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last.twit – Dashboard widget
May 1st
Oliver just released his latest creation. A Mac OS X Dashboard Widget that displays the album covers of your latest played songs via Last.fm. What I love most is that, when you click on one of the cover pictures the Widget displays some more info about that particular song and also lets you send the song details to Twitter 
Download the Widget:
- from Apple
- or directly from Oliver’s Page
Jeff Atwood: When In Doubt, Make It Public
Apr 24th
Jeff Atwood wrote a funny (and very true) article about what’s new or not so new in these Web 2.0 days. I especially had to laugh at the idea that “new” ideas on the net are merely replicas of old UNIX tools introduced by Marc Hedlund.
talk, finger ICQ LISTSERV DejaNews ls Yahoo! directory find, grep rn Bloglines pine Google Mail mount Amazon S3 bash Yahoo! Pipes wall
Go and check out the full posting: Coding Horror: When In Doubt, Make It Public.
And make sure you also read the comments for some more funny ideas.
Coda – a web dvelopment IDE
Apr 23rd
Panic today announced a great new application called Coda.
It is a fully integrated web development IDE consisting of several parts.
- A licensed SubEthaEdit (my absolute favourite) as text editor
- Their awesome Transmit as integrated tool to transfer files back and forth
- A dedicated CSS editor
- Reference Books for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. Fully searchable and integrated with the app
- A Terminal Application for the occasional SQL work or tailing a logfile
This app looks really promising, I can’t wait to try it out and see if it suits my workflow.
LastVenue – toying around with RSS
Apr 3rd
Out of pure boredom and because I did enough work on my thesis today (...and because there wasn't anything decent on TV), I decided to distract myself with a little coding. This is what came out:
Just download it, rename the filename ending to .php, configure it by pasting in the last.fm URL of your desired location and upload it to your webserver. You will also have to download SimplePie that takes care of the all the RSS stuff and place it in the same directory as the LastVenue script.
If you want to include it into a PHP script paste in the following:
Note: the AJAX loding functions got skipped, because I'm really tired right now. Maybe they'll show up in version 2.0 ...who knows?
Demo
include('lastVenue.php');
This script pulls all events for a specific venue from last.fm and lists them in a simple, CSS styleable unorderd list. The script is meant to be included into a webpage and thus features none of the other HTML markup to make it into a full document. It basically only echoes out a headline and a few list items.
Oh yea, of course the script is Microformats enabled ;)
Note: the AJAX loding functions got skipped, because I'm really tired right now. Maybe they'll show up in version 2.0 ...who knows?
Demo