By Marc, on March 26th, 2007%
On Thursday, I had the unique opportunity to represent Yahoo, along with 3 of my colleagues at the “Developer Bowl” at the SD West 2007 conference in Santa Clara, California. Basically it was a developer trivia game, with 4 companies competing, and it was lots of fun.
I have to admit I was a little worried when . . . → Read More: SD West 2007 Developer Bowl
By Marc, on March 20th, 2007%
I went to SD West 2007 in Santa Clara today and it was pretty interesting. Most of the day was spent in two interesting half-day sessions on C++ design from Kevlin Henney:
Programmer’s Dozen: Thirteen Recommendations for Reviewing, Refactoring, and Regaining Control of C++ Code
In the MOOD: Modern Object-Oriented Design in C++
And there was also an interesting . . . → Read More: SD West
By Marc, on March 16th, 2007%
Catherders.com : Keyboard mappings for a KVM switch in linux
Hmmm, scroll lock is not switching from my Linux machine to my Windows laptop with our IOgear KVM switch. Maybe I should try this…
(tags: kvm)
PHPUnit Pocket Guide
PHPUnit is a rather nice testing framework for PHP
(tags: . . . → Read More: links for 2007-03-16
By Marc, on March 11th, 2007%
The Lossless Audio Blog » Media Center Edition 2005 with Flac, Ogg, Ape & WavPack.
This may have the answer on how to get Windows Media Player to recognize FLAC metadata…
(tags: flac . . . → Read More: links for 2007-03-11
By Marc, on March 4th, 2007%
For a while, I’ve had the rather annoying problem that my Treo 650 crashes 95% of the time when I insert an SD card or navigate to the card in the launcher.
After reading about it on a forum, I fired up FileZ and deleted the infamous .DS_Store and .Trashes junk that my Mac put on there . . . → Read More: Eliminated Treo crash on SD card insert
By Marc, on March 4th, 2007%
Getting started with ASDF
A concise intro to Common Lisp’s ASDF packaging system
(tags: lisp asdf cl common-lisp)
CLiki : cl-yahoo
CL-YAHOO is a Common Lisp interface to the Yahoo! API, a networking api which enables searching the web through yahoo. Web-search, image-search, spelling, news-search, local search , contextual search, and term extraction are supported.
(tags: cl common-lisp)
CLiki : cl-delicious
cl-delicious is . . . → Read More: links for 2007-03-04
By Marc, on March 3rd, 2007%
I was reading some essays about Common Lisp and came across a few interesting libraries for accessing some of Yahoo’s Web Services APIs:
cl-delicious: for accessing the del.icio.us API
cl-yahoo: for accessing the Yahoo! Search API
Clickr – for accessing the Flickr API
In the case of cl-delicious, it was a little harder to install (into SBCL on my Ubuntu . . . → Read More: Common Lisp libraries for Yahoo! APIs