Tag Archives for web
Video: “Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing Us”
Here’s a great video on the evolution of the Web: [Direct link, for the feed readers.] (Via Gizmodo.)
ColorZilla conflict causes FireBug 1.0 to not display on FF 2.x on Ubuntu (update: getting better)
Just wanted to share this find: After the 1.0 update of FireBug last month, the extension stopped working for me on Firefox 2.0.x on Ubuntu. Thanks to a quick Google search, I found that FireBug conflicts with ColorZilla. After disabling … Continue reading
Tips for ASP’s
I’ve been doing a lot of work lately focused on researching content and Web-service providers, and it’s amazing how differently companies respond to inquiry. As a result, I’ve pulled together a few tips for the budding Web-services entrepreneur’s out there: … Continue reading
Putting the metadata back on Google Image Search
For anyone else who needs it, I found a user script (here) that re-enables the metadata on Google Image Search. (The “redesign” of Google Image Search no longer includes the image size, format, and dimensions.) The script requires the Stylish … Continue reading
Moving my blog from WordPress to Django; Part 2: Migrating the data
In Part 1 of this series, I described some of the motivation, and the components being used to build a new blog for myself. In this (lengthy) post, I’ll address the solution I used to move my content archives from … Continue reading
Moving my blog from WordPress to Django; Part 1: Assemble the wheel, don’t reinvent it
I was hoping to write this post as an announcement for my new blogging solution, but instead (since I haven’t flipped the switch yet), I thought I’d start off with why I’m doing it, and what software I’ve pulled together … Continue reading
Dashboard Widget to mash iTunes library with OnTour.net
Just the other day I had a friend mention a desire to scrape tour schedules in MySpace so that he can find out when artists he’s interested in are in town. (He eventually decided it was too much hassle and … Continue reading
Resetting a Django environment
For one of my Django-based projects, I decided to setup an automated functional-testing system using Selenium to add content to the Admin tool and verify that it works in the site. In order to use this in a “continuous-integration”-like manner, … Continue reading
Switching to Google Reader
I’ve been a long-time NetNewsWire Pro (NNW) user, and still contend that it is one of the nicest desktop aggregators to read news in. With Bloglines and Newsgator integration, and some voodoo syncing features, NNW also makes it easy to … Continue reading
Mapping zombies
Geotagging and geophotosearching have taken off considerably since Flickr‘s new maps integration (which if you haven’t seen, stop what you’re doing and go play with it.) At first I thought the maps interface was more about finding pictures in general … Continue reading
Search volume as an economic indicator
I’ve used Google Trends to do a few trend charts of various technologies, but this article, “Unexpected Decline in Existing Home Sales? Not Exactly” shows a wonderful example of online search usage as a precursor to real-world activity (in this … Continue reading
Aptana Web IDE
Earlier this week I was looking for a nice HTML editor for Eclipse to help ease life when using PyDev with a Django project. I didn’t have much luck, other then finding a few syntax coloring tools that were HTML … Continue reading
FireBug and JavaScript debugging
I finally got around to watching the video of Joe Hewitt’s FireBug demonstration at Yahoo! The video production is a little annoying, but the content is worth it. I’ve been using FireBug already for basic XMLHttpRequest monitoring, but I didn’t … Continue reading
Dabble DB taking on the Spreadsheets
In my recent “Google Spreadsheet Storage” post I mentioned how important an API will be for the online spreadsheets. I think Google will get there eventually, but it looks like Dabble DB will beat them to it. Furthermore, Dabble DB … Continue reading
3D modeling the Earth
Google SketchUp for OS X finally released to the public this week (as did Google Earth Beta 4 for OS X, Linux, and Windows, in case you missed it.) If you’re not familiar with SketchUp, but are at least remotely … Continue reading
Google Spreadsheet Storage
I was pleasantly surprised that Google offered an API to Google Calendar, but I’m much more eager to hear whether an API will be available for Google Spreadsheet. The potential there seems huge! The “Hello World’s” could be “Web servers … Continue reading
SSH Tunneling on public networks
I’ve been traveling a bit this week, which means I’ve also been accessing the net on untrusted networks. For general web surfing this doesn’t both me, but when it comes to editing my blogs or accessing any web service that … Continue reading
Mobile web dev with wifi
Shortly after my Apache and mod_python for S60 post where I geeked out on the possibility of running a web development process involving bluetooth file synchronization and an on-phone webserver, it occurred to me that a simpler solution might just … Continue reading
Apache and mod_python for S60
Nokia Research Center (NRC) has published a port of Apache for S60 which includes mod_python built for Python for S60. Once installed, you can run Apache on your phone and serve Python-based web applications that utilize the full (non-GUI) API … Continue reading
Massive download spike of PyS60
Anyone know what might have caused a massive spike in downloads of PyS60 for 1st Edition devices on April 25th and 26th? We normally see around 100 downloads per day, but those two days saw 35,000 downloads total! The SourceForge … Continue reading