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Re: “The more people do, the more society develops, the more problems arise.”

JoelHughes — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:35:07 -0000

Sounds good! Send an email to rudenoise[at]gmail[dot]com and I'll give you my details

Re: Web development is changing to meet mobile needs

JoelHughes — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:42:38 -0000

I take your point Travis, but still think mine is valid. I'll expand further on this in a future post: mobile use, so far, focusses on apps that can run in the background on user's mobiles and are easily accessible as native applications.

Technologies like Nokia-WRT/Ovi-SDK and Opera Web Widgets will leverage the best of both worlds.

I think a key difference between mobile and desktop is the lack of screen space preventing you from keeping multiple browser tabs/windows open continuously.

And, I-phone/Android apps wont disappear when HTML5 becomes standard; creating APIs that allow others to customise the service to any platform seems like sound logic (it allows you to adapt to what ever takes off).

Re: Which Language Combination?

JoelHughes — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:02:23 -0000

A few comments on this article over on Hacker News

Re: Goodbye Browsers: What Next?

JoelHughes — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:31:23 -0000

More good discussion over at Hacker news

Re: Goodbye Browsers: What Next?

JoelHughes — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:38:26 -0000

You're absolutely right about G.Reader and the browser, what I really meant to illustrate was that the standard HTML site may be dying rather than the browser (although I do think being able to deliver content and services into other platforms will become more important).

Re: Erlang FizzBuzz Showdown (pt2)

JoelHughes — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:07:23 -0000

Thanks, but as stated in Part 1: this was more to aid learning rather than using built in functionality (which I certainly will in future) - also the range function is modified to receive higher order functions, not sure that can be done with lists:seq?

Re: Erlang FizzBuzz Showdown (pt2)

JoelHughes — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:04:21 -0000

The "From < To" is simply to stop an infinite loop if the function was called backwards e.g. range(5,1).

Re: Erlang FizzBuzz Showdown (pt2)

JoelHughes — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:23:29 -0000

Thanks Matt, I didn't know that short cut - pretty handy!

Re: Erlang FizzBuzz Showdown (Pt 1)

JoelHughes — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:17:39 -0000

Thanks Daniel, I was aware of the lists module but chose not to use it in order to cover the basics of tail-recursion (and compare the implementation with Python/PHP/Ruby).

I hope that clarifies it a bit.