come, come nuclear bomb
Everything is going to go to shit at some unspecified point in the future.
latest yak facts and grues in the news
more from the weblog
PHP 5.3: The change America needs
PHP 5.3 will include namespace support! Finally! Other things, too.
assemble the ways
Shoplifters, Unite is now iPhone-friendly!
oh stewardess, I speak five
Hooray, chompy 3 is out! Plus: How to get HTML 5 tags to render in all the popular browsers, including Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer.
GET action
For reasons of aesthetics and user friendliness, logouts are initiated by simply clicking on a link. This is a problem, however, because clicking on a link causes a GET request, and GET requests are supposed to be idempotent; that is, they are not supposed to generate side effects. The proper HTTP method for logouts, therefore,…
latest wiki updates
backwater
Backwater is the software which powers chompy. It spiders and aggregates the following sources: Atom/RSS feeds Weblogs Linklogs Comment feeds Tumblr blogs Twitter status feeds Flickr photostreams It produces valid, sanitized output in HTML 5 and Atom.
Summary: we're sailing at the edges of time
backwater testing
Most testing of backwater is performed by using the standard Python unittest library. The goal here is to quickly spot regressions when code changes are made or dependencies are upgraded. Test cases are crossed off as they're implemented. Manual testing Put together a list of sanity test sources and feeds to run backwater against. …
Summary: linked to backwater article, marked off some completed tests
Tumblr API client
AKA tumblr.py or tumblrapi. This is a Tumblr API client for use by Python programs. It currently only supports the read methods of the Tumblr API, not the write methods. Source code can be found at GitHub. It is currently used by backwater, which powers chompy.net. …
Summary: added GitHub link
News