How to Save Effort when Developing Social Networking Apps

Posted by Prolific Programmer Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:10:00 GMT

Lunch found me in downtown Mountain View with Ted, from Meebo, who informed me that Rock You and Slide must expend 30% of their effort to port any application from Facebook to Open Social. I'm certain the people at both companies have heard of XSLT? Indeed Mr Ayers has a partial XSLT for the OpenSocial API! I'll try to further it over the weekend.

How to Remember Your Passwords

Posted by Prolific Programmer Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:08:00 GMT

Only if you use Firefox (if you don't get it!), but you can reveal the passwords for a certain website by typing the following javascript snippet into your addressbar.

Google Reader First Thoughts

Posted by Prolific Programmer Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:40:00 GMT

I must be the last person not to use a web-based aggregator for blogs. No more, though. I just started using Google Reader. One complaint: I can't add a page by URL, only by feed. It's very easy to solve this problem, indeed I will post code below that does it (in theory). I say, in theory, because ECMAscript is difficult to test at best.

tag = document.getElementByTagName('link');
return tag[0];

This ought to return the first link tag. Anyone have suggestions as to how to send the reader team feedback in a hurry?