Just been having some fun hacking around with the OpenSocial API using hi5 (some social network that I’d never heard of.) Somewhat embarrassingly for Google, all requests for developer sandbox access for Orkut (which OpenSocial also runs on) are manually approved and therefore couldn’t happen on a Sunday.
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Snowy St Paul’sI’m at Google’s OpenSocial Hackathon at the BT building at St Paul’s. Pretty cool. |
Highlight of lightening talksDavid Jones just edited the source to the unix command |
Operating systemsAll operating systems tend to Unix, except Red Hat which tends towards Windows 98. Not second edition. Matt Trout |
Second BBC gemThe system that the BBC uses is to not just straight optimise the code, instead they develop a stats system and use that to establish a target, then optimise. Which makes a lot of sense even if the stats take more CPU time. |
At a BBC mobile talkThere is a comment in the BBC mobile webpage XSLT that says:
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Only at a Python talk“Where would we get that, the cheese shop?” |
Next set of talks
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I’m feeling luckyJust won a Google t-shirt :) |
OptimisationBrian McCaulay when asked if a regex is the best way to solve the classic balanced brackets problem: “Well the most efficient way to do anything is to write the XS code for it.” |
