Hmmm, think my app is network I/O bound? EJBs are great!
$ time ./run.sh
real 139m37.320s
user 8m13.141s
sys 1m53.364s
Geekery
What do you do when your college plays at 2pm and you are stuck at work with no TV around? You write a CGI to grab screenshots from your TV so you can watch it on a webpage, of course.
#! /bin/sh
echo Content-type: image/jpeg
echo
mplayer -frames 1 -vo jpeg -nosound /dev/video >/dev/null 2>&1
cat 00000001.jpg
Release
My jukebox program is now official.
Opaque
The only thing worse than reading XML is reading W3C XML documentation: The xsl:namespace-alias element declares that the namespace URI bound to the prefix specified by the stylesheet-prefix attribute is an alias for the namespace URI bound to the prefix specified by the result-prefix attribute.
Ah, glad they cleared that up.
My new project
What do you do when you have 300 CDs ripped and encoded on your living room PC, an affinity for perl, and two hours of commute time on the bus every day? What else — you make a remote-controlled kiosk style jukebox. Here’s a peek at the TV interface:
Silly
When searching isn’t enough, trizzle sizzearching, biotch! Word.
404
Well my website is down again so you don’t get to see the artifact I discovered until it comes back up. Maybe it is time to start paying for a hosting provider.