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Another Widget: Twitter

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

So I signed up for Twitter to see if they have a widget I could put on my blog. It turns out they do (requires Flash though):
follow jacobc at http://twitter.com
Getting this one onto my blog wasn’t nearly as slick as Shelfari. The example flash widget took a couple moments to even load, and the Javascript […]

Cool Coding/Interview Questions

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

I just came across the “FizzBuzz” problem for the first time on a blog entry called “Why Can’t Programmers.. Program?”. This is a pretty cool question, especially because it can easily be asked over the phone and a reasonable answer could be given over the phone.
I’m going to start collecting a set of problems like […]

Amazon Favorite Items Widget

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Yet another widget. This one comes from Amazon’s “Favorite Items” feature, found in the profile page. It’s easiest to populate if most of your favorite items have been bought through Amazon.

Shelfari Virtual Bookshelf

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

In the vein of more dynamic blog widgets, here’s one from a site called Shelfari, which lets you build a virtual bookshelf of books you have. It also contains some social networking stuff like adding friends and viewing their bookshelves.

This plugin requires Adobe Flash 9.
var shelf = new ShelfariShelf(”shelfH.swf”, “310″, “220″);shelf.useExpressInstall(”http://sws.shelfari.com/expressinstall.swf”);shelf.addVariable(”UserName”, “jacobc”);shelf.addVariable(”ShelfType”, “user”);shelf.addVariable(”verE”, “js1.1″);shelf.addVariable(”BookSize”, “large”);shelf.addVariable(”Alpha”, […]

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