I recently came across a problem developing an application that I hadn’t thought of before (mostly because it’s not something I’ve ever had to do before) but is, in its generic sense, a problem as old as computers themselves. That problem is, of course, portability. No I’m not talking about the dreaded Windows/Unix/Apple debate. I’m [...]
In honor of the weekend I figured I’d take the liberty of trying out a few new blogging tools which may or may not make your life easier. First on deck we’ve got Zemanta, available as a WordPress plugin or, for those not using WordPress or unable to install plugins, it’s also available as an [...]
When faced with a question to which we don’t know the answer, we turn to our informational overlords on the internet. The amount of data available on the inernet is rivaled only by the number of people screaming to be heard, and sifting through the noise to track down that one piece of data can [...]
Amazon just went nuclear on the public API front, making over a terrabyte worth of information available to developers through a searchable API rivaling Google. Everything from US census information and labour statistics to the entire English section of Wikipedia in machine readable format.
