Thursday, January 31, 2002

Micah wants a script to make the insertion of his google search easy.  Here ya go.  Drop this in your {radio_root}/macros folder, and then in your template insert the text "<%googleSearch()%>".  You'll be set.  It looks like this: My usernum is 564.  I can remember it because it's the first three digits of my parents' phone number.  I have no friggin' idea what Micah's is. I would like the quoted links thing that I had on my Manila weblog.  Maybe I could write a quickLink tool.  It wouldn't be as easy as simply quoting text and having it show up as a link, but you could insert something like <%quickLink(Micah)%> in your post and you'd get the link. 11:28:37 PM     Dave has a problem with the overhead of .NET web service handlers written in C#.  He'd like to see the following: String doHello(String name) {    return "Hello, " + name; } Dave is looking at web services from a scripting perspective.  C# (and Java and C++ and others) are not scripting languages; they're programming languages.  The difference, IMHO, is that scripting languages operate on a platform, be it a browser or another app, while programming languages define platforms.  I wouldn't want to write a complex program in UserTalk or JavaScript, but I sure wouldn't want to manipulate Radio using C++.  There's some grey in the distinction, but that's how I think of it.  And there's some overhead inherent in a programming environment that isn't there in a scripting environment. However, the .NET handler has some other code wrapping the above.  Now, I'm no C# developer, but I am a Java developer, and I think a class declaration isn't the far side of reasonable.  Also, you've got to somehow tell the runtime environment that the above is available as a web service handler for security reasons. 6:44:58 PM     Have you googlewhacked? [C|Net News] 12:53:38 AM

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