Archive for the ‘ Programming ’ Category
I’ve been wanting to try out Yahoo! Pipes for a while, but never quite knew what to do. In honor of Wilco’s new album being released on Tuesday I decided to create a pipe of their upcoming shows. I don’t quite know how to put the map on my site, so until I figure that [ READ MORE ]
I spent most of the weekend working on Swap-bot, fixing little bugs and adding small features. In between the small tasks I was able finally get the Swap-bot Forums finally added. The Forum is something I started writing a while ago, but never got around to finishing. It’s built on top of the Zend Framework, which [ READ MORE ]
I spent most of Saturday moving Swap-bot to its new server. In the past, moving servers wasn’t too big a deal since I never really got any traffic. A day or two downtime wasn’t anything I worried about. But, the reason I had to even move in the first place was because Swap-bot has started [ READ MORE ]
I downloaded Firefox 2 this weekend, but haven’t done too much with it. Tonight, I was looking at the Firefox 2 for Developers and saw a very promising feature: Microsummaries. Rather than me try and explain them, I’ll let Mozilla: Microsummaries are regularly-updated short summaries of web pages. They are compact enough to fit in the [ READ MORE ]
I spent a good portion of the night working on Swap-bot. I added a few new features tonight. On a related note, I apparently have the best job in America. [ READ MORE ]
I took an initial attempt at a swap-bot recent swaps widget today. The code and graphics are heavily borrowed from examples on Apple’s site, but at least it’s a start. Get the widget. [ READ MORE ]
I started a swap-bot dev blog tonight. As development gets into the fun stages of releasing new features, I needed an easy way to make announcements. Grab the RSS feed and watch the updates roll in. On a related note, I went to download Wordpress and saw they now have SVN access. This is going to [ READ MORE ]
I got some time to play around with the Zend Framework today and I am not exactly crazy about it yet. I think that once some of the bugs get worked out it is going to be great. That said, I have decided not to use it right now. I tried ZendServiceFlickr out and it was [ READ MORE ]
I saw today that Zend has released its Framework for download. I guess I don’t really know where to start playing with it. I am most excited for ZendXmlRpc, ZendPdf, ZendJson, ZendInputFilter and maybe ZendFeed. I also am curious how ZendController and Zend_View work. I have played with MVC’s before and ended up not really [ READ MORE ]
I recently wrote about YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest from Yahoo and how I used their code for some Ajax. My one problem with my solution was that my callback object was “outside” of all my other code. Today, I came up with such a simple solution. Just delete the callback object and in place of where the connection [ READ MORE ]