Simon Willison’s Weblog

Richard Jones: Something I’m working on... Python’s with statement appears to provide just enough syntactic sugar to create some really interesting DSL-style APIs—here’s a very promising example for laying out GUI applications.

# 7th August 2009, 3:47 pm / python, richard-jones, with, gui, dsl

How we use IRC at Last.fm. With IRCCat, an elegant Java IRC bot that accepts Twitter-like messages to a network port (generally sent using netcat) and directs them to a user or channel.

# 8th January 2009, 7:04 pm / netcat, nc, irccat, irc, lastfm, richard-jones, java

A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb, Part 1. Richard Jones explores Mochiweb, Erlang and linux kernel tuning for building a high performance comet server. Does this mean real-time web features are coming to last.fm?

# 16th October 2008, 2:16 pm / comet, lastfm, richard-jones, mochiweb, erlang, realtimeweb