Category Archives: programming
Fast XML parsing with Ruby
One of the first things I needed to do while building the GeeQE iPhone application was process the CC data dump from Stack Overflow. The dump contains XML files representing tables from Stack Overflow with the largest file being posts.xml weighing in at 1.2G as of September. I decided it would be pretty easy to [...]
RFID Reader USB Prototyping Kit
I recently won a programming contest that netted me a gift card for ThinkGeek and not knowing what else to do I strolled the site looking for something interesting to use the gift card on. Eventually I ran into the RFID Experimentation Kit they have and decided that was what I needed. I have been [...]
iPhone Windowed HTTP Live Streaming Using Amazon S3 and Cloudfront Proof of Concept
This post should be seen as a proof of concept. I'm working on creating a more concise and easier to use package of everything covered here but I felt like getting the knowledge out sooner rather than later would be of help to people looking for a way to do this. If you are interested [...]
iPhone HTTP Streaming with FFMpeg and an Open Source Segmenter
With the release of the iPhone OS 3 update came the ability to do live streaming. There are a few types of streaming and each requires a certain encoding and segmentation. I've put together a cheat sheet on how I went about building a static stream using FFMpeg and an example segmenter that someone has [...]
10 Tips for BlackBerry Development
Over time I've gathered up some nice tips I think would help get someone started developing applications for the BlackBerry so I decided to pull some of the more interesting ones together into the following list. The Eclipse plugin makes life much easier so use it. If you are used to Intellij IDEA then try [...]
Using Ruby and HTTParty to consume web services the easy way
Web services seem to be multiplying like rabbits these days. For a good sampling of just how many there are check out the Programmable Web API list. In general it is pretty easy to consume basic REST web services but after you have done it enough it starts getting old. Thankfully for those of us [...]
SOAP on the Google App Engine platform
I generally don't recomend using SOAP instead of REST but I have been required to use SOAP so much now that I think it is inevitably going to be a requirement for a long time for certain projects. So when I noticed a question on stack overflow about using SOAP on the Google App Engine [...]
C# custom SOAP header
While working on an SOAP service I needed to create a number of clients for different languages. This would normally not be that big of a challenge except that the SOAP service had custom headers for doing authentication. Because of the complexity in setting up Axis to use WS-Security the choice was made to do [...]
Anonymous functions in PHP
I ran into this and found it interesting. Someone has added support for anonymous functions in PHP. With the patch you can now do stuff like: Before you had to use a funky function generation call. Tags: php
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