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== Derrick Pallas == | == Derrick Pallas == | ||
Latest revision as of 21:21, 20 December 2008
Derrick Pallas
About me
I am a Software Engineer for [Alexa Internet], a subsidiary of [Amazon]. (Anything I say on this website is on my own behalf and is not the opinion or property of my company, nor should it be construed to represent such.)
I have an MS in CS from [UCD] where I [worked] in the [Center for Software Systems Reasearch]. These days I just do cool tricks with Ruby and C++, advocating cool things like [FastCGI] and [microformats]. You probably saw me at [BarCamp] last year or the birthday party for microformats. You can often catch me at [SF Beta].
Additionally, I used to write for [The Daily WTF]. You can find out more about me at [my own website].
re: microformats
What I'm working on:
- working on examples for a software dependency / generic directed acyclic graph microformat
- telling everyone I know about how to embed an hCard in the web page they've already got
- I got a couple of fields added to the Alexa search engine, including "ClassTag" and "RelTag", which search for documents in which a class or rel appear. This is useful for queries against Alexa's "Million Search Results" service.
- Every month, I count the number of pages with microformats that show up in Alexa's archive.
- I don't show this number to Ben West any more, lest it end up in IRC attached to his name. (That really makes me furious.)
proposal: dependancy
- looking for examples of directed graphs on the web
- applications in
- software engineering
- automatically build library dependency trees
- distribute security alerts to people that link to your code
- any directed, acyclic graph
- getting dressed in the morning
- cooking
- software engineering
- orthogonal to xfn
- people don't have versions
- libfoo requires libbar-2.0 or later
- people don't have optional relationships
- ex: at build time, compile in SSL support if present
- people don't have exclusive-or relationships
- ex: in Gentoo, syslog, syslog-ng, and metalog satisfy virtual/syslog
- ex: the Ruby library RMagick requires ImageMagick xor GraphicsMagick
- people don't have versions