http://simonwillison.net/2009-08-07T15:47:00+00:00Simon Willison2009-08-07T15:47:00+00:002009-08-07T15:47:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Aug/7/something/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.mechanicalcat.net/richard/log/Python/Something_I_m_working_on.3">Richard Jones: Something I&#x27;m working on...</a></strong></p> Python’s with statement appears to provide just enough syntactic sugar to create some really interesting DSL-style APIs—here’s a very promising example for laying out GUI applications. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dsl">dsl</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gui">gui</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/richard-jones">richard-jones</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/with">with</a></p>

2009-01-08T19:04:24+00:002009-01-08T19:04:24+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/8/irc/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.metabrew.com/article/how-we-use-irc-at-lastfm/">How we use IRC at Last.fm</a></strong></p> With IRCCat, an elegant Java IRC bot that accepts Twitter-like messages to a network port (generally sent using netcat) and directs them to a user or channel. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/irc">irc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/irccat">irccat</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/java">java</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nc">nc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/netcat">netcat</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/richard-jones">richard-jones</a></p>

2008-10-16T14:16:18+00:002008-10-16T14:16:18+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/16/millionuser/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-application-with-mochiweb-part-1/">A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb, Part 1</a></strong></p> Richard Jones explores Mochiweb, Erlang and linux kernel tuning for building a high performance comet server. Does this mean real-time web features are coming to last.fm? <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/comet">comet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/erlang">erlang</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mochiweb">mochiweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/realtimeweb">realtimeweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/richard-jones">richard-jones</a></p>