Archive for January, 2006

C++ / Java / Python / Ruby

Ben pointed me to this great side-by-side comparison of C++, Java, Python and Ruby.

flickrfox 1.0.0

Yes, the perpetual beta is sooo tiresome these days, especially after almost a year of development; so I’ve finally taken the training wheels off of flickrfox.
New features:

you can now choose to see a single photo from each person in your contacts and friends and family photostreams.
there is a new built-in photostream called ‘interesting’ which presents [...]

pull the other one

A couple of weeks ago Richard MacManus posted his list of the best web companies and innovators of 2005. Richard drew a conceptual line in the sand between the davids and goliaths and awarded the overall bigCo award to Yahoo! for their savvy aquisitions during the course of the year (notably flickr, deli.icio.us and [...]

Technorati Watchlists as RSS

Technorati watchlists are a great way of keeping track of who is talking about your favorite subjects. But they’re even easier to use when you can pipe them into your aggregator of choice and have it keep you up to date. There’s a slight trick to finding the URL of the RSS feed [...]