Category Archives: Technology
What I would like to see in the new Apple device (iSlate, iPod Tablet, iTouch, iPad, iTablet, iPhone Max)
Update Misses: no cameras, no GPS, no stylus, no SD If there is going to be an Apple Tablet there are a few features that I would like to see. These aren’t really predictions but more my limited view of … Continue reading
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Drastically reducing GC pause times for YQL
Update 2: JRockit Real Time 3.1.2 using -XgcPrio:deterministic performed even better than this configuration in testing though it is not yet an approved VM at Yahoo! we will continue to test with it. Update: One issue we still have is … Continue reading
Building OpenJDK 1.7.0 for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
I’m basing this blog entry on this reference page. There are only a few different things that you need to do so I will spell those out cleanly relative to what was previously needed: Grab the dependencies except for JIBX, … Continue reading
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Update your FireEagle location automatically from any browser
With all the talk of geolocation in the browser, I decided this afternoon to go ahead and make it really easy for anyone to automatically update their location in FireEagle by going to a single url from any browser. Depending … Continue reading
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Creating a JSON web service API for Find My iPhone
One of the really cool features of MobileMe and the new iPhone 3.0 OS is the ability for it to reach out and locate your iPhone at any time if you have that feature enabled. Right now Apple only makes … Continue reading
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4hoursearch – faster, simpler, more powerful using YQL
As you know the original 4hoursearch was built using Yahoo! BOSS, YUI and Python running on Google App Engine. Although Google App Engine is a very productive environment I was unhappy with it for a few reasons. It doesn’t feel … Continue reading
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YQL opens up 3rd-party web service table definitions to developers
The Yahoo! Query Language aspires to be the last web service API that the normal developer will ever have to learn. By default we implement 50+ tables that grab data both from Yahoo! web services, some 3rd party web services … Continue reading
Using JAX-RS with Protocol Buffers for high-performance REST APIs
One of the great things about the JAX-RS specification is that it is very extensible and adding new providers for different mime-types is very easy. One of the interesting binary protocols out there is Google Protocol Buffers. They are designed … Continue reading
Build your own mail analyzer for Mac Mail.app
You’ve probably read about things like Xoopit and Xobni for analyzing both online mail and your outlook mail. As it turns out, Apple has done something great in this regard that I think has been mostly overlooked. Mail.app stores all … Continue reading
Using JAX-RS (Jersey) to build a JPA/JAXB-backed JSON REST API
I’ve been looking for a while though to find that perfect combination of frameworks and libraries that would give me the expressive power that I want for building web applications — now I think I’ve found it. Continue reading
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