Characterisations, Hypotheses, Predictions and Experiments.
Posted in programming on Apr 10th, 2008
Beautiful Soup is a great little Python module that will read just about any HTML page and give you back a structured parsed tree. It’s awesome because you can pass it just about any mangled markup - I’ve never known it to choke on anything. For some web service consumers I’ve had to write over […]
Posted in programming on Apr 10th, 2008
Recently I’ve been putting some time into writing a database adapter for Django that uses Amazon’s S3 and SimpleDB services as a storage layer, whilst trying to retain as much of Django’s QuerySet functional layer as possible. The general goal is to provide a storage back-end for Django that isn’t dependent on the traditional vertically-scaling […]
Posted in bbc, programming, tubed on Dec 14th, 2007
The BBC has just released Flash streaming for iPlayer’s 7 Day Catch-Up feature. This is just about the best news to come out of the fiasco that is iPlayer, and for those of us unwilling or unable to install the bandwidth-destroying Kontiki client it’s the only way we can get our on-demand BBC programming.
Unfortunately, the […]
Posted in comics, programming on Dec 10th, 2007
I’m somewhat of a fan of Python, using it as I do for almost everything I do in programming, so it’s great to see other people appreciating the language.
Randall Munroe, however, might be getting a little… carried away:
Posted in programming, rants on Dec 2nd, 2007
Perl on Rails is a project by the smart chaps over in BBC Audio and Music Interactive that replicates the Ruby On Rails MVC framework in Perl. They’re obviously rather proud of themselves, and I understand that internally the project is making waves. Whilst I applaud the technical achievement of the individual developers, I deplore […]