…on the other hand: With all these people getting reacquainted with JavaScript by way of AJAX, wouldn’t it be cool if we had something as easy to deploy as PHP but based on JavaScript?
You know, not that I’ve been at it for long, but I’ve had an long-running observation about PHP: As a language and an API, PHP kinda stinks. It’s got more crud than I left behind in Perl, but without all the meta-magic that made it worth it. And, I get a little nervous tic [...]
So, I put some more infrastructure behind FeedMagick and lifted a RSS-to-JSON idea from John Resig to transform from MagpieRSS parsing to JSON output. Here’s a spiffy JSON-enriched demo. It was surprisingly easy, all told. I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to really put into this project, but this is the first [...]
Random Stuff Sent From Your Fax MachineFax something interesting to 1-510-545-0990 Source: Fax Toy – Random Stuff You Fax To Us It’s fun to fax anonymously! And it’s fun to have yet another opportunity for meta. First person to fax their ass from the Christmas party loses.
Hacking Del.icio.us (ExtremeTech)Leslie M. OrchardISBN: 0-470-03785-7Paperback400 pagesJune 2006 Source: Wiley::Hacking Del.icio.us (ExtremeTech) It took me awhile to say much at all about my first book. I was so excited to have been given the opportunity that I didn’t want to jinx it with a stray mouth-aimed foot. But, it looks like there’s already a page [...]
The column names were inspired by the freebie game Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot published by Atomic Sock Monkey. It’s fun! Try it!The fact that there are weird column names was inspired by sqlite’s (then-)inability to add columns to existing tables. So the last time I had to break the schema to add a new column, [...]
Part of the reason this whole must ignore thing with respect to feeds has me a bit fired up is because it seems like so few feed processing tools out there embrace this idea. And because of that, these tools are unfortunately brittle and prone to future shock. For example, take Syndication.framework on OS X: [...]
FeedMagick is a set of PHP tools used in filtering, converting, and otherwise munging XML syndication feeds in RSS and Atom formats. Source: FeedMagick – 0xDECAFBAD – Trac Okay, so I held my nose and started doing a bit of PHP hacking this past weekend, and this is what I’ve got so far. It wasn’t that [...]
Hi there! My name is Leslie Michael Orchard. I'm a serially enthusiastic, caffeine-dependent {web,mad,computer} scientist and {tech,scifi} writer working for the Mozilla Corporation and living near Ann Arbor / Detroit in Michigan.
