I’m looking for a calendar web-app with full API access. I really don’t want to reinvent the wheel…
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Calendar APIs
Monday, August 27th, 2007Get your jobs from UnorderedList
Saturday, July 28th, 2007There are no more reasons to put up your own job board or even have your own local data about it.
List all the openings on UnorderedList and go to this Yahoo Pipe to get back whatever you want to get back. You can filter by company or location.
If this is not enough for you you can always go and duplicate the existing pipe and create your own…
Local web-apps
Monday, June 25th, 2007Today a fellow web developer released a local web development job board called Unordered List. It was fun to be included in the testing while it was still in development. I made a bunch of comments and a lot of them got incorporated in the current release. It’s still a bit too monochromatic for my taste but still. I guess the development will not stop as at least a few new functionalities will be needed when the database grows beyond the front page – search and filters.
I’ve created a Yahoo pipe to get all the jobs in a JSON feed. I’ll be adding filters to the pipe as soon as company and the location of the job are available in the feed. This will make it easier to add a list of available jobs on blogs and other pages.
If you check Unordered List you’ll also see that I’m looking for an assistant. I’ll talk more about this in the next few days, I’ll just say that I’m after web enthusiasts who don’t yet know much and want to learn everything.
On a similar note, a local social bookmarking tool obviously launched recently. I have to say I noticed it through a Toboads ad network ad on my blog. I had to dig through the history to find it again but here it is – Zlitt. I have no idea who the author is though. The domain was bought through WhoisGuard and the app itself hosted on Dreamhost. A good way to hide your identity but probably not the best idea when you’re creating a local web-app. Who knows, maybe they’re going global…
In the mean time I put together a small one-page web-app to check your Lotto winnings – simply tell it what the winning combination was, the bonus number(s) and your combinations. It will show you what numbers you got right, but to know if you won anything you need to also tell it what winning means. I have it set up to the Lottery of Slovenia Loto, but you can change it easily. It’s not pretty, because I used the interface of my previous one-pagers – The pingerator and MonsterID.
I’m hoping for a lot of other web-apps from my fellow local web developers in the next months. Such that build on available APIs or are so specific to the local environment / community that they have a significant advantage over what others are doing. The local web-app landscape has been growing and maybe we’re in need of a page that will list all these web-apps in a way that is better than a simple search engine output. There’s an idea for another Web 2.0 page…
Najdi.si snatched
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007Telekom bought Najdi.si for 8.55M€ according to Finance.
Will this help Najdi.si in the battle against global players or will the strategy stay the same and our beloved country (Telekom is partly owned by the government controlled funds) threw money away? Maybe I’ll expand this thought but today is not that day…
Blogorola has ping – Apache rewriting with time
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007Had says, that Blogorola got a ping interface at http://api.blogorola.com/ping.
I hope this means that it won’t be requesting the feed every 2 minutes anymore. It’s should be getting a 304, but anyways…
Update #1: I posted a post in Slovenian. I have no idea what I was thinking. And I also figured out that it’s getting a 302, cause my feed is at Feedburner, a Google company…
Update #2: Hope floats. Blogorola’s “ItsyBitsy – spider” made 57 requests in the last 8 hours or so. My server doesn’t care much, cause it only serves a 302 and redirects to the FeedBurner hosted feed. What about yours? Are you willing to put up with this?
If you’re using Apache and mod_rewrite (chances are that you are) you can use mod rewrite to make sure the requests don’t go through to your backend and database with something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ItsyBitsy
RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR} >00
RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR} <06
RewriteRule . http://blackhole/ [R=307,L]
Add this to the .htaccess file in your WordPress folder (it should already be there) or basically anywhere on the server to disallow access to the spider at all times except at night when other traffic is low.
You could also use this to allow the spider to access the feed only when you're actually writing - e.g. you usually write your posts between 20 and 22 so you can allow access then, and send it to the "blackhole" at other times. You can also use this to server it different feeds at different times for whatever reason...
See more about rewriting with time at the Apache conf page or the rewrite guide.
OpenID.si launched!
Monday, April 9th, 2007I’ve launched a Slovenian OpenID site at openid.si. I’m looking for other Slovenian OpenID enthusiasts that would help build a meaningful center for all Slovenian OpenID users and developers.
It’s a long road that OpenID has to travel to become a serious player on the landscape of the internet. If you think it’s the right way to go and are willing to do something about it you’re welcome to join us – contact details at openid.si.
At the same time I would like to mention that we’ll be having (probably the first Slovenian) OpenID talk at Spletne urice on 18 April at 19:00. Sebastjan Trepca, the founder of Slovenian Orthodox Users of Python, developer of Marela and a web developer at Parsek, will be talking about what OpenID is and how to implement a client and a server.
If you want to read more about OpenID head over to openid.si to find a bunch of OpenID resource links. If you have more don’t hesitate to email.