Machine-tagging Huffduffer some more
After I wrote about the hoops I had to jump through to get Amazon
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Machine-tagging Huffduffer
Over the weekend I was looking at the latest additions to Huffduffer . I noticed that Xavier Roy was using machine tags to tag a reading by Richard Dawkins . What an excellent idea! I set aside a little time to do a little hacking with Amazon’s API . Now you can tag stuff on Huffduffer with machine tags like book:author=steven johnson , book:title=the invention of air or music:artist=my morning jacket . Other namespaces are film and movie . Anything matching that pattern will trigger a search on Amazon and display a list of results. … Read the rest here
Sparklining Huffduffer
I’m back in Ireland for a little while. ‘Tis the season for merrymaking, munching mince pies, imbibing wine and—if you’re a geek—fiddling with code. That’s what I’ve been doing, sitting by the fire with my Macbook on my lap, hacking on Huffduffer . I’ve been messing around with Google’s Chart API . I thought it would be nice to have some discreet little sparklines on profile pages… Read the rest here
Hacking Huffduffer with Last.fm
The Last.fm hack day took place in London yesterday . Much nerdy fun was had by all and some very cool hacks were produced. Nigel made a neat USB-powered arduino-driven ambient signifier
Audio ga-ga
Huffduffer is written in HTML5 . For the most part, this is no different to writing in any other flavour of HTML, just with a simpler DOCTYPE . For the time being, I
Mad Libz, Yo!
It seems that quite a few people like the signup form on Huffduffer . This pleases me. I share Luke W.
Chuff Chuff, Huffduff
I’ve just returned from delivering a day of DOM Scripting training in Manchester. The workshop went well but, given the significant distance between Brighton and Manchester, the journey there and back took quite a while. I passed the time on the train doing a little bit of hacking, all the while listening to my Huffduffer podcast which I had loaded up with stuff I thought I might be interesting. Nothing makes a train journey go faster than stimulating the mind with some audio nourishment. I’m very happy to report that the quality of stuff being huffduffed is extraordinarily high. … Read the rest here
Announcing Huffduffer
Back in April, I wrote: I