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Thursday, March 1st, 2007I 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, 2007Yet 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, 2007In 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”, […]
Amazon Wish List feed using AJAX
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007As a continuation of explorations into creating AJAX-y widgets for my content, here’s one I whipped up for my Amazon Wish List. It uses the same basic approach as the Netflix Queue widget, except the XML isn’t a true RSS feed, so the processing is slightly different.
My Amazon.com Wish List
This is intentionally kept pretty […]
NetflixRSS Project Created
Friday, February 23rd, 2007I’ve created a project for the Netflix queue AJAX widget over at Google Code. I did this partly as an excuse to check it out, partly as a way of providing the widget for other people to use, and partly to see if it is a easy and useful way for sharing my code with […]
Netflix Queue via AJAX and RSS
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007This is an attempt to display my Netflix queue (or at least, a few items from it) using AJAX and Netflix’s RSS feed.
#netflixRSSTarget { text-align: left; background-color: #B9090B; border: 1px solid silver; height: 315px; […]
New Blog Software
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007So I’ve had this “blog” for some time now, and it has been basically a thin post manager wrapping plain HTML entry files. I decided it was time to install a bona fide blog application, to make it easier to create an manipulate posts, get comments, and so on.
I chose Wordpress, not from any formal […]
iMix Created and Published
Monday, February 19th, 2007 So as a followup to the previous item, I created an iMix from my computer at home, and published it in the iTunes store. It’s called “Songs for coding,” and contains some songs representative of the type of music I listen to when writing code.
On the positive side of this experience, at least Apple […]
iTunes and Restrictive DRM
Friday, February 16th, 2007 I listen to my music at work. Typically this means I have my iPod connected to my work laptop via a USB cable, and I use iTunes to listen to the music on it. For listening to my own music, this works great.
I also connect to other shared music libraries for variety, and listen […]
Apple iPhone
Thursday, January 11th, 2007 The Apple iPhone is really cool. I just have one point I’m hoping Apple will have thought of before the phone is released to the public.
The phone needs to be usable as an entertainment device without having the phone portion enabled. Or rather, the phone portion needs to be able to be disabled […]
