Monthly Archives: April 2009

Photo Inspiration

Written by skoch. Posted on April 24, 2009. Filed under photos. No comments.
I stumbled upon a few photography sites that I think are amazing. First, Excerpts From The Annals of Everyday Life (The Square America Snapshot Archive) which has a brilliant collection of old photos which essentially is what the title suggests: a snapshot of America from a bygone era. I could look all day. Second, I found Ultraviolett from [...]

Data Mining

Written by skoch. Posted on April 5, 2009. Filed under work. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
The current project at work had me tapping into the YouTube API. What I realized was that it wouldn’t be practical to have each client request a shit ton of thumbnails each time. So the quest to build a little system to cache the thumbs, say, once a day was a fun task. Basically a little [...]