Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
Ur/Web makes it easy to write web applications that have HTML forms and handle the posted data. It gets a bit trickier if you have a POST handler that does not have an HTML form in the web application but is instead called by an external service. The following is a function that handles a POST request field containing a... more →
I've been admiring Ur/Web from afar for a while now and I've decided to dive into it and try it out on a project. Ur/Web is described at the website as: more →
When I changed to using the Chromium YCbCr color conversion code I didn't use the code that scales the video during the conversion as there was no infrastructure in place to do this at the time. What this meant was we'd do the YCbCr conversion on the original image size and then later, during rendering, scale this using the browser's... more →
I wrote previously about using the ATS programming language to safely use C libraries. I've recently been using ATS in a couple of projects and have had to access a few more C libraries. This post goes through a few more ways ATS can be used to make it harder to incorrectly use C libraries by making some classes of... more →
I recently added the ability to donate to TinyVid using bitcoins. The bitcoin website describes bitcoin as 'a peer-to-peer network based digital currency'. Bitcoins are a 'virtual' currency. There are no physical coins involved. It's very similar to virtual currency in online games where people outside the game trade it for physical money. The endpoints of a bitcoin transaction are... more →