Peter Krantz - A blog about technology, visualization, music and unmanned vehicle experiments

Rails vs Grails vs Django models

Coming back to Rails after being away from some time in Django land I discovered a huge difference in how Rails and Django treats your models…

Remixing Youtube

An interesting approach to chains of copyright but these are really interesting. None of the participants were involved in making these songs. At the same time all of them were. A guess is that remixes like these will become more and more popular. Where can I buy these songs? Who will get paid? More information [...]

Solving Project Euler Problems With Ioke

For those of you that have been following Ola Bini’s work on Ioke, the dynamic language for the JVM, I am happy to report that the current release 0.1.1 is usable enough to solve Project Euler problems with. I wanted to learn more about Ioke and the best way to learn a new language is to use it on your own. So, here is some example Ioke code for some of the simpler Project Euler problems.

Integrating Yahoo Search in a Django site in 5 easy steps

I have been experimenting with various search options for the eutveckling.se site for a while. Google Custom Search is nice and very fast, but the number of ads appearing in the search result page makes it difficult for users to separate result items from ads. (Update: I am sticking with Google Custom Search until I [...]

Twitter synchronicity

Everyone is celebrating this friday in a different way, apparently:

What Sun Should Do

Tim Bray has an interesting post titled What Sun Should Do where he lists some suggestions. I have been thinking about Sun for a while and how my own image of the company has changed over the years. A long time ago I was working for Cambridge Technology Partners (later acquired by Novell). We did [...]

The Gnostic Nihilist

Modelling by Niklas Lindström who also knows a lot about SPARQL, RDF and Brilliance.