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I’ve got myself a new problem to solve, routing on maps based on live traffic data. Well, before that I’ve got to add new commands to ShoutJam.
Confusing huh?
The beginning of something begins at the end of today which is also the beginning of a new month.
Hehee… The Captain Jack Sparrow way of explaining complex things LOL :)
I can’t stop jumping. After 3 days I got my bluetooth and computer talking thru python. Thats the beginning of something cool. And it’s the beginning of the month on a tuesday evening.
I just cleaned my cupboard and found a lot of old print-outs of tutorials and worked-out algorithms. Those were around 3 years old :) no wonder why I would still be having sessions and cookie tutorials for PHP which I then fancily called “Security Rings”. LOL.
Now after 3-4 years and half a dozen more languages into this deep web and programming pit, I know I was silly back then. So I’ve got a fact - I’m improving and making bigger mistakes now. :)
Today my favourites are: Python, Ruby, HAML (yeah! better way of writing HTML code). I still have to mess with JavaScript anyway. Anybody’s developing something like HAML for JavaScript?
Just downloaded and setup the Shindig OpenSocial container. Getting a ‘real’ social app requires Partuza to be installed. Our app Casbour runs fine on Partuza.
Note: To connect Shindig to Partuza’s social graph, you need to deploy php classes and connect these classes to Shindig via the a local.php file or container.php file in the config dir of Shindig.
Thanks to Chris Chabot for help me out.
Learnt how to use OAuth in OpenSocial apps. It took a dozen-dozen page refreshes and reuploads of my application to get this right.
Update: I just put up the project at http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-css-kit/
The project is still an alpha. I’ll continue developing this one.
Just started working on a new app with pd.
The idea was the outcome ot a chat session. pd just mentioned the idea and we agreed to work on it. And almost everything was on the floor immediately. Just within hours. It was around 3PM in the evening when PD mentioned the idea and after a while at 9PM we had the UI mockup and decided on the database models. pd is doing the development on AppEngine which we decided to have as our app server. I completed the conversion of the UI mockup to HTML. I used HAML and BluePrintCSS to get the job done. The HTML code looks way cleaner and easier to maintain with HAML.
Also, I edited the BluePrintCSS framework to be used with Orkut-OpenSocial. I’ve still got to strip the package off some code to make it compact only with the required modules.
I’m gonna call it the “OpenSocial CSS Kit”. Currently the CSS Kit supports only Orkut. Will add support for more containers in the future. I’ll put up the download links soon.
Finally, I could design a fairly attractive UI for my app. Got to work with Haml and I’m beginning to understand more than the bare bones of Rails.
My first road accident. I tripped over a stone while driving. Ah! I’m not immobilized. I can still win a limping race.
Thought creating a Wordpress plugin was tough. But now it seems like a cake walk. My plugin doesn’t do anything special. It just displays “Hello World” at the end of every post :)
Got a feel of Ruby for the first time. I used the online app TryRuby at http://tryruby.hobix.com. Cool app showing off a cool language.
