Read the FAQ and still need a question answered? Please poke around the site a bit more and see if there's a more appropriate venue ... I'm much more likely to pay attention to questions asked in public, because I look like a dork if I don't answer them.
I had a friend that is trying to use the Netflix odata with JSONP APIs. Recently the examples stopped working as it seems the callback params is not being used :
http://odata.netflix.com/Catalog/Titles?$top=10&$callback=myCallback&$format=json
Does the API still support callbacks? I'm seeing a weird responses...
Thank you in advance
They are now looking for a Front-End Engineer to join the founding team and lead the front-end development piece of the product. For the right person, this position could turn into a Lead Developer role.
Your technical skills must include:
• Minimum of 5+ years of solid software development experience
• Excellent object oriented programming skills
• Strong experience coding D/XHTML, JavaScript, CSS and Ajax
• Strong experience programming graphical interfaces with a keen sense of understanding for the latest UI design
• Strong Experience with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and Mootools
• Experience with JSON API integration
• B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent combination of education and experience
Big pluses include:
• Experience with Flash video applications and players
• Experience with rich media, entertainment applications
• Mobile application development
You must be someone who:
• Thrives in the fast-paced and high-energy environment of an early-stage company
• Is reliable, motivated and driven to create a successful product
• Has the ability to see the bigger picture and successfully execute
• Is willing to go beyond your official job description
If this sounds like you please send me your resume to vivi@peopleconnectstaffing.com for immediate consideration.
If you are not interested in this position, please do forward this on to anyone you know who might be.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Thanks Randy
I'm at your BayCHI talk right now and I wanted to point you to prefab: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jfogarty/research/prefab/ . Seems like it's relevant to the stuff you're talking about :).
Cheers
Hang
Have you found a way to make Twitter Search Widget work on https pages?
Thanks in advance.
Mehmet
I would like to speak with you regarding a job opportunity. My client is a leading Smart Grid company located here in San Francisco; below is the job description, in short we really need a strong front-end engineer. Someone who's well versed in building applications and understands the demands of enterprise software. The total package... please let me know if you or someone in your network would be interested in learning more. I look forward to hearing from you.
Responsibilities:
- Write front-end code in PHP, HTML/CSS and Javascript
- Implement new features as well as enhance existing ones
- Work closely with product management, UX designers and backend server engineers
- Always look for ways to make the UI behave and perform better
Qualifications:
- Strong knowledge of object oriented PHP programming, best practices, and web application framework (such as Symfony, Code Igniter, Solar, CakePHP, Rails, Django, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of object oriented javascript; you have already built AJAX applications using a framework such as jQuery, YUI, or ExtJS
- Good knowledge of CSS, if needed you know the CSS workarounds to fix or workaround legacy browser behaviors
- You know what front end performance means
- You embrace open standards and you thrive to provide a rich user experience no matter which browser is used
- Good knowledge of source control tools as such as svn and git
Nice to have:
- You have experience with testing (TDD, PHPUnit, Selenium)
- You worked with web services and SOAP
- When you wake up every morning, you can't wait to scrum
- You comfortable working or you worked in the past in a fast paced startup environment
- You comfortable working with Linux (Ubuntu/Red Hat)
Best wishes,
Timothy Farrelly
Coit Group
800.897.5058 ext. 402
415.433.5200 ext. 402
415.433.2660 /fax
415.760.5454 /mobile
“Teamwork Makes the Dream Work”
www.coitgroup.com
I was wondering, have you read about CC-BY-SA license being not suitable for code?[1] It is NOT identical to GPL job and it doesn't have a large software community around it. Meaning that your code will not be usable for most of the free software community.
Please consider change your code to "GPLv3 or any later version" license and let your users enjoy the same rights and more!
[1]: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F
Kirby
I see that elena.net redirects on your site... Do you think that there are any conditions under which you can give it away? My family name is elena so I would be glad to get it.
Alin
var url = 'http://' + $.a.server + '/api/statuses/friends/' + $.a.user + '.json?callback=' + id;
Therefore the badge doesn't work for such users. Is there a way for the JS to check on the existence of friends and respond appropriately? I suppose I can ping Evan about that. :)
We are looking for a Front End Developer for a great cloud computing company in San Francisco. Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects with intelligent, highly educated people. It might be a great opportunity from someone at Yahoo or similar companies! Referral appreciated or just send someone my email address please!
Jay
jskreneck@exdir.com
I was trying to network with individuals who are looking or may know of others looking to for work within the Open Source community. We have a couple of really exciting opportunities in the Las Vegas area for Open Source Developers. I wanted to see if there were blogs or user groups that you would recommend for the Open Source community in general.
More specifically we are looking for developers with a Drupal OR Javascript, Perl, and CSS background.
I appreciate your time.
Kevin
kevin.mcnamee@teknetex.com
Given the impending demise of mybloglog, and an interest in owning my own foaf data & doing something fun with it, I'm interested in this bit in your foafster article:
"...nobody else in the world is presenting FOAF as a JSON object wrapped in the callback of your choice, if you ask nicely, using format=json&callback=foo. Although it's possible to run anybody's FOAF object through Pipes and get JSON back, MyBlogLog cuts out the middleman by being brave enough to serve it all up live..."
The only existing pipe I've looked at that provides an option to squeeze an arbitrary foaf url into json is Mark Woodman's at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=vNFSWgPk2xGBAoRllfXiAA, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to replace your line of code in foafster.js that reads:
var url = 'http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/' + id + '/foaf?format=json&callback=' + callback;
Or am I on the wrong track? Any hints?
Thanks!
Jeremy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/145320919/
... in this story:
http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/god-atheists-flying-spaghetti-monster
... and then went on to create a Now Public profile for me, here:
http://www.nowpublic.com/np-1-360358
... which states that I write for Now Public about Culture, Flying, Intelligent, Kansas, Monster, Pasta, San, Diego, and Religion. Absolutely none of this is true, especially the part about Kansas. :)
I'd rather not take the trouble to click your Unsubscribe link; would you mind taking care of it for me? You could drop that bogus profile while you're at it, so this doesn't happen again in the future.
Thanks!
Just wanted to address your tweet about NowPublic. Looks like you posted this a while back:
http://my.nowpublic.com/pastafarians-drive-minis
That is why you are in our member list. Happy to take you off the newsletter list. Just click the unsubscribe link.
Thanks, Mike. (co-founder, NowPublic).
Yuping: YouTube? Seriously? Worst, weakest social network EVER. If you must, check out YouTube Outgrows Shy Adolescence, Goes Social, on the YouTube API Blog.
Louigi: I'm sure you could use a much simpler solution to just show your own Laconica/Identica posts; as has been noted already, my Identica badge is really heavy and in need of refactoring. Here's the endpoint (which I had a heck of a time sussing out):
http://[server]/api/statuses/user_timeline/[user].json
My Identica updates, for example, are here:
http://identi.ca/api/statuses/user_timeline/kentbrew.json
You might want to try pulling down a copy of the badge JS and substituting that endpoint for the /api/statuses/friends one that's currently being called. You could also use a Yahoo! Pipes badge and point it to your own RSS feed.
I am using your great identi.ca badge. I wondered whether it can be configured in such a manner that it would show only my timeline - several latest messages - instead of giving only 1 latest message and friends (which I do not have). I want the visitors of my site to just read my microblog, but have it embedded. Can it be done?
I was a part of the Cal State East Bay Alumni Association Event about a month ago that you spoke at. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to you speak and wanted to speak with you. I am starting a new job in which I need to build my company's database thorugh social networking sites to attain a larger audience than they have now. I would like to speak with you or meet with you to pick your brain to see best ways of doing that. I would be happy to treat you to lunch, dinner or pay you for your time. Please let me know when is a good time to connect.
Zubin Koshy
After the post below from "B. Obama" appeared, I looked through my server logs. If you aren't familiar with how this works, the first number is the client's IP (Internet Protocol) address, which changes from time to time but never within the same browsing session. Next come the date and time at the server, followed by the page the client asked for and the page the client came from.
Here our visitor arrives from a Google search for "BOYD tobias san jose." As of this writing, the number-one result on Google for this search string is In Which Tom Boyd Punches my Wife in the Face, which is the sad story of events at a family Thanksgiving in 2007:
69.228.195.44 [13/Aug/2009:17:42:43 -0700] "GET /tom-boyd-punched-my-wife-in-the-face/" "http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=BOYD+tobias+san+jose&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8"
Here our visitor goes from In Which Tom Boyd Punches my Wife in the Face to my home page:
69.228.195.44 [13/Aug/2009:17:43:05 -0700] "GET /" "http://kentbrewster.com/tom-boyd-punched-my-wife-in-the-face/"
Here our visitor goes to Contact Me, the page you're reading right now:
69.228.195.44 [13/Aug/2009:17:44:00 -0700] "GET /contact/" "http://kentbrewster.com/"
Here our visitor posts the message immediately following this one:
69.228.195.44 [13/Aug/2009:17:46:56 -0700] "POST /make-post/" "http://kentbrewster.com/contact/"
After checking Google myself I think it highly unlikely that anyone searching for this particular phrase, "BOYD tobias san jose," could be looking for anything other than In Which Tom Boyd Punches my Wife in the Face.
"Tobias" and "san jose" are the street and city of Mr. Boyd's address, as noted on In Which Tom Boyd Punches my Wife in the Face, so whoever was doing the searching seems to have already known the answer, and was only checking to see if the page was still there.
Yes, In Which Tom Boyd Punches my Wife in the Face is still there, because there's been nothing even remotely resembling an apology from Mr. Boyd. There have been legal proceedings, a plea bargain, and sentencing, but no apology. Perhaps it's time for an update.
Are you still a freakin idiot with absolutely no personality or common sense?
We are connected through Nicole Gregory at Digg. Do you know any good UI/Javascript/Ajax Architects looking for a job in San Francisco? I am working with the CTO of this well funded Web/Social Networking company.
Thanks!
Joe Jeffrey
joe@xcreek.com
http://www.aplusperfect.com/articles/how-flash-drives-fail
http://www.aplusperfect.com/usb-flash-drive-data-recovery
i stumbled over your page during my researches for an MashUp to search delicious.
As you stated on the Delicious Search Exploder-Page you used in your Mashup
YQL, Pipes, and a couple of native feeds.
It would be nice if you were so kind and answere me a few questions.
My questions are:
1. wich native feeds do you used for your search.
2. why do you used Pipes when you can already make a YQL search like
this
select * from feed where url="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/"
Hope to hearing from you
Best regards Jeremy S.
Thanks for writing about my ACM conference browser (Conference-o-Matic) on the Yahoo! hack day blog! Would it be possible to update the link to a more permanent URL, e.g. http://cs.stanford.edu/~rlantz/acmbrowser or http://conference-o-matic.appspot.com ?
Thanks!
Bob
p.s. It should work a bit better now also. ;-)
I have an i-touch. I have a playlist that is about 45 mins. of music. I used to put it on at night, with a small speaker, to help me sleep and it would shut off at the end of the playlist. Now, for some reason - possibly that my eleven year old was playing wit hthe i-touch, it won't shut off after 45 mins. but keeps on playing throughout the night. Is there any way to shut it off without waking up?
thanks again.
jr.
Stephanie
(650) 637-8381
We are currently looking for an Evangelist who will serve as the primary spokesperson for Palm to market-oriented press, analysts and developers within the web applications market segment. This new executive will excite the Palm developer community and will have overall responsibility for presenting to, and supporting, the next generation of Palm’s 3rd party developer network.
Based in Sunnyvale, California, and reporting to the SVP, Business Development this person will act as a company spokesperson, passionately promoting Palm’s platforms and developer proposition. The new Palm Evangelist will possess a strong technical acumen particularly in the areas of application and web development as well as experience in web-based distribution and support systems. In light of the visibility of this position, we require someone with superior communication skills as well as a natural executive presence.
I would definitely like to chat with you about this opportunity when you have a moment. If this is not an opportunity you interested in pursuing at this time, I would still like to chat with you to see what thoughts you have on potential candidates. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Kelli
Kelli W. Telling
Director
m: 949-374-9913
email: kelli@ walkertalentgroup.com
website: http://www.walkertalentgroup.com
I'm a tech reporter at the Silicon Valley Business Journal and would like to know more about Yahoo Hack Day tomorrow. Please contact me as soon as is convenient for you, thanks!
-Tony
SVBJ
408.299.1830
I just bought an iTouch and stupidly bought the upgrade to version 2.0 from iTunes before realizing I could hack my device. Yours is the first page I've found that I kinda understand but I could really use some help in restoring the itouch and obtaining a way to allow third party applications. I am really new to the land of computers and, to be honest, and am afraid of screwing up either my computer or iTouch. I currently rin Windows Vista and I have iTunes version 7.7.0.43. Think I could trouble you for some help?
Thank you for your time and patience,
Sarah
Anyway, instead of the typical "your skills are greatly required for a super stealth-mode startup with amazing leadership blah blah blah", I'll keep it short and sweet.
I'm a front-end developer with Causes in Berkeley. We write software and web applications that help people accomplish and spread social good -- in other words, if you care about saving the dolphins, we provide you with the technology and ability to organize your friends around your cause and make donations to a relevant non-profit.
We're looking to hire great engineers and technical leaders, etc. If you're interested, drop me a line and we can talk.
http://code.causes.com/jobs
Thanks.
I hope all is well. I received your information from a colleague of mine, and I would like to discuss with you an opportunity I have available with a Sequoia Capital and Norwest Ventures backed stealth mode startup based in the Sunnyvale. Please contact me ASAP so we can discuss this opportunity in greater detail. This is a time sensitive matter.
Here is a brief description:
My client is developing a system solution to solve mobility problems faced by service providers, small to medium size businesses and large enterprises. Our technology enables customers to make their work force smarter and mobile, simplify roll-out of mobile applications and services, and promote greater teamwork and productivity.
Requirements:
4+ years of experience in developing web based applications
Expert JavaScript skills.
Strong HTML/DHTML/CSS with an eye for good looking design.
Solid experience with AJAX Apps and an understanding of the principals involved in writing them.
Strong understanding of DOM programming and cross browser issues.
Experience programming with Spring, MVC, and Apache Velocity.
CS degree preferred. Start-up experience is also desirable but not required.
Compensation includes competitive base, large equity plan, benefits, and a true startup environment. The CEO’s previous company was bought by Cisco for $500 million.
Take a look at let me know what you think. If you are interested, please reply with an updated copy of your résumé in Word format and good time to discuss this opportunity. Also, please forward this on to some of your colleagues, who might be interested, we’ll definitely take care of you!
I look forward to hearing from you!
Thanks,
Michael
____________________
Michael Gurtiza
Sr. Executive Recruiter
Coit Staffing, Inc.
500 Sansome St. #510
San Francisco, Ca. 94111
office: 415.433.5200 ext. 410
Hi, Arjun. It sounds like you want the badge to tell the CMS to send the e-mail when somebody interacts with it. I'm not sure why you want to do this with a badge; if it's an independent piece of JavaScript it will need to know which user to send mail to, and I can't think of a way to do that that doesn't involve an open cookie, a login/password form inside the badge, or other gaping security hole. Please be careful out there.
Wanted to try your ransomizr ... unfortunately it doesnt seem to be working :((
Kindly Check
I wanted to tie a web badge in with an existing CMS that I have on my site. What I am trying to do is have the CMS automatically generate a code and e-mail it to a user, who would be specified in the CMS. Would you be willing to guide me with this implementation, or discuss setting something up for your assistance?
well... the twitterati badge just broke down!!!
now is asking for a login/password... :(
(check it on your site)
please, please help!... yours is the best twitter badge ever!
Many people said that they had been thinking of a concept similar to Trade A Favor, and that's precisely my reaction to your open profiles post. It's a "man, I have *just* been thinking about that" reaction.
I hope you get an opportunity to add our prototype to your Facebook application and give us some feedback. You had also expressed interest in schooling us on the wonders of APIs, even for startups like us working within the Facebook API. Talk to you soon.
http://www.tradeafavor.com
Arodicus: one of my goals for the project was NOT to require immediate execution of the closure upon load. There could potentially be hundreds of badges--including multiple instances of the same script--on the page at once, or a very large page beneath a badge at the top of source order, and the delay in perceived load time wasn't acceptable.
It's a valid side branch to explore, however, and I will continue to do so in future. Requiring the script to know its own name is a major pain point.
var thisScript = /badges.js/ (near the bottom)
with this function:
var thisScript = (function(){
var scr=document.getElementsByTagName('script');
return scr[scr.length-1].getAttribute("src");
})();
...eliminates the need for entering the scripts path if you give it a different name.
Then a question for Kent about FOAFster : would it be possible to use it outside of this Web site with a FOAF page comming from anywhere ? I really like the idea and the design :)
Thanks
I am amazed by the mashup work you do.
These days I am looking for information about LinkedIn API.
When I have searched for it in API category on http://www.programmableweb.com/
You are the only guy who has worked on it.
There is an article which says 'LinkedIn to avoid 'API free for all http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/364404/linkedin-to-avoid-api-free-for-all.html
I am desperately looking for some information about
1) How to get access of the linkedin API / REST spec.
or
2) Whom to contact in Linked in to get access for linkedin API / REST spec.
An email to developers@linkedin.com has not been of any use so far.
I will be grateful to you if you could please provide me the necessasary infomation to start on this.
Thanks in anticipation,
Regards,
Vijayender
We annually host this event and invite several keynote speakers. We are really interested in having you as one of our speakers.
Please let me know how I you would be interested in attending and I could send you more information.
Thanks
Andres Garza
I am interested in purchasing permanent textlink advertising at some specific pages of
http://kentbrewster.com/
let me know if interested so that we can discuss it further. I can make a good offer to make it worth your time.
Let me know!
Thanks
Christan Michael
Question: Would you have a back up of the Mill? I would hope to beg a copy of my author topic, if possible. I'm slowly transferring the odd relevences over to my LJ now. But the Google cached has expired, I think...
root device is mounted read-only
if you want to make modifications to files
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
if you wish to boot the system
exit
mar 4 launch[12]: can't exec /bin/sh for single user: no such file or directory.
My problem is that I don't have a keyboard input option here to allow it continue or exit, nor does it recognize in itunes so I can't just set it back to 1.1.1.
Your thoughts would be much appreciated! THANKS!
root device is mounted read-only
if you want to make modifications to files
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
if you wish to boot the system
exit
jan 24 launch[12]: can't exec /bin/sh for single user: no such file or directory.
My problem is that I don't have a keyboard input option here to allow it continue or exit, nor does it recognize in itunes so I can't just set it back to 1.1.1.
Your thoughts would be much appreciated! THANKS!
Skyward ho!
Gregory Koster
Thanks,
David
I really enjoyed your session on social data at the SD Forum event at Yahoo! last week. It was one of the better SDForum sessions in a little while - there was a lot of interesting information packed into a short time. Your bookmarklet was really cool, although it's freaky how much public information about a person can be extracted by working backwards through the API and on to other social sites.
I've posted an article about it on my blog:
Social Data: Observations from "Search & The Social Graph" Event
Cheers!
Nitin
Software Abstractions blog
Singleuser boot --fsck not done
root device is mounted read-only
if you want to make modifications to files
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
if you wish to boot the system
exit
jan 24 launch[12]: can't exec /bin/sh for single user: no such file or directory.
My problem is that I don't have a keyboard input option here to allow it continue or exit, nor does it recognize in itunes so I can't just set it back to 1.1.1.
Your thoughts would be much appreciated! THANKS!
http://oldversion.com/program.php?n=mmatch
CrowdVine looks very interesting; how's that going for you?
Sorry, Jay. I took a quick look at Snapfish and I can't find anything resembling an API. I'll keep looking, but the prognosis seems pretty grim. Good luck, and please check back here if you do find something that works.
Wondering if there are any tools to do this: I have several pics (more than 2 gig) on (sick) Snapfish and would like to copy/download my OWN pictures without paying them money (for each 50 pics $10, I need to rob a bank!)
IF you know/have some idea, please post it! I am really thankful for your help!
Jake
Best,
Kyle
Thanks, I loved that damned mindless game.
JM