berserk.org

I’m hoping this falls somewhere between not new but emerging, and totally new.
Here’s the idea.

It’s basically an evolution in web services. Well really in how they’re used, in respect to charging for software. It is something that for lack of a better term I’ll call affiliate-ware. I can give you a good […]

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And here’s how it goes. Everything about this is just good.
cmallory@jester: python
Python 2.1.3 (#1, Sep 19 2002, 13:15:46)
[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
Type “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> from xmlrpclib import Server
>>> server =
Server(”http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/xml-rpc/server.php”)
>>> print server.system.listMethods()
[’meerkat.getChannels’, ‘meerkat.getCategories’,
‘meerkat.getCategoriesBySubstring’, ‘meerkat.getChannelsByCategory’,
‘meerkat.getChannelsBySubstring’, ‘meerkat.getItems’,
’system.listMethods’, ’system.methodHelp’, ’system.methodSignature’]
>>> print server.system.methodHelp(”meerkat.getItems”)
Returns an array of structs of RSS items given […]

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So I’m delving into python, and wow. I was just talking with a friend about how great this language is, and I’ve just discovered how easy xml-rpc is with it. I assume it’s (xml-rpc) just as easy with other languages, but man.
Nothing like terrific api’s to get you coding.

My favorites so far are:
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Turns out it may not have been the power lines and perhaps just a power drain from the camera. Details here.

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