I’ve been bit by the JSON bug. For a long time now, I’ve simply shrugged it off as ‘Why not just use XML, it’s parsable by most languages anyway.’ However, once I started playing around with the del.icio.us JSON interface, then the Google Homepage API, and finally with the new Yahoo! JSON API – I […]
Comment · Posted: December 17th, 2005
A fun online game that I’ve been playing, lately, is llor.nu (unroll, backwards). It’s written using Ruby on Rails, has lots of nice Javscript/AJAXy things, and is Open Source. The game, in and of itself, is rather simple – you roll the dice, collect money, pay rent, build buildings, and get more money. Which can […]
Comment · Posted: December 16th, 2005
Yesterday, I sat down and played around with the new Google Homepage API, which is interesting, in and of itself. I found the development to be most like developing a widget (for Dashboard or Konfabulator). A couple observations: By default, your module is contained within a fixed height IFrame, but it’s possible to actually embed […]
Comment · Posted: December 14th, 2005
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of work building a parser for both XPath and CSS 3 – and I was amazed at just how similar they are, in some respects – but wholly different in others. For example, CSS is completely tuned to be used with HTML, with the use of #id (to get […]
Comment · Posted: December 13th, 2005
About a month ago, when the new Firefox beta was released, I decided to play around with the brand-spanking new Canvas element, which is going into HTML 5. Currently Mozilla, Safari, and Opera 9 all support it – which is a good sign. Essentially, this element allows you to do 2D graphics (drawing lines, rotating […]
Comment · Posted: November 12th, 2005
I could give a thousand excuses, but I’m not entirely sure if they’d mean anything. September and October have been an incredibly busy time for me, school, moving, sickness, work – it’s just piled on top of each other. Although, this doesn’t mean that I’ve been slacking – I just haven’t had time to make […]
Comment · Posted: October 18th, 2005
Word to the Wise: If you run a dedicated web server for multiple people and web sites – make sure none of the sudo-capable accounts use a dictionary-based password. Ever. With that in mind, the past few days have been a complete mess. Luckily, all the data and files were saved from my various web […]
Comment · Posted: September 14th, 2005
This is the project page for my entry into the addEvent() recoding contest. It works in all of the modern browsers: Windows IE 5+, Mozilla, Opera, and Safari. The code meets every item outlined in the guideline – attempting to be as short and simple as possible. You can view a demo of it in […]
Comment · Posted: September 8th, 2005
