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An interesting (and very small) JSON parsing module for ruby. I’ve been looking for something better than passing it through a YAML library, but not as heavy (or as awkward to integrate with rails) as the various gems.
(tags: json parser rubyonrails)
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Make ruby-mysql create less garbage
This sounds like a pretty significant speed-up. It’s surprising the patch hasn’t been applied to the main library yet.
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New ruby/rails podcast. Not much in the first episode you can’t easily get from the blogs, and I’m subscribed to too many podcasts already, but might be of interest to some.
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O’Reilly Radar > Freebase Will Prove Addictive
This metaweb project sounds really interesting, allowing users to connect together a lot of data from disparate resources and inferring information from those connections. It’ll be interesting to see what their API looks like. (I’ll join my voice with tho
(tags: aggregation data semanticweb wiki)
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Simple 3D flying game implemented with AJAX. Really reminds me of a game (whose name I can’t remember) on old Acorn RISC OS machines which were really impressive when those machines came out. Funny to see it in a web browser.
(tags: ajax games javascript)
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US Presidential candidate John Edwards (or someone from his team) is using twitter
(tags: campaigning politics twitter)