Code and Whatnot

Has anyone noticed terrible performance from Yahoo! Mail? The address book isn’t loading readily for email address autocomplete as far as I can tell, and many normal operations are timing out. Having to resubmit emails is quite worrysome. Yahoo! News is also having hiccups; I noticed that headlines are failing to load […]

The Command
I’ve been thinking about turning this into a stored script that takes the revision number as an argument. For now, my motivation leaves it like this:
vim `svn log -v -r 6406:HEAD | egrep “^ *[AM].*task_[0-9]{4,}/” | sed ’s~^.*task_[0-9]\{4,\}/~~’ | uniq`
UPDATE:
uniq doesn’t work without sort. Here’s the version I’m using these days:
vim `svn […]

For me, on Mozilla, the current incarnation of Y!MB is working a lot faster than the first incarnation. I originally tried Beta for about an hour and decided it was just too slow to use. Now, I think I like it more than the old Yahoo! Mail. The only problem I currently […]

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/05/web_20_service_mark_controvers.html

UPDATE: This software has been released.
COMET
My boss wanted to watch the Apache access logs from a web page. And top, and mytop. My first solution, which worked (and still works) great, was using a simple COMET stream for each feed. Keeping a process open in php means waiting for output, so I […]