06.20.07
Posted in notelets at 3:24 pm by yee
As I write my book, I find the article ONLamp.com: Why Do People Write Free Documentation? Results of a Survey quite interesting. The book isn't exactly "free documentation" although I'm putting my book online for free downloading.
Besides reading a book, I find it helpful to hear the author talk about his or her book. Hence I recommend IT Conversations: Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby to those reading Richardson and Ruby's Restful Web Services.
Details on using easy_install on Python: Python Cheese Shop : Browse is a list of the high level categories in the repository of Python packages. See also Python Cheese Shop : Home: "The Python Cheese Shop is a repository of software for the Python programming language. There are currently 2455 packages here."
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06.16.07
Posted in APIs, journalism, mashups, notelets at 2:12 pm by yee
‘omg my mom joined facebook!!’ - New York Times captures some of my own experiences on Facebook and might make a good piece for my Building Next Generation Web Applications course:
So last week I joined Facebook, the social network for students that opened its doors last fall to anyone with an e-mail address. The decision not only doubled its active membership to 24 million (more than 50 percent of whom are not students), but it also made it possible for parents like me to peek at our children in their online lair.
I'm glad to hear that the current Youtube API will evolve on top the Google GData API: YouTube API Blog: The Future
I didn't know about the Ruby-based API to Sketchup: SketchUp Ruby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
I follow EveryBlock with great interest. (See also Knight Foundation grant Holovaty.com — and Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits, which has more preliminary details about EveryBlock.)
It is important to remember that JavaScript code is case sensitive. I couldn't get an event handler to fire because I wrote alink.onClick and not the correct alink.onclick
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