Profile
This is the personal website of
Paul Annesley,
senior developer at
99designs
in
Melbourne, Australia.
You can follow Paul on Twitter.
Recent Bookmarks
- toto » Tiny blog engine in Ruby and Rack, uses flat git-managed content files containing YAML & ERB/Markdown, handles comments via disqus, leaves caching to HTTP.
- Machinarium » A puzzle point-and-click adventure game with a nice ambient soundtrack and a Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee feel about it. Implemented in flash, free demo.
- Semantic Versioning » Simple version number specification for systems which expose a public API. The format is major.minor.patch (e.g. 3.0.12); major indicates backwards incompatible, minor indicates backwards compatible, and 0.x.x indicates rapid development.
- The Go Programming Language » New programming language from Google: performance like C, dynamic like Python, concurrent like Erlang.
- node.js » Event driven network IO for V8 JavaScript.
- v8 JavaScript Engine » Google's JavaScript engine as seen in Chrome, runs standalone or embedded in C++
- jaml - GitHub » Jaml tries to emulate Ruby’s Haml library, making it easy to generate HTML in your JavaScript projects.
- proxymachine - GitHub » Awesome looking Ruby/EventMachine TCP proxy from GitHub that does content-based routing to a backend. Opens a proxy to a backend once the read buffer contains enough information for a ruby block to return the desired backend address.
People
- James Annesley » Maker and purveyor of fine jazz saxophone music in Melbourne, Australia
About Paul Annesley and This Site
This site is my personal blog and aggregation point, powered by all sorts of cool open source HTTP-speaking components including Ruby, Sinatra, rFeedParser, CouchDB, Tokyo Cabinet + Tokyo Tyrant, Thin, nginx and Varnish. Previous incarnations of this site have been powered by Django + Python, PHP, and even WordPress once upon a time.
I've worked with PHP5 (heavily object-oriented) since it was released, and recently switched from Subversion to Git, which was a system shock but well worth it. I've got a secret love for Ruby, Python and JavaScript, as well as a secret hate for PHP, but I don't let that get in the way of what needs to be done :)
Things I've Written Elsewhere
- 3 Things About Cookies You May Not Know
- pTest: PHP Unit Tester in 9 Lines Of Code
- Moonlight—Open Source Silverlight on Mono
- Unix Tools on Your Desktop—Not Just For Mac Users
- Besiege Your Web Application—Load Testing over HTTP
- Faster PHP Apps—Profile Your Code with Xdebug
- Faster Page Loads—Bundle Your CSS and Javascript
Interesting Announcements
Places I've Left Comments
- Web Fonts: Do Something Positive!
- Text Editor Saving Routines
- delay request handling for stupid crawlers
- Dates: Relative or Absolute?
- Web Development as Tag Soup
- The Great Dub-Dub-Dub Debate
- Your Session Has Timed Out
- Google's excanvas only works in quirks mode for IE8
- Firebug + Dijit tips
- Give Your Visitors a Rough Time