The kindle is serious reading pleasure for me. I actually get a lot of reading done without getting my eyes tired. I still have the GEN3 (photo). Now you can get a Kindle Touch for $99 and a Kindle Fire for $199, however the older Kindle is just brilliant.
Read MoreTwitter widget to show your latest tweets in carousel slider
Today I show you a script to display the latest tweets on your website or blog. You can use two ways: make a call to Twitter’s user_timeline or use YQL/ search.twitter. I will wrap the results in the Tiny Carousel jQuery plugin. Read on …
Read MoreRuby script to get Facebook Like stats for your blog
In spite of my proposed Scala, HTML5, and Mobile learning, I will start this New Year learning Ruby :) – I am about to read Eloquent Ruby, but before that I wanted to wet my apetite with a practical case …
Read MoreAn overview of a productive 2011, 2012: more to come …
As a tradition at the end of the year I’ll take a moment to reflect back what this blog brought you this year. 2011 was a year of APIs, good books, reading and music apps, Perl exploring and more …
Read MoreReading: FB App Development with Graph API Cookbook
I just finished reading Facebook Application Development with Graph API Cookbook. It provides over 90 recipes to create web apps with the Facebook API. The variety of topics and the amount of practical code examples makes it a useful reference for the FB API developer.
Read MoreHow to make a rich movie search interface with instant trailers
Today a quick post to show you a new feature I rolled out last week on sharemovi.es: #nw or Now Watching. Go check it out here. In this post some printscreens and a what technologies I used
Read MoreComments are back on my blog: Disqus is the best!
I had some changes in blog comments last months. I tried URLs to Twitter and Facebook. Last week I added the Facebook comment box. Today however I will go back to Disqus, a service that guarantees easy and rich blog engagement.
Read MoreSELECT * FROM Internet: examples of YQL, a powerful API crawler
YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) is not new, however the concept of a Web Service that accesses Internet data with SQL-like commands, is really cool so should be mentioned on this blog!
Read MoreFacebook API: how to post TO a page and AS the page
Today I will show you how you can post to Facebook pages with the identity of those pages. One of my readers came up with this question and truth is it is useful if you have various pages to administer.
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Web design shift: read “Responsive Web Design”
With an increasing amount of web devices (mobile, tablets, higher resolution screens), web designers are faced with a challenge: how to respond well to all? Ethan Marcotte’s book “Responsive Web Design” provides a potential shift in how we design for the web!
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