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Month: June 2010

  • Google Mail Contacts is my personal killer app

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    Serious!!! Once again: it syncs with the iPhone address book. I use it for reverse look up (phone number to address book entry) together with my telephone system in my home office, and that’s build around an AVM “FRITZ!Box“. The glue software got implemented by myself in ruby (w/o Rails). Why ruby? I thought, I…

  • my own “tiny” Facebook security leak

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    I started using a Facebook “Profile Badge” here on this blog quite a while ago. Today I noticed, that all my Facebook status updates got shown here on that Profile Badge in the right column of this blog. Believe me: I seriously hurried removing that field “Status updates” from my Facebook Profile Badge. To be…

  • I really love using vCards and profiles pictures from Xing

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    I “always” also “copy” them for my Google Mail address book, which gets synced with my iPhone’s address book. This really makes my life so much easier  – recognising resp. remembering people by their faces is so much easier. Update / 2010-06-16: I forgot to mention, that I always use Xing’s vCards for new contacts…

  • option and configuration processing

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    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/07/12/options-and-configuration.html Once again I came across this very nice and certainly very helpful article on O’Reilly’s perl.com. I personally really have been loving the Art of Command Line Processing for a very, very long time. During one of my last projects (it was actually mainly using p*th*n as programming language because of some rather weird…

  • comparison of web application frameworks on en.wikipedia.org

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    I was cleaning up my Google bookmarks, came across Maypole, tried to look it up, and came across a comparison of web application frameworks on en.wikipedia.org, that includes the perl approaches. My humble suggestion:members of the respective perl communities add resp. maintain their entries to / within that table. mojolicious came to my mind at…

  • more on web harvesting

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    Data Extraction for Web 2.0: Screen Scraping in Ruby/Rails, Episode 1 http://scrubyt.org (ruby) HPricot.com : “a swift, liberal HTML parser with a fantastic library” (ruby) http://brightplanet.com : “Pioneers in Harvesting the Deep Web” …  Update 2010-06-05/06: One night later I am still very impressed by scrubyt, and I rather want to try it on a…