At Seekport I’m currently working on an app to handle the config of their business-to-business search engine. It’s web-based and I’m using PHP, since that’s what they’re re-doing the front-end in. Right now it’s a big mess of Perl, the main developer (for the front-end) is gone, and they’re having trouble managing it. I have read through it, and it’s pretty dismal. They have config mixed with logic and duplicated code all over the place. There’s an 1100 line sub in one of the perl modules. Agh!
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Posted by sjs
on Monday, June 05
How’s this for an update: I’m working in Munich for the summer at a European search engine called Seekport. The search engine isn’t all they do, as right now I’m programming a desktop widget that shows live scores & news from World Cup matches (in English and Arabic). I’m building it on top of the Yahoo! Widget Engine because it needs to run on Windows. Even though I quite like the Y! Engine, I would still prefer to be coding in straight HTML, CSS & JavaScript like Dashboard programmers get to use. The Y! Engine uses XML (it is somewhat HTML-like) and JavaScript.
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