Comments for The Ramblings of a Hatter http://www.joshual.me.uk Joshua Lock's Blog Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:50:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Delicious Bookmarks for June 22nd through July 12th by Ivan http://www.joshual.me.uk/2010/07/delicious-bookmarks-for-june-22nd-through-july-12th/comment-page-1/#comment-17140 Ivan Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:50:52 +0000 http://www.joshual.me.uk/?p=337#comment-17140 I read your "Sharing Links" post and thought that this new app I built would be perfect for you and people like you (i.e. folks who don't take full advantage of delicious's social bookmarking features). I made Linkstream (http://lnkstrm.com) to be a really fast (user experience-wise) alternative to Delicious. It ties into Facebook so you don't need to create any additional accounts. If you like it, let me know :) I read your “Sharing Links” post and thought that this new app I built would be perfect for you and people like you (i.e. folks who don’t take full advantage of delicious’s social bookmarking features). I made Linkstream (http://lnkstrm.com) to be a really fast (user experience-wise) alternative to Delicious. It ties into Facebook so you don’t need to create any additional accounts. If you like it, let me know :)

]]> Comment on Mojo Hacking by The Ramblings of a Hatter › Blunderground http://www.joshual.me.uk/2010/05/mojo-hacking/comment-page-1/#comment-17058 The Ramblings of a Hatter › Blunderground Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:18:31 +0000 http://www.joshual.me.uk/?p=289#comment-17058 [...] I wrote about doing some hacking for the Palm WebOS to create a tube app for K. It’s now in a reasonably [...] […] I wrote about doing some hacking for the Palm WebOS to create a tube app for K. It’s now in a reasonably […]

]]> Comment on Mojo Hacking by Joshua http://www.joshual.me.uk/2010/05/mojo-hacking/comment-page-1/#comment-16948 Joshua Sat, 08 May 2010 11:25:14 +0000 http://www.joshual.me.uk/?p=289#comment-16948 Fret not, there's plenty of opportunity left for over-engineering in the extra features! Your situation sounds similar to what the TFL offer us here, they have public "sample" API's (i.e. useless) and for anything else get in touch. Fortunately some enterprising person provides an API and feeds of all the data I need by scraping the TFL site and publishing it under a CC license (http://tubeupdates.com/). Saves me a job. ;-) We have rumblings here about making the output of tax payers money free for the tax payers, software developed for the government should be open source, API's should be free to use, etc, etc. Of course it's all just empty promises until it happens. I'd like to think if you tried to negotiate they would be receptive to an open source developer? Though if nothing else it's an extra wall to climb over :-/ Fret not, there’s plenty of opportunity left for over-engineering in the extra features!

Your situation sounds similar to what the TFL offer us here, they have public “sample” API’s (i.e. useless) and for anything else get in touch. Fortunately some enterprising person provides an API and feeds of all the data I need by scraping the TFL site and publishing it under a CC license (http://tubeupdates.com/). Saves me a job. ;-)

We have rumblings here about making the output of tax payers money free for the tax payers, software developed for the government should be open source, API’s should be free to use, etc, etc. Of course it’s all just empty promises until it happens.

I’d like to think if you tried to negotiate they would be receptive to an open source developer? Though if nothing else it’s an extra wall to climb over :-/

]]> Comment on Mojo Hacking by Jussi Kukkonen http://www.joshual.me.uk/2010/05/mojo-hacking/comment-page-1/#comment-16947 Jussi Kukkonen Sat, 08 May 2010 10:34:08 +0000 http://www.joshual.me.uk/?p=289#comment-16947 > After several iterations I realised > that the easiest way to have a > pannable map was just to load the > map into an and have that > inside a Mojo Scroller widget. What, no overengineering when given the chance? Are you getting lazy? :) On the subject of public transport data/apps: I've been thinking of doing an app on top of the local route planner API here (http://www.reittiopas.fi), but unfortunately their definition of open interfaces is the usual: "Development and testing free of charge, anything else negotiated separately". :/ I could just say "well, it's their loss" but the reality of course is that it's my loss and the loss of every other tax payer here... > After several iterations I realised
> that the easiest way to have a
> pannable map was just to load the
> map into an and have that
> inside a Mojo Scroller widget.

What, no overengineering when given the chance? Are you getting lazy? :)

On the subject of public transport data/apps: I’ve been thinking of doing an app on top of the local route planner API here (http://www.reittiopas.fi), but unfortunately their definition of open interfaces is the usual: “Development and testing free of charge, anything else negotiated separately”. :/

I could just say “well, it’s their loss” but the reality of course is that it’s my loss and the loss of every other tax payer here…

]]> Comment on Functionally and parenthetically curious by Joshua http://www.joshual.me.uk/2010/04/functionally-and-parenthetically-curious/comment-page-1/#comment-16842 Joshua Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:42:10 +0000 http://www.joshual.me.uk/?p=276#comment-16842 I believe what you're thinking is correct so long as you change the impossible in "is impossible to write a function that has side effects" to more difficult. My understanding is that you can write code however you want in most languages, including Haskell, but that they encourage a particular style. I believe what you’re thinking is correct so long as you change the impossible in “is impossible to write a function that has side effects” to more difficult.
My understanding is that you can write code however you want in most languages, including Haskell, but that they encourage a particular style.

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