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codejoust

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About codejoust

iain nash twitter.com/isiain

Recent public activity

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    Comment #16821153

    It looks like within the past 8 months or so that Facebook has changed to format of their data dumps to not truncate messages, as their previous data dumps were previously structur…

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    Comment #16746772

    I built a elasticsearch importer for fb messages and a simple web frontend that did this pretty well for many many megabytes of messages. Wouldn't mind cleaning it up if people wer…

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    Comment #10883023

    Was looking for some backgrojnd and found an overview presentation [pdf]: http://netlipse.eu/media/77918/11nwm-bratislava-lex-pepping-...

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    Comment #5630910

    We're using Tropo.com, pretty easy. Otherwise it's just mysql/mysqli/php/apache. Pretty straight forward.

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    Comment #3999057

    Something similar with syntax hilighting and sounds can be found at http://codetyper.tk/

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    Comment #3788590

    How meta? A poll to ask about the number of polls. One good thing about polls is they do bring a good discussion and a nice demographic insight, when they are not overused.

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    Comment #3438183

    How about using something like BSON to reduce overhead? (and writing it in C would help). http://bsonspec.org/

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    Comment #3438133

    Running wordpress and PHP, nonetheless. Wordpress isn't light on resources.

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    Comment #3437710

    1: You can turn off location data. 2: None of this is being stored, beyond a cookie. Of course, you can call back to the server with that data, but the server has your IP address, …

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    Comment #3437177

    Try using another database: I've implemented optional support for ipinfodb.com, however, the code is fairly modular to add another service. http://codejoust.github.com/session.js/i…

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    Comment #3436393

    I added in support for http://ipinfodb.com/ (see bottom of README) which might be better than Google's api, although you need to register for an API key. You might want to give tha…

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    Comment #3436359

    I thought about doing that. I've used a lot of coffeescript in the past, but I just didn't see it being a big advantage here. The biggest issue with using CoffeeScript here is that…

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    Comment #3435839

    Official demo: http://codejoust.github.com/session.js/

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    Comment #3435781

    I believe the earlier comments have merit, thus I've renamed the library.

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    Comment #3435654

    No. And the recently-posted paid visitor.js site does have a few advantages, most being that this is using pure javascript, while they have the server side doing most of the heavy …

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    Comment #3435627

    Google provides it as an extra for the JSAPI, no telling how long it will last, though.

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    Comment #3435510

    I liked the idea, and had already needed parts of such a library, so I put together some stuff and made a free/open-source version. https://github.com/codejoust/visitor.js

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    Comment #3435337

    I built a open-source version similar to this library for my own use using javascript browser checks and the google jsapi geocoding. It's on github at https://github.com/codejoust/…

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    Comment #3423065

    I've done a considerable amount of work in subprocess. It's API isn't amazing, but it does have quite a few great features and once you spend a little time with it really isn't too…

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