The Burton Group published a report entitled The P-Languages: PHP, Perl, and Python for Enterprise Scripting yesterday. I’m quoted twice in the article. Page 11 (PHP in Web Development): Not only is PHP used extensively throughout the Web, it is also used by some of the busiest websites in the world. For example Yahoo!, which […]
Chaat
Ever since we moved up to the San Francisco Bay Area, one of my favorite places to eat has been Amber India Restaurant in Mountain View. I was delighted to find papri chaat and pav bhaji on the menu. My colleagues in India call it “Indian junk food”. I call it delicious. This past week’s […]
Battleground, MN
I just watched the 8-minute web video of Battleground Minnesota. It’s a Get Out the Vote documentary aimed at young voters which aired on public television last fall. We didn’t know why Gabriel had been so delinquent in updating his blog last year. We figured he was working on some other project. Now we know […]
La Fondue
Gabriel and Rachel are visiting from the Twin Cities, so we went out to dinner at La Fondue in Saratoga. Ben & Lisa arrived late, but there was plenty of cheese and chocolate leftover. We ordered a la carte since dipping vegetables in hot oil didn’t appeal to us (I suppose that phase of the […]
Ten years of Yahoo! Inc
The 10-year anniversary of Yahoo! Inc’s incorporation is this week. We’re having a party at work on Wednesday to celebrate. They put a big tent up on campus this morning. Apparently Sugar Ray is going be giving a private concert, and the weather has been threatening rain. Rumor has it that the www.yahoo.com site will […]
Perl or PHP modules for XLIFF?
Do you know of any good Perl or PHP modules for parsing XLIFF? I’ve gotten a couple of emails from folks asking about making a French version of my Jewish Calendar Tools website. They’ve volunteered to do all of the translation work themselves if I send them a file to be translated. Most of the […]
Cygwin vs. UWIN
I got an email last week from AT&T Labs saying that UWIN 4.0 had been released. I must’ve signed up for the uwin-announce mailing list a long time ago, because there hasn’t been a message sent to that list in over four years. Last I remember, UWIN 2.2 was hot off the presses during the […]
A new spin on Yellow Pages
A9 launched a beta of Yellow Pages this evening. They’ve got the same DHTML interactive map that Yahoo has, but differentiating feature is an image of every business listed. For example, one of my favorite LA restaurants is Real Food Daily. Apparently they acquired these images by driving trucks with digital cameras and GPS around […]
Ping
I’m still here.
Frequent Flyer
I got the following error message while trying to change an itinerary on the Southwest website: southwest.com What happened? This trip requires 35664 award coupons, but you only have 1 in the reservation. What you need to do: Go back to the previous page and modify your selection. Reference Number: 300067 Occurred: 12/21/04 10:40:38