Entries Tagged as 'development'
Javascript v. Flash/Air
With Chrome and V8 all out and garnering impressive press a lot of talk has come out suggesting that new and improved javascript engines are going to be the end of flash. With this next generation of browsers featuring impressive improvements to javascript speed and, if Google is to be believe, robustness speculation is that [...]
Categories: flash · javascript
Y! Pipes makes an RSS feed of your Spore creations!
I haven’t been playing with Pipes recently, mostly because I haven’t thought of anything to do with it. Fortunately with the advent of the Spore creature creator I thought it’d be nice to create an rss feed of my shared creatures. With a few moments of looking at html and a few more moments working [...]
A few more Python thoughts from a Perl guy
So recently I’ve been playing around with the Python, even bought a book to make things slightly less haphazard. First I want to get it out of the way, I like programming in Python - more than Ruby when I dabbled in it (surprisingly, to me, actually) and much more than any time spent with [...]
Book Review: Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB
Well, that’s a mouthful of a title. But there it is. It isn’t a super in depth review but some of my topline thoughts on the book. I think it gives a great overview of the technology that helps you get up to speed much faster than simply hitting the online docs and going for [...]
Why People Are Passionate About Perl
brian d foy started this Perl meme with a few questions. I haven’t written much about Perl recently, so here’s a little more.
· The person who introduced me to Perl showed me that…
Actually no one introduced me to Perl, I learned about it on the internets in ‘94, maybe I discovered it at a Gopher [...]
MySQL, UTF8 and my sanity
I’ve never really had to do much with UTF-8, consequently my facility with it has been, shall we say… limited. Recently, though, I found myself needing to delve a bit deeper - it was surprisingly simple once I understood what was going on, but that understanding eluded me for many an hour. I called in [...]
PHP and Templating Languages
Recently I’ve been spending a little more time in PHP land and coming across some various tid bits - I freely admit that I’m brand new to PHP and not steeped in it’s lore, but something that always confounded me was the purpose of SMARTY. Turns out SMARTY is a templating language that has garnered [...]
Categories: php
PHP’s shareability brings all the boys to the yard
A short followup to my PHP post from a couple days back… It spawned some interesting comments that got me thinking some more on the subject. Another post I came across pointed out some other really interesting points about PHP’s architecture.
Both in the comments and on Ian’s blog they note that basically it isn’t the [...]
Lessons to be learned from PHP
SEE ALSO: PHP’s shareability brings all the boys to the yard
I’ve been reading this latest thread of posts around the net concerning Ruby and shared hosts, or equivalently, ease of installation. Here’s one. Here’s another. And I’m glad, for Ruby, that they are talking about this problem - I hope for their sake they take [...]
More love for Perl 6
I was pretty psyched to see some good news from the Perl 6 people. It seems like steam is really picking up on that end with Perl 6 actually having a compilable binary now and Parrot coming along. It’s interesting how Perl 6 is pulling some inspiration from Haskell amongst it’s many other influences and [...]
Categories: perl
