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You don't even know what you like 4 Nov 2011 | 12:28 pm
Over the past year or so, I noticed that my Twitter usage started dropping off. I felt less compelled to check it regularly, usually didn't bother reading it on my morning walk and found myself "keepi...
Microcaching: Speed your app up 250x with no new code 14 Oct 2011 | 11:37 am
I recently had the opportunity to help some friends out preparing a content site (wordpress) for a fairly hefty traffic hit. It was potentially going to be a big spike (national radio campaign, time s...
Fast Free Speech Recognition using Google's Infrastructure 11 Aug 2011 | 07:39 pm
A few of evenings ago, after a couple of glasses of red wine, I was wondering how Chrome's new(ish) x-webkit-speech voice input tag worked. Scalable, reliable, speech-to-text in opensource environmen...
node.js - A giant step backwards? 5 Aug 2011 | 04:22 am
A week into my first serious real-world node.js project, I was convinced it was the biggest step backwards since the Great Leap Forward. 6 weeks on, I'm definitely not so sure. As a quick preface, t...
String manipulation tricks in bash scripting 4 Mar 2010 | 09:18 pm
Only recently realised you can do some pretty handy string manipulations in bash, specifically, the ability to do string slicing: Embarrassingly, this arguably makes bashes string handling more power...
Why and how to use the Twitter Streaming API in PHP 19 Jan 2010 | 05:24 pm
About 2 weeks ago, Twitter promoted their little-known Streaming API to production status and, further to that, have now recommended that all high volume and repeated search queries should migrate to ...
Two iTunes accounts on one iPhone 8 Nov 2009 | 03:03 pm
A little known feature of the iPhone (at least from my discussions until recently) is the ability to have two (or more) iTunes/App store accounts linked to one iPhone. Why do this? The main reason (f...
Twitter Retweet API is all about TweetRank 14 Aug 2009 | 01:52 pm
Twitter's announcement today of a retweet API is all about search and not really about the current RT convention being (as Biz says) "a bit cumbersome". I'm definitely not the first person to comment...
