Archive for February, 2009

Emacs, Guile, JavaScript, oh my!

  • February 23rd, 2009
  • Posted in Emacs

Let's create Parrot (but this time for real). Crazy? Let's have ECMAScript as the first language to program it. Crazier? Let's have Emacs as the first application to run on it. Insanity? Andy Wingo doesn't think so. Can't wait![ READ MORE ]

Turning Firefox into a screenshot server with MozRepl

In October I introduced custom interactors and someone asked what can be done with them other than application inspection.

Here's a practical application that turns Firefox into a screenshot server. It lets you request e.g. http://localhost:4242/screenshot/http://en.wikipedia.org and receive a PNG screenshot of Wikipedia homepage. (Instructions to run it are at the bottom.)

Features and things to note:[ READ MORE ]

Seven things you may want to ignore^W^W^W^Wmay not know about me

  • February 4th, 2009
  • Posted in Other

I tried to pretend I didn't notice but when tag count reached four it became difficult. So here's my “seven facts”. But first, the Rules:

  • Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
  • Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
  • Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
  • Let them know they've been tagged.

That said... [ READ MORE ]

FOSDEM countdown

  • February 4th, 2009
  • Posted in Other

Only three days left before FOSDEM!

If you, dear Reader, who have stoically endured my writing so far, are coming to the event, please leave a comment or send a mail, I'd certainly like to meet you for some important algorithm implementation.[ READ MORE ]