announcing lib_oauth - an OAuth library for PHP4, requiring no extra extensions, pear modules, etc. » « 23:45 04/08/08 | permalink | coding php oauth
the window.name transport for dojo is utter genius. » « 12:32 23/07/08 | permalink | javascript coding web
some js debugging tips from forever ago [via dunstan] » « 08:44 23/07/08 | permalink | javascript coding tips
i didn't realize there'd be so much movement on rakudo. it's looking pretty snazzy » « 10:43 19/07/08 | permalink | perl coding
jeez richard, learn 2 google. how to print stuff to stdout in c# » « 16:11 03/03/08 | permalink | coding
the XPCOM string guide means i don't have to keep asking richard whether i should be using an nsAString or nsACString. nice » « 15:53 13/12/07 | permalink | coding mozilla
dependency walker is a lovely little tool for checking dll/exe imports and exports. via rc » « 09:13 12/12/07 | permalink | windows coding
the context free art language is very neat. did i blog this recently? » « 08:49 11/11/07 | permalink | art coding
aside from the final calculation being highly dubious, the perl module dependancy viewer is pretty neat » « 05:54 09/11/07 | permalink | perl coding
shoes is probably old hat, but looks kinda cool » « 14:19 06/11/07 | permalink | ruby windows coding
porting flickr over to sql on rails is going to take all day » « 08:30 11/10/07 | permalink | coding
for future reference - a library to unpack MoPaQ archives for WoW » « 11:57 09/08/07 | permalink | games coding
rails has reached that nasty stage where alot of people are using it and a hole is found. it's been handled interestingly, for sure » « 19:44 09/08/06 | permalink | rails coding web
the songbird source is now available - should make creating xulrunner apps much easier. » « 14:48 27/06/06 | permalink | xulrunner coding
maybe we should port flickr to emoticon » « 23:16 10/06/06 | permalink | coding
sphere looks very cool - a game engine which embeds spidermonkey for scripting. need to check that out further » « 16:08 17/05/06 | permalink | games coding javascript
qlaonic is a great syntax resource [via salti] » « 16:55 27/01/06 | permalink | coding
from a php disucssion at work: "If you're willing to continually do the heavy lifting of ensuring that your version of Smalltalk96 on Rails stays concurrent with the latest patches". omg, how awesome would that be? » « 12:09 18/11/05 | permalink | rails smalltalk php language web coding
a paper about intercal. very nice » « 23:25 16/11/05 | permalink | intercal programming coding language
shdh5. see you there » « 22:10 30/10/05 | permalink | coding parties
lyric tracker have exposed what they call a soap interface (although it's 100% rest). pretty easy to use - time for a lyrictracker/last.fm mash-up. » « 17:21 06/10/05 | permalink | soap rest services webservices coding apis
php annoyance of the day: "If you compare two numerical strings, they are compared as integers" ... even if we can't convert those strings to numerics without losing precision. » « 11:44 06/10/05 | permalink | php coding
rollyo is, as time says, "in the web 2.0 style". built on top of the y! search api. » « 14:04 30/09/05 | permalink | apis coding web web2.0
the dp.SyntaxHighlighter is an inspired piece of javascriptery. it takes simple textareas with certain classes, and truns them into syntax highlighted code listing displays, complete wityh line numbers, tab stops and alternating line colors. beautiful and really easy to use. [via aaron] » « 11:37 30/08/05 | permalink | javascript coding syntaxhighlighting highlighting formatting
rate my code is awesome - thanks to salti for finding that » « 20:47 08/08/05 | permalink | code coding hotornot
jsan is finally alive [via aaron] » « 21:08 30/06/05 | permalink | cpan javascript coding jsan
i'm currently rewriting the X:P:L:T:X module using the CADT model, but i have an excuse. as it, it can't really toke properly and gets too confused. a new tokener is done and seems to be working. just need to tree it and evaluate it. » « 13:09 01/06/05 | permalink | coding perl xpath jwz parsing tokening
eric pointed me toward trixie, which implements greasemonkey functionality for IE. very very cool. » « 19:22 31/05/05 | permalink | ie web scripting coding greasemonkey firefox javascript
the ICFP programming contest seems fun - i wonder if anyone's planning on implementing in brainfuck. or smith. or maybe homespring :) » « 20:48 29/05/05 | permalink | programming coding contests language brainfuck smith homespring
i thought it had been completely lost in the midsts of time, but i found my implementation of wait. » « 18:59 25/05/05 | permalink | coding esolanf brainfuck bf wait
php diary is good. and linking to an old article of mine. which surely makes me more likely to lonk to them ;) » « 00:26 24/05/05 | permalink | php coding web
aaron spotted this little gem of perl wisdom. crazy stuff. » « 19:08 17/05/05 | permalink | humor perl coding ark
yadis is live journal's new distributed authentication procotol. we're talking about redoing the flickr auth api internally to gel with the yahoo SSO stuff and to allow non-web apps to authenticate, but are still talking design. » « 17:47 16/05/05 | permalink | software apis authentication livejournal yahoo protocols coding
Acme::JavaTrace might actually be a useful acme perl module. oops » « 17:22 14/05/05 | permalink | perl coding parody java
yoz linked to a good resource for anyone thinking of developing moz extensions - worth checking out. » « 08:04 30/03/05 | permalink | mozzila dev coding extensions firefox
phil doesn't believe ruby on rails exists: "Personally I prefer Cobra with the Spoke and Hairnet modules compiled in. But I've heard Gerbera on Souflé is even more powerful, particularly if you already have a load of Buckingham code"lying around. » « 00:32 23/03/05 | permalink | coding ruby language
mr hammond is doing cool things with flickr - his contacts' most popular tags. nice » « 16:48 21/03/05 | permalink | flickr coding paulhammond
the html validator plugin for firefox is neato. saves uploading your work and tkaing trip to the validator pages. » « 17:55 03/03/05 | permalink | coding firefox plugins validation standards
excellent - i found an online version of the spectrum +3 manual - complete with chapter 8, the guide to +3 basic. » « 23:05 02/03/05 | permalink | spectrum manual basic coding
matt smith is writing games again. awesome. though it might turn out to be a big dissapointment. i'm working on a spectrum games myself at the moment (though porting it from spectrum to php :) » « 10:59 01/03/05 | permalink | games coding
sometimes i think microsoft is trying to spite me. i mean, wtf? what was mime invented for? » « 18:29 21/02/05 | permalink | tnef microsoft email coding
installsite has lots of information about building app installers. bookmarked for next time i actually get an app finished ;) » « 14:25 08/02/05 | permalink | window applications coding installers
a nasty four year old bug in firefox is stopping some large corps from using it. ouch! sort out your priorities guys. » « 23:44 07/02/05 | permalink | firefox windows bugs coding
autrijus is implementing a featherweight perl6 in haskell. it's on cpan. i'm overly excited. » « 23:47 06/02/05 | permalink | perl6 parrot pugs haskell coding
A byte walks into a bar and orders a pint. Bartender asks him "What's wrong?" Byte says "Parity error." Bartender nods and says "Yeah, I thought you looked a bit off." » « 00:17 04/02/05 | permalink | coding jokes bash
for your coding pleasure - porter stemmer in php » « 13:51 03/02/05 | permalink | stemming php coding
the porter stemming algorithm in perl - bookmarked for later programming fun. » « 09:42 03/02/05 | permalink | stemming coding perl
how to build an oo system with inheritance, using just basic lua - the story of o. fascinating stuff. » « 09:48 01/02/05 | permalink | lua coding oop
savant seems like a good idea, but basically just sucks. php is too syntax heavy for templating. a six character sequence to open a tag? ffs » « 18:58 07/12/04 | permalink | coding php
an almost-complete english translation of the french ocaml book is available for free online. » « 09:23 01/12/04 | permalink | coding
i found the pascal compiler i was looking for - maybe as a basis for developing a pascal to parrot compiler. » « 15:00 31/10/04 | permalink | coding
pdd7 contains parrot's coding standards. this document alone seems to be larger than most oss projects. a very detailed basis to start coding on. (though i wonder how closely the actual source follows the conventions). » « 21:06 17/10/04 | permalink | parrot coding
PAR looks really good. it's a JAR-like packaging system for perl apps. must investigate tomorrow. » « 23:40 06/09/04 | permalink | perl coding