Hey folks!
I’ve been seeing on the web lately that a lot of people are still having a hard time “getting” CSS. It’s not really code, in that it doesn’t execute, so it doesn’t really look right to programmers. Yet, it a kind of language, in that it has a syntax and a grammar, that is very terse, and not exactly straightforward – tough on the graphic design folks I know.
Have I mentioned that Wordpress is awesome lately? Today I needed to dynamically create an XSPF playlist for a website mp3 player. There’s a great XSPF player available over at Sourceforge that my client wanted to use. XSPF is just an XML dialect, so it shouldn’t be too tough to output from Wordpress, right?
My plan was to make a special category of links in Wordpress. Call it something special (how’s about “Playlist”) and add a bunch of links to .mp3 files posted out on the ol’ internet.
Well, folks, I’m back from Summer Film with a vengance. And it’s time to get down to some programming, so here goes.
We’ve all heard about Ruby on Rails. “It’s so great,” they say. “Ruby is so simple, and efficient,” I hear. “There’s a cool guide that has Foxes!” says some other guy from the back.
Hey all.
Got a pet project I’m gonna lay on ‘ya. It’s a Google Search builder.
One of the fun things about Google is the interesting stuff you can find by just surfing and modifying your searches. But it’s such a hassle typing all the time. You gotta put your hand on the mouse to click links anyway, right?
So with this (very beta! so beta, it’s alpha!) page, you can drag-and-drop words. The green box is words you’re looking for, the red box is words you’re ignoring. The orange box is a shelf to save interesting results in. Yellow words are draggable. Give it a shot. Click the “Semi-Live” to get a new page of results every time you drag a word around.
One caveat: This does break the “back” button. It’s all AJAX-y and cool, but I haven’t given it any kind of memory yet. I’ll get to it.
Rock.
Hey all!
Soooo…. I’ve set up this blog, right. It’s right here. You’re reading it. Good on ya.
And Blogger makes it really easy to add Google Adsense to the blog. Real easy. ‘Cuz Google owns Blogger. Cool beans. It’s all good.
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