Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
I have a first generation Asus EEE PC (the 701 model) that I haven't really used much, mainly because I never got around to installing a more full featured Linux distribution on it than the one comes installed by default. I originally wanted it as a small portable machine to hack Factor and other languages on. Tonight I had a... more →
The Haskell system GHC has libraries that provide the ability to compile Haskell code and dynamically load it into a running Haskell program. A library that provides this functionality is hs-plugins. Unfortunately hs-plugins doesn't work with the latest GHC release, 6.10.1. There is an API to the internals of GHC that allows implementing runtime compilation and loading. The api is... more →
Update 19/Nov/2008: This is currently under discussion in the WHATWG and the W3C bug has been marked "won't fix". For now, cross domain usage is fine. This is a heads up for a change to the HTML5 media elements that may break existing usage. If you use <video> or <audio> then you may need to make changes to the way... more →
I did some minor tweaks to tinyvid.tv recently. I added the ability to add comments to video pages, and add feedback on the site. This uses Intense Debate, a third party commenting engine. On the video front I added a page to return a random video from those available. The video pages themselves show the duration, download progress and current... more →
Radio New Zealand have released their first open source project. It's an audio player for websites, written in JavaScript. The source is hosted on github. The player uses the <audio> element if the browser supports it. more →