not really feasible, but it would be fun.
Anyway, a great day, and a fantastic excuse to escape to the seaside for the day. It really beats being stuck in the smoke. Looking forward to next year’s event!
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<!Spam 1999
Posted on September 07, 2006
For some reason, my gmail spambox made me laugh. I think there’s a tv show in there somewhere.
