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Use Backbone JS without REST

Backbone.persistence is a simple adapter to use Backbone.js without using the REST persistence layer. Backbone is great, but not only for applications that use a remote persistence mechanism, for example, the demo TODO app uses the HTML5 localStorage instead of the usual REST layer. Sometimes you don’t even need to use localStorage, for example, when [...]

Posted 12 September 2011 † simaom § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

LXBus – Obtaining Lisbon bus waiting time information

A few months ago I started using a new service provided by carris to check how much time I have to wait for the bus. Problem is, people at Carris never heard about webservices and rest apis, so I had to send an e-mail and wait for an automated reply with information about waiting times [...]

Posted 01 October 2010 † simaom § geek § informação § portugal ‡ Comments (2) °

New github repository

I just set up a github repository to hold my code. Here’s the link http://github.com/simao/mycode Currently, the repository contains only the code of my latest Python script, rssTorrents.py. Tweet

Posted 15 February 2010 † simaom § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Automatically download torrent files from a RSS feed

I was looking for a way to parse a RSS feed I built using yahoo pipes and add new torrents to Transmission to download them automatically. I couldn’t find anything useful, so I just wrote a python script to do just that. If you want to use it, you’ll need to configure the first lines [...]

Posted 25 January 2010 † simaom § geek ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Why Jungle Disk is so slow

I recently signed up for an account at Jungle disk, http://www.jungledisk.com. I’m paranoid about backups, I use Time Machine to do a full weekly backup and Jungle Disk as an off-site backup solution. It seemed the cheapest option since you only pay for what you upload, and although I have a full 160GB hard drive, [...]

Posted 25 June 2009 † simaom § apple § geek ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , ,