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dgl.cx - 1/4/2009

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GET http://js-wp.dg.cx/json/Perl {"text":"In computer programming, Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall, a linguist working as a systems administrator for NASA, in 1987, as a general purpose Unix scripting ...

dgl.cx - 1/4/2009

Wikipedia over DNS

— dgl.cx — I had written some code to take wikipedia articles and summarise them. I wanted to offer this... for use in various places, now the obvious way to offer it is just a web service (via REST, SOAP, etc), but that's boring and I had a cunning plan. Why not ... (more) Wikipedia over DNS

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MAKE Magazine: hacks — ... a genre of video game or a type of gameplay, Life hack, productivity techniques used by... http://a.vu/w:Hack" Impressive, rolling out a completely distributed, cached utility on existing infrastructure, requiring no end-user software to be installed. It's a testament to versatility and genius of DNS that one of the Internet's original protocols still exists, is as essential as ever, and still has a few tricks up its old sleeves. Wikipedia over DNS Slideshow from David's presentation at the London Perl Workshop 2008

Wikipedia over DNS
MAKE Magazine — ... about it. There's just something fundamentally cool about the world's greatest encyclopedia distributed and cached on name servers around the earth. Not that this particular hack will be used enough for that to happen, of course, but it's interesting that it's possible on existing infrastructure, without anyone having to install anything. A small glimpse of the future of universal cloud storage, all riding on the Internet's oldest protocol. Wikipedia over DNS Slideshow from David's presentation at the London Perl Workshop 2008 Read more | ...