Simon Willison’s Weblog

Richard Jones: Something I’m working on... 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.

# 7th August 2009, 3:47 pm / gui, python, richardjones, with

How we use IRC at Last.fm. 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.

# 8th January 2009, 7:04 pm / irc, irccat, java, lastfm, nc, netcat, richardjones

A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb, Part 1. 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?

# 16th October 2008, 2:16 pm / comet, erlang, lastfm, mochiweb, realtimeweb, richardjones