Facebook Technology Tasting – HipHop for PHP

while you’re waiting for Facebook to release their HipHop for PHP over on github, you might wanna watch this video having engineer Haiping Zhao giving a detailled introduction about the way HipHop transforms PHP-code into C++.

Tweetshirt – Your Tweet on a T-Shirt!

just in time for the weekend, here’s yet another mashup I’ve been working on lately. I guess the claim says it all: Tweetshirt – Your Tweet on a T-Shirt! (http://tweetshirt.me)
it’s pretty self-explanatory, just enter your Twitter-username, and choose the tweet you want printed on a shirt from your recent & favorite tweets. you may [...]

Charts.fm – fun with mashups…

few weeks ago I’ve been building this charts-based mashup together with a friend of mine.  since we now even managed to get some decent frontend-graphics from blackjune, I tought I might as well pitch it here before christmas…  

Charts.fm is based on playlists & user-votings of more than 2600 radio-stations (mostly US, although there’s [...]

Feedback Army – usability testing for the rest of us

just discovered Feedback Army, a service offering dirt-cheap website-usability-testing based on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. how does it work? you post the URL of the site tested alongside several open questions (f.e. “Describe in your own words: what’s the main purpose/functionality of the website?”, “Are there any browser-related issues, like f.e. slow responses?”) – Feedback Army automagically [...]

Wordpress – mobile optimization

since learning about ready.mobi earlier this week, I spent the better part of my evenings checking my own sites for mobile compliance – with, aehm, mixed results. for my wordpress-blogs I’ve been using a combination of iWPhone for iPhone-specific rendering, and  Wordpress Mobile Edition for all other mobile devices. since the latter only comes with [...]

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ZSFA — Rails Is A Ghetto –
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PHPTube goes Python, Java

I just found a nice litte christmas present in my inbox: Sylvain Boily from Puteaux, France has written a Python-port of my YouTube uploader PHPTube. earlier this year, James Schopp has ported the library to Java. now if only I’ld find some time to add edit-/delete-capabilities to PHPTube…
thanks a lot guys, it’s great to see [...]

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