RasterWeb!

There’s comments, and then there are comments…

I mean, you comment your code, the code that most likely only you will be dealing with, so that you can figure out what the heck you were thinking/doing/etc. when you look at that code months later, right? And those comments make sense to you, at least you hope. I mean, you wrote them!

Then there’s the case where that same code has to go to someone else, and you end up adding a million more comments in the hope that what you wrote makes sense to that someone else. Someone who isn’t really as versed in Perl (or whatever language) as you probably are. Hurm…

There goes all my scripts that were nice and compact at under 500 lines of code. Well, actually, they’re all still under 500 lines of actual code, I’ve just added 100 lines of comments, or so it seems…

In tribute to the font joke spotted at prolific.org, I offer this:

1st Designer: “Wow, you always have so many fonts, where do you get them from?”

2nd Designer: “Oh they come from Monaco, Geneva, Chicago, New York… I get them delivered at various Times throughout the day…”

1st Designer: “By who?”

2nd Designer: “A Courier!”

(At least you can’t throw tomatoes at me…)

Hooray! for the Yahoo! API!

Inspired slightly by what Russell did with it in JSP for a video search, I felt compelled to crank out a simple example in Perl, though I choose to do a local search. See the results in my Yahoo! Local Search.

Looking for beer near my house? You got it!

I don’t care what people say, REST is cool. I didn’t even really need to read any docs or look at sample code, as it’s just a matter of building a URI getting the resuls (in XML) and converting it to HTML. Perl does all that quite well.

I will be the first to admit that this is not exactly “production ready” as it only underwent minimal testing. But then again, writing and testing it all took well under an hour…

I think one of the reasons I like orange juice so much is because I hate eating oranges so much.

Whew, all this talk about oranges makes me think about The Oranges Band on Lookout Records…

Jim wants to sell blo.gs! Ouch… I will definitely miss it if it goes away, or gets turned into something evil. But really, I can’t blame him for unloading it, since it was costing him real money. I propose a big round of applause for Jim running it this long, providing a valuable resource to the community.

Hmmm, maybe Yahoo! will buy it? (Jeremy?)

(It just figures, we get GeoURL back, and we may lose blo.gs…)