Projects

On Writing an Aggregator Server

Published · 4min

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 …

Meta

Implementing Categories

Published · 3min

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 …

Meta

The Impending Return of Comments

Published · 2min

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 …

Meta

Comments in Weblogs

Published · 4min

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 …

Databases

Slow entry submission

Published · 2min

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

Google Code Jam 2004, The Middle

Published · 2min

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 …

Life

Why you should always finish your projects

Published · 1min

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 …

Coding

Martin Fowler on Closures

Published · 1min

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 …

Projects

Sage

Published · 2min

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 …

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