Author Archives: eoinprout

In my previous rant about the cost of the mobile Internet I neglected to mention that I was talking about 2G or less networks. 3G is an entirely different beast. Tom Raftery in his blog gives the low down on … Continue reading →

The Coming of Gmail When Google released GMail they eroded the two primary advantages of the desktop email client, Storage capacity and POP access. Before GMail, web based email restricted users storage capacity to a couple of megabytes, users could … Continue reading →

Hot off the presses RESTful Web Services by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby has just been delivered to me, I can’t wait to get stuck in. I’ll post a review as soon as I can.

REST reminds me of a quote, “Simplicity is a Function of Insight”. When I first heard about REST way back in 2004 , I was stunned by its simplicity, particularly in comparison to how SOAP is abused (remind to tell … Continue reading →

Conclusive proof of my theory that the Google search engine is intelligent, as defined by the Turing test The results of the query just need to be re-formatted. What is the answer to life the universe and everything ? Look … Continue reading →

Review: Lazarus: Pascal and Delphi Rise Again An article reviewing Lazarus, An opensource Delphi Clone. There are some instructions for installing on Unbuntu. (tags: Delphi opensource)

Yes! Regular Expressions are simple once you learn the grammar, and thats also the biggest problem with them, unless you learn the grammar, Regular Expressions look like the gibberish of some dark art, And unless you actually sit down and … Continue reading →

Open Source Alternative – Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software “Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software” This site list Commerical software and The Open Source Allternatives (tags: opensource) Open Source Delphi – Lazarus Project :: Write … Continue reading →

One of the tools I used to construct the train time table service was mod_rewrite. mod_rewrite can change URLs on the fly based on any rewriting rules you want to apply. so instead of ../trains/Trains.php?from=Cork&to=Cobh we now have ../trains/Cork/Cobh Much … Continue reading →

Ryan Tomayko “Ryan Tomayko’s brain: bookmarks to stuff recently reaching his brain, summaries of rants and raves leaking out of his brain, and the occasional article or essay.” an excellent site with some nice articles on REST (tags: blogs REST)