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Remember Wolfram Alpha? API is here: htt…

kahwee — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:56:15 +0000

Remember Wolfram Alpha? API is here: http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/10/15/the-wolframalpha-api-has-arrived/

In a surprising move, Apple goes open so…

kahwee — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:37:17 +0000

In a surprising move, Apple goes open source on Grand Central Dispatch:

Despite being a unique, key marketing feature of Snow Leopard, Apple has decided to open the code behind Grand Central Dispatch under the liberal Apache 2.0 license.

Snow Leopard’s new Grand Central Dispatch feature, which serves as a system-wide mechanism for managing parallel task execution across multiple processor cores for developers, involves multiple components in the operating system.

The user-space implementation of the Grand Central Dispatch services API, called libdispatch, has been delivered as its own open source project, joining with other components that are part of projects Apple has already designated as open, including the kernel components in the Darwin OS XNU kernel and the blocks runtime that is part of the LLVM project.

Apple’s code giveaway was “something of a surprise,” according to MacResearch, a website covering the use of Apple technologies in the scientific research community, because the new feature of Snow Leopard “could be seen to give Apple a competitive edge in the new world of multi-core.” (Source: Apple Insider)

One thing great about Slicehost is it’s…

kahwee — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:34:38 +0000

One thing great about Slicehost is it’s DNS API. You can programmatically deploy new web sites. Save the need retype things field by field. And best of all it uses ActiveResource. It may seem lame but the reason why Ruby on Rails is installed in my computer is just because of ActiveResource. (It was just yesterday I really understand how ActiveResource work and that it is just REST being wrapped nicely and I can use PHP to do the same saving the Ruby learning.)