Here’s a mad idea I had a few months back: if we can use bayesian filtering on spam, why not use it to automagically categorise entries? It’s not going to be foolproof, but it would be an interesting experiment, and it may just work! We wouldn’t need …
Seeing as I’m flitting about the idea of finishing my two and a half year old RSS aggregator, Mocha, I’ve also had an idea that might help reduce the load that aggregators inevitably take on the web: an aggregator server.
Bloglines is a great idea, but it has …
One thing I’d like to add, but I’ve never came up with as satisfactory method of implementation for, is categories.
The best pure one that I’ve come up with is to use an unsigned integer column as a bit array, with each bit representing a category. The …
I’ve been putting this off for long enough, and I think it’s time to add comments back to my site.
The old system allowed comments on every page of the site, not just the weblog. I think this is only right. The comments system is still in there …
A while back, I printed off a comments thread from Keith Deven’s Weblog because I wanted to see how it had gone.
Last night, I finally got around to reading it. One of the comments, which happened to have nothing to do with the matter at hand, made me …
I’m getting a little pissed off with the query used to generate this front page. The last two times I’ve posted up new entries, the blasted thing’s gone and timed out on me for no good reason.
I wasn’t able to run the MySQL profiler on …
Coding’s finished, and I’m not happy with myself.
I was in group 8 and only got one of the problems done. I spent about 30 minutes staring at the problem, trying to understand what they were asking, but for some reason my brain failed to comprehend anything.
Queue …
I was looking at my feeds earlier, and peeking through Simon Willison’s weblog feed, and spotted a reference to Live Bookmarks in it. Go take a look at the screenshot: it looks frighteningly similar to a cross between Sage and a cut-down version of what I described for Mocha …
Martin Fowler’s talking about closures on his blog. I was rather disappointed that he didn’t bring up JavaScript when he was talking about it.
Why do I mention it, besides the fact that I like JS as a language? It’s because it’s given far less credit …
A while back, I downloaded a copy of RSS Bandit as I need/wanted an RSS aggregator. I’d heard good things about it, so I thought it would be a good idea to give it a try.
However, I hit the same problems I have with every other aggregator …
