Posts Tagged ‘Django’
I wish this blog was…
Friday, September 12th, 2008My First Callcast
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Check it out. Thanks Kevin!
Tweet 2 Tweet
Sunday, May 18th, 2008Announcing my latest (tiny) project: Tweet 2 Tweet.
You know when you see someone’s Twitter update with an @ reply in it to someone you don’t know and are completely confused about the topic? Tweet 2 Tweet is an effort to solve that. You can put both of their names into Tweet 2 Tweet and see their conversation on one page much like Facebook’s “Wall-to-Wall” feature.
It’s just a dumb, fun project. Nothing made to be a big splash; just something I’ve been meaning to do. It uses Django + App Engine + Summize to power it. Django mainly for the templates, App Engine so my server doesn’t get anymore overloaded, and Summize so I don’t even need a database.
Plus it was an excuse to whip out my old algorithms book so I could implement a quicksort.
Thanks to everyone who’s covered it already; I’ll be making minor improvements from time to time.
FriendFeed Stats – FriendFeed API + Open Source
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008I really dropped the ball on writing a blog post about this one but better late than never!
On March 21st Bret Taylor (one of the FriendFeed founders) asked if I’d like to provide feedback for the then upcoming FriendFeed API. I was very interested in getting my hands on it and stoked that I was one of the people he thought of when searching for feedback. Over the weekend I tinkered with the API, provided feedback (you can thank me for having comment/like/discussion and search feeds in the API), and built the first FriendFeed application: FriendFeed Stats.
On March 25th I launched FriendFeed Stats simultaneously with the release of the FriendFeed API. Soon I open sourced the Django application that drives FriendFeed Stats so everyone could see how simple it is to work with the FriendFeed API.
Many thanks to Bret and the rest of the FriendFeed team for delivering an awesome service. I hope to see many more interesting FriendFeed applications soon.
RSSmeme – Javascript Love
Friday, February 15th, 2008RSSmeme is now even more Web 2.0 with the addition of Javascript events. When Brian Beck gave RSSmeme a makeover he also threw in the ability to shrink down the tag/shared user list by using jQuery. This got me interested in jQuery and I found myself not completely hating it. I have had bad experiences with Javascript before but jQuery makes it fun and easy. RSSmeme can now:
- Hide a story by clicking the “hide” link next to the “share!” link. This is basically fluff but I could imagine you could use it to hide stories as you read. It then becomes a “show” link to show the story again.
- Load the next level up in details for an individual story without changing your global preview setting. If you find a story interesting you can click the “read more” link in the “Explore” subsection next to the “similar stories” link. This will ask RSSmeme for more details about the story. For example: if you are currently set to preview “none” then it will load “some”. Click it again and it will load “all” and hide the link (there isn’t any more to see!).
There are probably more important things I can work on but this was fun for my first excursion into jQuery and JSON. Django and jQuery made it painless.
