gdp's Comments

DesertStandard : Good Morning Ocotillo! (VIDEO) - Sunrise Cycling in the Desert

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:09:31 +0000

Love it! Makes me want to ride my bike so bad. Did you mount the camera on the top or the seat tube? The shot is actually really stable. There's a short film in the Bike Film Fest this year that does the same thing around London. Which reminds me, if you fancy a trip to LA, the BFF is showing August 26 - 30.

http://electromute.com/ : Master's Track National Championships

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:10:45 +0000

Good luck and here's hoping for a great long weekend of cycling. You're inspiring me to get my ass down to London's Herne Hill velodrome. One day I'll do it.

DesertStandard : First day of Yoga Teacher Training at Inner Vision Yoga

Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:35:25 +0000

Congrats on your first day. Good luck with the rest. Next time we get together I'll come and be one of your students.

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Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:51:13 +0000

You're re-inventing every component of the framework. Taking the architecture from Rails means that is more tried and trusted, but the implementation is still new. Your blog states that building Turbinado is hard work, that doesn't reassure me that using it will be a productive process. Experimental stuff is incredibly important, but with this post I was complaining about the total lack of prospects for building production apps in Haskell. To build a production app, I need to use trusted components. That's a bootstrap process, but the size of the leap of faith is proportional the number of lines of code I need to import. That said, I really think Turbinado is an important project and I wish you every success with it. A bit of Darwinian selection will be a positive for everybody.

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Tue, 3 Feb 2009 06:09:34 +0000

I completely agree. Network.UrlDisp looks quite interesting and I'd be interested to have a play with it in a FastCGI context. Haskell feels intuitively like it should be able to express input validators simply and concisely. Formlets looks interesting, but again syntactically somewhat scary! I guess I'm just too used to reading Python.

aftnn.org: home of afternoon, web developer, london uk : aftnn.org: afternoon's journal

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:39:24 +0000

5,000 lines of Haskell is a big wheel. I ignored the idea that HAppS *had* to reinvent the wheel because I simply don't think it's true. I support this argument by pointing to the way Django, Rails and a whole bunch of other frameworks slot very nicely into the LAMP stack. Each of layers in that stack can be switched for your preference MySQL to Apache SimpleDB, Linux to Solaris. This gives the developer freedom and security. HVAC put it's data into SQLite, if HVAC sucks, I can serve data from that exact same DB with PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, C/C++, Scala, Groovy, Clojure, monkeys, pigeons... I can even run several at the same time. The unix philosophy: do one thing well.

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Fri, 9 Jan 2009 07:50:14 +0000

I think the Gnip schema looks good for what it does. I haven't really played around with it in depth, so others will have more useful comments. Would love to see JSON though :-).

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Fri, 9 Jan 2009 07:48:42 +0000

Thanks for your thoughts. Disclaimer: I built Followize to work for me, so that's my judgement call. Seeing the latest update from a random set of users would be interesting, perhaps better than the latest. There are some people who update so little, they're still hard to see even in a one-person one-vote system. Unfortunately, this isn't the ordering Twitter provide. They order on friendship create date, so I'll always see updates from the 100 most recently followed people. That's interesting, but not the reason I build Followize. Not sure about sorting at Twitter scale, I don't think their scale is actually that big. If Amazon can do it, and Google can, Twitter should be able to sa well :-). Fair enough that it may not be a trivial undertaking.

http://electromute.com/ : Recursion in PHP

Sun, 7 Dec 2008 21:59:10 +0000

Alas it's all hopes and dreams so far. Nothing works with Python 3 yet so no going there. I wrote a little program in Erlang to generate project definition files, but nothing serious yet. Would love to get paid to hack Erlang. Planning to update my CV soon!

http://electromute.com/ : Recursion in PHP

Sun, 7 Dec 2008 21:44:12 +0000

Very nice. Recursion is such a beautiful solution. I just got done reading Programming Erlang. Erlang is all about tail-recursive code, pattern matching and other functional loveliness. Very cool.

aftnn.org: home of afternoon, web developer, london uk : aftnn.org: afternoon's journal

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:14:12 +0000

I disagree. I'm looking for a blog, not the tools to build a blog. I want to be able to get a site up and running with as little coding as possible. Hence the requirement that features like tagging and sitemaps just work. Sure I could code it all, but I've failed to get around to doing that for almost 2 years. This post was an admission of that failure as much as anything.

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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:56:32 +0000

The OpenID implementation is provided by Intense Debate, a JS-based commenting system which I'm using as a stopgap. My old comment system just got spam flooded.

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Thu, 5 Jun 2008 04:42:11 +0000

Bite my shiny metal ass.

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Wed, 4 Jun 2008 03:45:13 +0000

Damn, so I did. ByteFlow certainly does look full featured and active. Thanks for the recommendation.

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Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:14:01 +0000

Look, comments!