Yahoo! is launching a “web analytics” service on a limited basis starting this week, as reported by Search Engine Land. The new service (currently in beta and available to only a select handful of advertisers and third party application developers) is apparently the result of Yahoo’s acquisition of IndexTools earlier this year.
Jitendra Kavathekar, Yahoo’s VP [...]
October 4, 2008
While browsing Flickr the other night, I came across Debby Arem’s photo stream, which included some amazing and unique decor creations made out of recycled circuit boards.
I’m really digging some of these designs, not to mention being totally impressed with how she was able to incorporate the circuit boards into so many different areas. I [...]
September 24, 2008
When I first interviewed for Heavy, Scott Penberthy told me he wanted to make Heavy.com and future products be able to run in the local Starbucks.
What exactly did he mean by that? The simple answer I would soon learn was that he wanted to reduce our infrastructure overhead drastically. Heavy, like many popular [...]
September 8, 2008
Advanced Python (more about the inner workings of python and not programming tactics), Google TechTalk by Thomas Wouters
This talk aims to enlighten programmers new to Python about these fundamentals, the language mechanics that flow from them and how to effectively put those to use. Among the topics covered are duck-typing, interfaces, descriptors, decorators, metaclasses, [...]
August 21, 2008
This is a short introductory guide to creating static methods. Static methods, though not used entirely that often, can be a very useful tool. I personally get the most use out of them when organizing my code.
Python’s static methods have a similar implementation as Java & C++. Static methods were not introduced into Python until [...]
August 19, 2008
The answer is no.
One way to see if a variable exists in the namespace is by catching exceptions when trying to access the variable. Here is an example:
try:
if foo:
# variable is set, do something
pass
except NameError:
[...]
August 15, 2008
While checking out Tech Crunch this morning, came across an interesting article, which I just so happen to disagree with. The article was titled T-Mobile Is Dreaming Of Android Riches. And It Might Have To Keep Dreaming. Naturally, like most articles on Tech Crunch, the piece was well written and though out, but I believe [...]
March 8, 2008
This has been long awaited my many hardcore iPhone fans as well as companies looking to get a jump start on this new market. Along with the software update, Apple also announced that venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has created a $100 million “iFund” to fund software development on both the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Developers [...]
April 29, 2007
Probably one of the most tedious parts of web development is hand coding a URL with several parameters attached to it. Most beginning developers are use to hand coding URL’s when developing dynamic web apps, much like this.
<a href=”page.php?id=<? echo $_GET['id']; ?>&title=<? echo $_GET['title']; ?>&q=<? echo $_GET['q']; ?>”>XXX</a>
This isn’t a horrible practice and of course [...]
April 29, 2007
Found this interesting function that can handle a HTTP POST without using redirects or any special hacks. This is extremely useful for sending data over a secure HTTPS POST or to another web site. cURL is probably the better choice here, but if you don’t have the library avaliable, (like many developers because of strict [...]