Codeacrobat

http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-all@perl.org/msg84878.html

The problem with demoing the awesomeness of Perl 6 is always running out of demo time before running out of demo-able awesomeness.

Damian Conway

Bah and it doesn't even work. http://free-youtube-downloader.org/
Perl to the rescue.
 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# usage: ytd.pl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyknmWUZeVQ
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );

my $url = shift;
my($filename) = $url =~m{v=(\w+)}g;

$agent->get($url);
my ($url2) = $agent->content() =~ m{\|(http:\\/\\/v..lscache.*?id=\w+)}msg;
$url2 =~ s{\\}{}g;
$agent->get($url2);
open F, ">", "$filename.flv" or die "$filename.flv: $!";
binmode F;
print F $agent->content,"\n";
close F;

My colleagues René and Jake convinced me to take some days off for a small android app hacking project.
The task is to write an app that one-click enhances the quality of photos.

We found that the Intelligent Image Enhance (i2e) algorithm produces the best results. There was no need to dig deep into serious C++ hacking, an i2e_test sample application already gave us what we needed.

The hard thing is to integrate the enhancer into Android. We found out that we could not extend the android camera or gallery as they could not be compiled with the Android SDK. The standard android apps seem to make heavy usage of internal classes not built with the SDK. The next PITA moment was for us to find out that android code samples are quickly outdated and  documentation for older SDKs is not available.

Now after the second day of development we have a proof of concept gallery app displaying enhanced photos.

Lets see if I throw in the towel tomorrow, the SDK issue and Java bloat are hard for me to bear.

I am getting started with movable type blogging software...