Ask and ye shall receive. Attached is a patch for using friendfeed.py on Google App Engine. You need to also have demjson available. Google App Engine does not allow use of many C modules (like cjson) and both json and simplejson will throw decoding errors from time to time. demjson is slow but won’t throw [...]
Tag Archives: Programming
Tweet 2 Tweet
May 18, 2008 – 8:21 pm
Announcing 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 [...]
RSSmeme - Javascript Love
February 15, 2008 – 10:42 am
RSSmeme 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 [...]
Readable URLs matter (to me at least)
February 9, 2008 – 1:00 pm
Attention web developers; I never ever want to see this in your URLs every again:
?u=123&id=456&s=l&preview=1&blahblahblahblahblah
Sometimes it might be required to throw some GET parameters into the mix (pagination and search come to mind) but most of the time it is not necessary. Make urls that are human readable:
http://www.rssmeme.com/story/17881/similar/
What might that URL point to? To me [...]
How To: Dynamic Slide Down Disqus Comments
RSSmeme now has dynamically generated slide down Disqus comments for every story (see it in action by clicking the comment link next to “Contribute”). I had to hack around a bit with the Disqus provided embed.js to get it working, here’s how:
Copy embed.js locally and remove the document.write() where the style information is written. Dynamically [...]