Author Archives: geochap

About geochap

I'm a software developer living in Belfast, Maine

Structured Data and Search Engines: Schema.org

Posted on June 2, 2011 by geochap

It’s been a long time coming but the the big three (Google, Bing, Yahoo) are finally getting their structured data story together. The three have collaborated on a standard for encoding structured data within web pages and published their results … Continue reading →

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Node Buffers

Posted on May 3, 2011 by geochap

I’ve been doing some more work on my json-in-mysql module for node.js. One of the areas I’ve been looking at is performance. As is often the case with these things, I’ve found that when things take longer than I’d like, … Continue reading →

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First experiences with node.js

Posted on April 23, 2011 by geochap

I’ve been hearing about node.js for a while and have been wanting to play with it. Node is all about server-side javascript and async I/O. It’s built around Google’s V8 javascript engine and is gaining quite a following. I found … Continue reading →

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Cube on Canvas

Posted on April 23, 2011 by geochap

I first wrote a cube program in c when I was learning Windows programming many years ago. Since then, whenever I’ve wanted to learn about a new platform (e.g. Win CE, Silverlight, Java, Android, ..) I’ve ported it as a … Continue reading →

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