Came across this yesterday via Facebook groups. It really pisses me off when I’m playing catchup on web trends. At least 6 months behind with Lolcats.
Done a bit of Technoratiing. Haven’t really used it much before, it’s search sucks (too much garbage) but it’s aggregation/wisdom of crowd stuff looks useful. Anyway found what I’m looking for I think – BoingBoing.
Quality stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree. And there’s fuckin loads of them
Funny trader guy Jim Cramer obviously got caught the wrong side of the fallout over the ongoing credit collapse:
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Didn’t know this, but you can get delayed financial data from Google finance imported into their spreadsheets via built in functions.
One (big) limitation for me: No support for querying historical data, or at least some kind of time series logic for shifting data at end of day. Oh well, can’t have everything. But it does open up Google Finance to real programmatic querying (ie no screen scraping) via the spreadsheets API.
As good as this all is, still took me 2 days to work out they want decimal points expressed as commas…
Also a bug noted – multilanguage support all well & good, but I created my spreadsheet at work and our exit point to the interweb is in Germany, prompting Google to spew out text to me in the wrong language. Even forcing the matter with ‘&hl=en’ appended to the query string doesn’t work on the spreadsheet error msgs (I guess the ajax updates obviously don’t include what I stick on the page url).
Do I get a prize?
Update: Seems someone else wanted historical data too. I’ll do a bit of digging tomorrow…
Seen this a while back. Google’s patent search is my first dip into the primary evidence in this hotly contested topic, and after a few minutes browsing was a bit surprised at the apparent scale of some patents.
Reminded of it by an SEO article on Google’s new patent for it’s Timeline search made public this week, although the search has been available for use from Google Labs‘ Experimental search page for a while now.
I see Aptana is busy implementing php support to their Eclipse based dev environment. Coming from a java background, I am well used to the monstrous array of Eclipse styled IDEs. Aptana, ‘high level’ drag’n'drop designer tools from Tibco & BEA and of course Eclipse itself, I use them all in current work projects.
But I don’t like them. Any of them.
Primary reason is their slooooooooow code completion components. I’m sick to death of waiting on my stalled dev tool of choice to come back to life, while it tries to figure out just how many members there are in java.util.Date…. is it because Java on the desktop never quite took off amongst the developer community that someone sought revenge with the release of these painstakingly slow GUIs? And that’s before I even get started on Tibco’s Designer (used in their Business Works suite of BPM tools). I’ve been told by a Tibco guy to restart each time memory usage goes above 100 meg. Swing’s memory leaking after that played havoc with updating the drag n drop viewport, to the point where it just didn’t bother.
Whatever people’s view of web apps in the enterprise, what gets me is the guys who make the tools for everyone else are still stuck with such frankly inferior dev editors. Pass me my Textpad please…
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