January 2010
2 posts
uploading to flickr with ruby
there’s been some serious bit rot in the flickr API libs for ruby. flickr is still suggesting this list of broken, abandoned libraries: flickr-ruby flickr.rb rflickr I found some random old blog posts about flickr_fu, and it seemed more OK but still unfinished, and still abandoned. But I’ve found that some good people have forked the project on github, and they have a version...
Jan 26th
on Parsing Expression Grammars
Co-worker Markus Roberts wrote: PEGs are, to my way of thinking, a beautiful sweet spot in grammar space, a worthy peer of limited-lookahead and regular expressions, but like these they cover a specific range of the problem space very well, if you take them on their own terms, and will fight you every step of the way if you don’t.  Trying to use a regular expression as if it was a broken way...
Jan 10th