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Posts Tagged ‘coding’

Twitter status RSS broken?

Posted in Play on 4 August 2008 | Comments?
Tags: coding, mashup, pipes, rss, tumblog, twitter, yahoo

I just noticed that my Twitter timeline RSS is not being displayed in my tumblog, so I went back to Yahoo! Pipes to sniff around. It appears that the Twitter feed is not coming up valid (or Pipes could not parse it).
(Update: The Twitter feed is valid, according to the W3C, but the Feedburner [...]

Revisiting my tumblog

Posted in Play on 14 April 2008 | 2 comments
Tags: blogging, coding, feedburner, javascript, mashup, pipes, rss, tumblog, yahoo

I’ve made several improvements to my tumblog.
Previously, I merely plugged in the RSS output from Yahoo! Pipes to Feedburner, and served up the content using Buzzboost. Using techniques from Cristiano Betta’s lifestream and elsewhere, I simplified and modularized the Yahoo! Pipes mashup.
I then used the pipe’s JSON output and styled it with some simple [...]

2007 in pictures

Posted in Play on 3 January 2008 | 2 comments
Tags: 2007, coding, flickr, hacking, javascript, photos, review, status. coverflow

Cover-flow style, courtesy of MooFlow tools. The photos were compiled from Flickr.

I was attempting to automate the process ala-fd’s Flickr toys, what with the Flickr API’s fantastic use of JSON responses (no need for server-side nor cross-site xHTTP requests). Alas, my days were packed. But I’m getting the hang of it. I’m relearning JavaScript [...]