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Monday, January 31, 2011

Twitter - Just Hype or Something Useful?

I guess most internet-savvy people have heard of Twitter, the micro-blogging platform. Essentially it allows you to share small snippets of information with other people.

What makes it interesting is the message length restriction it imposes. You have to fit you message just in 140 characters. That's even less than in a regular SMS (160 chars)! So how can that be useful in any way?

In this post I'm going to provide answers to this question. I'll also share my gripes with Twitter. Although it's quite a nice service, it does indeed have its flaws, at least from my perspective.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Personal Projects - jsopo + speccer + jswiki

Whoa! It has been a while since the last post. :) In this post I'm going to show you what I have been up to since the last one. I've been busy wrapping up certain commercial project that just went to a closed beta. I'm going to cover that in a later post in good detail.

In this post I'm going to focus on a few small projects of mine, namely jsopo, speccer and jswiki. jsopo, a precompiler, focuses on providing operator overloading for JavaScript. speccer is a testing tool for Python providing simplified assertion syntax. jswiki aims to become a hub for JavaScript related resources given there's a lot of interesting material but it's all spread around the web.