Archive for the ‘programming’ Category
Monday, August 18th, 2008
This weekend, I did a partial rewrite of the Identica version of BeTwittered. I moved from using Prototype to using JQuery. I'm not actually a programmer, so take my opinion with a grain of salt: I really prefer JQuery. I feel more at home writing things like $("#fieldID").html("Shiny, New HTML ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
I put a small service together on 32Hours to "ping" Twitter services. The services available to check Twitter were not helping me much, so I decided to write a little app that actually checks a few extra things:
1) Is Twitter is up (they all do this, but it's not enough ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Here is a link to a LifeHacker story about Prism. Feature: Create Distraction-Free, Customized Webapps with Prism Prism really has my attention and imagination. I REALLY like how I can run BeTwittered as if it were a regular desktop application. There it is, floating about like a normal ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
I got a bit of a lesson this morning. I updated BeTwittered, and was very pleased. Well, until I noticed that the formatting was junk. What did I learn? Stylesheets get cached, and pretty liberally. So if you were using BeTwittered this morning, and it suddenly looked a bit clunky, ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
I spent a bit of time this morning adding to my error handling in BeTwittered. Around 8am there was a bit of a service issue at, I believe, the Twitter server end, but I had no way to confirm it. I was, as my own customer, just getting my ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
I've gotten a PHP version of a Google (iGoogle) gadget working. It follows your friends, and allows you to post, so far. Check it out at 32hours.com, or the direct article link. It's working, and I'll be improving it pretty quickly.
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
AutoHotkey comes to my aid, again. I recently came to realize I had a need to eject my iPod at 9:00am every day. There are two parts to this problem. You need a way to check the time, on some interval. And you need a way to tell windows to ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
I'm thinking about writing one. A terrible, horrible, PHP tutorial, that is. Why not? There isn't another one out there. Well, maybe there are lots and lots terrible tutorials, but not self professed to be so. I'm thinking very seriously about writing a tutorial as ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Google has published my gadget. You can now find it in their directory by following this link. It was interesting to find this when I searched the google gadget directory. Interesting because I applied for it, but got no response.
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
I started using AutoHotKey recently. I was inspired by conversations about the Mac OSX app "Quicksilver." I really interested in the MacBreak Weekly Quicksilver conversation, but disappointed that it was an OSX app. Sometime shortly after, there was talk about Windows alternatives on another TWIT podcast. ...
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