Category Archives: webdev

Middleware and Monorails

By rmp | Published: April 28, 2013

Middleware, the point-and-click programmer’s equivalent of Perl. Middleware, yet another layer of largely unnecessary abstraction.

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Charts from Tables with D3js and jQuery

By rmp | Published: April 19, 2013

I’ve been tinkering with D3js on and off for a couple of months now, purely for generating simple, inline charts in web pages, made from data already dumped into HTML tables. Doing this is easier than building, caching and referencing external bitmap (PNG, GIF or whatever) images with Gnuplot or GD::Graph and also simpler than [...]

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Another use for Selenium IDE

By rmp | Published: September 26, 2012

A dear friend of mine recently needed to recover all email from his mailbox. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, there are plenty of options in any sane mail application – export or archive mailbox, select-all messages and “Send Again”/Redirect/Bounce to another address or at the very worst, select-all and forward. Most of these options [...]

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Web Frameworking

By rmp | Published: March 31, 2008

It seems to be the wrong time to be reading such things, but over on InfoQ there’s a nice article introducing web development of RESTful services using Erlang and the Yaws high performance web server. I say “the wrong time” as this week has kicked off the “Advancing with Rails” course by David A. Black [...]

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