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Wednesday, April 17 2002

From the "Oh, the duh-ness..." department : Net::Google.pm 0.4.2

It helps to remember to include all your .pm files in the MANIFEST. Enough said.

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The Internet Dictionary Project

"[Our] goal is to create royalty-free translating dictionaries through the help of the Internet's citizens. This site allows individuals from all over the world to visit and assist in the translation of English words into other languages. The resulting lists of English words and their translated counterparts are then made available through this site to anyone, with no restrictions on their use." Oh boy, this has Perl module written all over it. I found this while I was looking for a French language dictionary for a Dict server. Does anyone know if such a dictionary exists? Mostly, what I'd like is something that I can call from the command-line that returns the gender for a word... 



$> sexy-word chaise



[feminin] "De chair, she is beautiful."







$> sexy-word divan



[mascusin] "De couch, he is firm."
Such are the things you worry about when you live outside Quebec for seven years. Meanwhile, Jay Kominek has written a Dict server in Perl. A quick glance at the code suggests that writing Apache::SOAP::Dict would consist of little more than calling Dictionary.pm. Cool.

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I will update the long neglected xml-rss.js library, accordingly

see also : xml-rss.js

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Did the Earth move?

I don't have any issues with how my comments were reported, but just for thoroughness' sake, this is the unedited version of what I said. If nothing else, it will give credit where it is due for the zippy quote at the end of the article...

I'm not sure that the API, per se, will do much. It's got a pretty high hack-value and gee-whiz factor...

  • http://aaronland.net/weblog/archive/4210
  • http://www.decafbad.com/news_archives/000087.shtml#000087
  • http://interconnected.org/googlematic/

...but I doubt that it will make the Earth move.

Notwithstanding the fact that the search widget combined with the cache widget will return non-HTML documents, you sort of have to ask yourself : why wouldn't I search for web documents in a web browser?

On the other hand, it will probably give a big push towards making people more familiar and comfortable building sites/tools using distributed widgets.

See also : http://use.perl.org/~gnat/journal/4163

When asked to elaborate on that last bit :

It's sort of the same idea as the one that the "internet operating system" gang like to trumpet. For example, pulling in remote content or manipulating your own content via a remote function as a page (let's just imagine we're talking about the web) is being published [1].

You can sort of see this happening with the many publish/subscribe widgets that are popping up [2]. That is, there is a growing interconnectedness among pages, sites, applications.

I'm not sure I buy it, though. It's plenty cool but there are lots of problems that need to be worked out. All the same problems that plague popular websites (bandwidth, scaling, etc.) are going to plague popular web services and not everyone has a thousand servers like Google does[3].

Not to mention issues of reliability and the nagging sense that I think a lot of people have that it's just the carrot (cool-ness!) before the stick (micro-payments!)

Mostly I was just trying to say that being able to "plug" Google-ness in to your website will, if nothing else, provide an example of "distributed computing" that is not as abstract as those that have come before it.

  1. RSS feeds are a good example
  2. http://radio.weblogs.com/0100059/stories/2002/02/25/whatIsPublishAndSubscribe.html
  3. http://fyuze.com/api

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Me : google2blogger 1.0

Because it's true : all foo2bar utilities should be written in Perl. Maybe it's time to write a 2Blogger.pm framework. Maybe it's time to starting using DBI, instead of Storable, to store cache data. Maybe it's time to get a life...

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : philish

Used to describe something that bothers you to no end and makes you wish you had a gun to shoot them.
ex. That guy we saw yesterday--Lyphen?--what a philish turd! I wish he just dropped dead on the spot! Not only was he rude, but he also smelled awful!

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : beholden

Beholden \Be*hold"en\, p. a. [Old p. p. of behold, used in the primitive sense of the simple verb hold.] Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted. But being so beholden to the Prince. --Tennyson. web1913
beholden adj : under a moral obligation to someone [syn: {beholden(p)}] wn

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