Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

Sharing Links

Friday, May 28th, 2010

a.bookmarklet { text-decoration: none; border: 1px solid #bbb; margin: 1em; padding: .5em; -moz-border-radius: .5em; -webkit-border-radius: .5em; } Sometimes I make a tool that I use for a while and then wonder if it’s something others will find useful too. Here’s one of them… For a while I was sharing links on my home page by [...]

RSS Feed Monitor – Update

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

I updated the RSS Feeds Monitor I wrote in Python last month to enable database logging as well as a debug mode which prints output to the console. Both the new code and the old code are available.

PHP Texas Hold ‘Em

Monday, September 18th, 2006

I’ve been quite obsessed with poker lately. Between the WSOP and the WPT, it’s not hard to pick up poker strategy from TV. Along those lines, I decided to write a web-based poker game. For now, the game deals hands of Hold ‘Em and picks out the best 5 card poker hand. Eventually I’d like to expand the game to include computer players and allow multiple human players to play against each other online. Feel free to check out the source.

RSS Feed Monitor

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

I wrote a Python script that monitors RSS feeds for specified keywords and then sends emails to notify you of new posts.

My eBay Watch List

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

I made my first foray into the immense eBay API. Using eBay’s authentication token technology, I wrote a function that allows web developers to print the items from a user’s My eBay without using their site credentials. Check out the write-up.