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- Enabling web-audio in Chrome
I haven’t realized that Chrome has a whole bunch of invisible experimental settings that you can turn on just by going to “about:flags“. Some of them will open up the musical capabilities of html5, which are pretty cool. Example, once you switch on the ‘web-audio‘ setting on Chrome, if you use a suitable […]
- Python web-parsing libraries
While continuing the interminable search for the ideal python editor, I run into three really useful libraries for scraping information off webpages: mechanize: Stateful programmatic web browsing in Python, after Andy Lester’s Perl module WWW::Mechanize scrape: Python module for web browsing and scraping BeautifulSoup: a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping I had a quick play with the […]
- A Sneak Preview of Wolfram Alpha
It’s the new brainchild of Stephen Wolfram, author of Mathematica. It does look impressive in my opinion – can’t wait to try it live (due to launch some time in may)! Defined as a Computational Knowledge Engine. It does an awful lot of number-crunching but looks more as a giant closed database than a distributed […]
- AJAX in Lisp with JQuery
I was asked to give an example of lisp+ajax, so once I prepared it I thought it could be of help to other people too :-) First of all, I am not a professional lisper at all, just got to know it a little during the last two years. The code I’m presenting here might […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
