Dewald Botha
open source web thoughts
Archive for December, 2008
serve maps, DIY style
Dec 19th
in this week i had lows and downs. i realised once again why the open source community has such a long way to go still. i was tasked to put together a ‘demo-able’ map server with client.
after about two days of reading i noticed there might be much more to google maps than just a couple of javascript command called to place a marker. mapping, and most important, correct, standards based mapping is a beast.
and i will show you how to tame it how to make it more tame…
putting the ‘errrrrrr’ in erlang
Dec 10th
so for a while i’ve been trying to do a small something, anything in erlang. got myself pragmatic programming in erlang, setup yaws on my ubuntu machine and downloaded an erlang web framework called erlyweb that seemed to glow with potential.
so, its been about 2 weeks, my fascination with erlang was as short lived as a teenage holiday romance. the concurrent language which would probably topple all others if the overheads weren’t so much. erlang has a huge learning curve, don’t think just cause you dabble in a bit of ruby you will pick up this language in one go
i’m sure it will More >