Halliburton Bounces Boing Boing

Yahoo Syndicating Shopping

A revved-up version of the Shopping API Yahoo made available today on its Developer Network offers commercial clients product search, price comparison, ratings & reviews, and shopping browsing too.

Reuse or Write New?

Sometime last summer I was involved in a fairly complicated Perl project. It was one of those "Well, it's just like the thing you did for X, but now we need it for Y and Z".

Simple Schedule

I often get asked for web-based scheduling programs. I've done quite a few of them over the years, sometimes using scripts available from the web, but more often writing my own simply because I don't like modifying other people's code.