Was able to spread free content the other day, so I thought I’d share my story Had a friend of mine over, and we got to talking about reading and literature in general. She began talking about this classic lit course she was taking this semester, and how they had just finished reading Dante’s Divine [...]
While working on the android-client for MediaWiki, I quickly hit a bottleneck. Remote calls are time-consuming, as are parsing raw JSON text into JSON objects. Like any good Mediawiki developer, I decided to throw some caching on it. However, Android lacks an object cache. There’s a more specialized CacheManager, but it’s specific to network requests [...]
Was taking a bit more look at Sharkey’s work with OilCan, and I came across wikipedia.js, designed to “Hide navigation bars to optimize for mobile screens and link coordinates from articles to Maps and Radar apps.” I wonder if this is some feedback on our own output for mobile browsers. Perhaps this could get used upstream
