I am about to finish a travel Facebook App. The design looks promising, especially because of the info and pictures I could crawl together. Few more days and I will release a first draft. For now the answer to: “how to create your own country API?”
Read MoreGit in a nutshell: some basics to get you started
Git is really not that hard to learn, yet it is a powerful tool to manage version control of your work. I learned the basics recently studying the Ruby on Rails tutorial. From there Pro Git is an interesting follow-up. This post shows some basic Git to get started.
Read MoreWeb 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!
Read MoreWhy the Kindle is my number one reading device
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.
Read MoreYii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook
Yii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook, released by Packt Publishing, covers over 80 recipes about a wide variety of common Yii challenges. Written by Alexander Makarov, one of the core developers of the framework, the book is full of medium to advanced solutions.
Read MoreYour own movie database in 5 minutes with IMDb API and Perl
In this post I will show you how you can easily import IMDb data for your movies and process the XML to get SQL for database import. From there you can start to build your movie site.
Read MoreHow to create a customized Google+ Share button
A quick post about something I was looking for some time, a way to share links to Google+ from outside their service. There are two interesting options available now.
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New Facebook App / travel site: Globe Explorer
In today’s post I present a new Facebook App: Globe Explorer. I will show some printscreens and techniques I used in the current design. As usual, I started simple to expand with new features in the future.
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