http://blech.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ batteries not included en Vox Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:36:22 +0000 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/happy-new-year-im-leaving-vox.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/happy-new-year-im-leaving-vox.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/happy-new-year-im-leaving-vox.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:36:22 +0000 (With apologies to Samuel.) Hi, I must be going. I'm running into more and more issues that stop me being happy posting here. • Data ownership My other hosted blog is on Tumblr. Unlike Vox, they let you use a custom domain so that you control... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/happy-new-year-im-leaving-vox.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff2190109d0fad6c6000f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> api blogging movable type atom vox data portability http://blech.vox.com/library/post/where-what-when.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/where-what-when.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/where-what-when.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:36:56 +0000 When I posted about lib-flickr-minimal, I noted that the newly-launched flickr.places.placesForUser method made a more interesting demo of data you could fetch when authenticated than, say, showing a user's most recent private photos. Evidently th... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/where-what-when.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff2190109d0780d56000e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> design flickr api maps programming javascript graphic design location appjet geowanking where what when http://blech.vox.com/library/post/a-flickr-machine-tag-browser.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/a-flickr-machine-tag-browser.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/a-flickr-machine-tag-browser.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:02:17 +0000 A few weeks ago, when I was finally prompted to write up my EXIF to machine tags script, I parenthetically remarked that ways of getting all predicates for a namespace, and values for a namespace (at least within a given user's photos), would hav... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/a-flickr-machine-tag-browser.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff2190109d0f6aff2000f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> flickr source machine tags github write up http://blech.vox.com/library/post/google-app-engine-and-remote-data-caching.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/google-app-engine-and-remote-data-caching.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/google-app-engine-and-remote-data-caching.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:49:23 +0000 Aral Balkan is trying to run the website for his conference on Google App Engine, the same platform that snaptrip uses. In October, he posted twice on Twitter: Great, you have no control over how Google App Engine caches data requests. Pulling in ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/google-app-engine-and-remote-data-caching.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff21900fae8e4a398000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> web development caching twitter google app engine http://blech.vox.com/library/post/victoria_line.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/victoria_line.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/victoria_line.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:33:18 +0000 A decade ago, when the Jubilee Line was extended from Green Park to Stratford, there were plenty of glossy books published, examining the design and architecture of the twelve stations that made up the extension. Deservedly so, too; one, Foster's ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/victoria_line.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff219010980bd5a0c000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> design underground architecture london tube engineering tiling victoria line http://blech.vox.com/library/post/safari-spyware-and-certificates.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/safari-spyware-and-certificates.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/safari-spyware-and-certificates.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:18:41 +0000 Last week Safari 3.2 was released, with the usual minimal release notes: "This update includes stability improvements and is recommended for all Safari users." The security notes were somewhat more forthcoming, but even there, not everything is co... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/safari-spyware-and-certificates.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff2190109d0effc70000f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> apple safari web development google firefox security google chrome ev ssl http://blech.vox.com/library/post/flickr-exif-machine-tags.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/flickr-exif-machine-tags.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/flickr-exif-machine-tags.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:00:36 +0000 Last week Kellan from Flickr published my interview on code.flickr. I'm still somewhat amazed that they chose me to ask, but then I'm also pleased at how much people are liking snaptrip, and I'm happy to see my words in print, as it were. I actua... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/flickr-exif-machine-tags.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff2190109814a3d5f000d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> flickr perl photography api code interview exif machine tags http://blech.vox.com/library/post/photos-recently-added-on-groupr.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/photos-recently-added-on-groupr.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/photos-recently-added-on-groupr.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:37:16 +0000 I've finally launched a new version of groupr that includes a view that I've wanted for ages: recent photos in your groups. Like this, in fact: The obvious inspiration for this is Flickr's own recent photos from your contacts page, which, as ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/photos-recently-added-on-groupr.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff219010980b41b4d000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> flickr photography api flickr api groupr ajax join api join http://blech.vox.com/library/post/lib-flickr-minimal.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/lib-flickr-minimal.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/lib-flickr-minimal.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:03:28 +0000 groupr (my little JavaScript application that gives users an overview of their Flickr group membership) needs to be able to communicate with Flickr. That's really not hard; getting the most recent public photos posted by a user can be done trivial... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/lib-flickr-minimal.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff21900fad6b90b2f0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> library flickr development javascript code example groupr appjet geowanking http://blech.vox.com/library/post/appjet-zimki-and-groupr.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Paul Mison) http://blech.vox.com/library/post/appjet-zimki-and-groupr.html?_c=feed-rss http://blech.vox.com/library/post/appjet-zimki-and-groupr.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:35:55 +0000 Long-time readers here may remember groupr. (If you don't, it was a small web application that loaded the photos in your Flickr groups, something that, oddly, you can't do on Flickr itself.) I wrote it at the beginning of 2007 for Fotango's Zimki ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://blech.vox.com/library/post/appjet-zimki-and-groupr.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d985ff21900fa96a59e500002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> flickr web development javascript zimki groupr server side javascript appjet app engine ssjs reasonably smart