So long and thanks for all the links

January 18, 2010

Nerdabout has had a fantastic year and a half and we'd like to thank the Science Channel, our writers and all the folks who visited the blog for making it the fun adventure that it was. But all good and geeky things must come to an end or hurtle themselves out into space. Whichever seems fitting.

What's happening to our tweets? Nerdabout is migrating to Snarkmeat so follow us there.

Where to find us floating on the internetz:

Noah our resident programmer and open source champion will continue to write about programming on his blog, One More Bug.

Joanna, community manager, writer and Nerdabout's twitterer extrodinaire will be studying botany, building hydroponic farms in apartments and classrooms, crafting up a storm and working on getting her blog Knitforge up and running. She'll also tweet our new adventures at Snarkmeat so follow her there.

Heather has started a blog called Breakup Cookbook which is all about developing culinary skills to get over heartbreak. Or, as she puts it: "Eat a slice of cheesecake and you’ll feel better for a minute; learn how to make cheesecake and you’re ready for whatever comes your way." While you're consoling yourself with tasty delights, check out Boy Thyme which has cuties cooking up dishes.

John is studying emptiness and working on a novel set in Houston, Texas.

Dave continues his quest for world domination as a freelance designer. You can check out some of his work here.

Liz will continue on as a freelance researcher for Vanity Fair Editor Mark Seal, as well doing freelance arts and entertainment reporting for the Daily Beast. Liz is headed to Baltimore for the rest of this month to do a freelance project with the Baltimore Brew.

We'd also like to call out our 2 regular guest bloggers, science writer John Palvus and our favorite gammer and insect guy Lonesome Polecat both of whom we hope will still talk to us.

Thanks again for hanging out with us here on Nerdbout and we hope to see you in our new geeky endeavors.

lwp-request: A Perl-ish Way of Reading HTTP Headers

January 06, 2010

Recently we wrote about how much we love Lynx, the text-only Web browser. We like Lynx for its simplicity and its small footprint.

Another very small Web browser is LWP-Request. It ships with Perl's LWP library. So if you're using Perl for HTTP hacking already, you might have it installed.

Debugging Ajax and Web Services by Reading HTTP Headers