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https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/facebook-api · 28 Jul 2009
I like Facebook (despite its recent frustrating changes that make walls confusing) but I have a niggle as a developer using their APIs. If you choose to use Facebook's XFBML to put a commenting system on your blog (like I do here) then anyone posting that ...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/slypis-out-in-the-wild · 24 May 2009
I get really frustrated when websites don't have APIs. I know its kinda mean to screen scrape, and potentially prevented by ToCs etc, but I built this anyway. I have finals exams to revise for and not enough to procrastinate with! So, what is all this Sly...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/twitter-links-in-tumblr · 20 May 2009
When writing a post the other day[^1], I wanted to be able to use the tumblr chat where the participants were twitter users. Tumblr doesn’t support HTML in chat usernames, so I wrote a tiny javascript chunk to automatically troll any elements you give it...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/short-lived · 17 May 2009
Browsing through my github projects I’ve noticed I appear to have an idea, work on it for at most a week and then consign it to the ‘uninteresting’ pile… some projects get completed, some don’t. Wish I had more time to complete them, as well as s...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/ruby-dlc-on-github · 5 May 2009
github.com Ruby-DLC is now available on github, and consequently as a gem! You can install with[^1]: There’s a gist explaining how to use the library and the rdoc documentation is still available on my project page. Please file an issue if you have any...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/porting-to-ruby · 5 May 2009
I had some time to kill today, so I rewrote the DLC api in Ruby. If you use JDownloader you’ll know how useful the DLCs are, essentially they allow you to contain all the links from a variety of online hosting sources in one place with any passwords tha...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/campus-bot · 29 Apr 2009
I’m building a twitterbot to answer questions about things happening on my university campus. Should be fun, I’ve decided to use Ruby and Active Record as a foundation :) Might be a few days before anything appears on github, I’ve got a few exams in...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/where-on-the-web-screencast · 21 Apr 2009
{{< vimeo 4252126 >}} Oooooh, a screencast? About my latest app? How exciting!
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/where-on-the-web · 21 Apr 2009
{{< figure src="where-on-the-web.jpg" alt="A terrain map of the earth over the Atlantic, showing red dots moving between the UK and other places on earth" >}} Where On The Web is aliiiiive! I built it, and it appears to work averagely well. You can see t...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/processing-and-ruby · 20 Apr 2009
I got stuck into processing this weekend - I’ve been meaning to try it out for some time, but I also found a fantastic little project called ruby-processing. Yes, its exactly what it sounds like geeks, its the visual control of the processing language, i...