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July 31, 2008

July 30, 2008

'Get Twitter RSS with authentication' script for Mac OS RSS screen saver

<?
$url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss";
$ch = curl_init();    
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "your@email.here:password"); 
$result = curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch); 
echo $result; 
?>

Posted by pj at 03:31 PM | Comments (0)

July 29, 2008

MP3 ringtones on your iPhone

Got GarageBand? Create a new music project. Drag and drop your tune in as a new track. Trim it to less than 40 seconds. Choose

Share > Send Ringtone to iTunes

You're done.

Posted by pj at 07:04 PM | Comments (0)

July 28, 2008

Drupal on XAMPP

How to Install Drupal on an XAMPP installation | drupal.org

Posted by pj at 12:43 PM | Comments (0)

Collective Yesness?

Good Times!! : thechampionsoftheworld.org

Posted by pj at 12:34 PM | Comments (0)

Justin Townes Earle

Bloodshot Records: Justin Townes Earle

Posted by pj at 09:44 AM | Comments (0)

July 24, 2008

CrossOver Windows Games via Wine

Windows Games Seamlessly Integrated on Mac or Linux - CrossOver Games

Posted by pj at 10:38 PM | Comments (0)

JSON Validator

JSONLint - The JSON Validator.

Posted by pj at 01:29 PM | Comments (0)

July 23, 2008

Boosh Tour

The Mighty Boosh Tour 2008 Tickets

Posted by pj at 11:12 AM | Comments (0)

July 22, 2008

JANET txt service

JANET txt: SMS Software for education, SMS for students- PageOne

Posted by pj at 12:21 PM | Comments (0)

SAML

SAML XML.org | Online community for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) OASIS Standard

Also:

Ten things you should know about SAML

Posted by pj at 09:11 AM | Comments (0)

July 21, 2008

XSLT for Amazon AWS book search to JSON

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" id="amazon2json"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:aws="http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/2008-06-26"
                >
    <xsl:output method="text" indent="yes"/> 
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*" /> 
    <xsl:template match="/aws:ItemSearchResponse">
        {
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
        }
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="aws:Items">
        <xsl:for-each select="aws:Item">
            "<xsl:value-of select="aws:ASIN"/>" : {
            "isbn" : "<xsl:value-of select="aws:ASIN"/>",
            <xsl:if test="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Author">"authors" : [
            <xsl:for-each select="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Author">
                "<xsl:value-of select="."/>"
                <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
                <xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
                </xsl:if>
            </xsl:for-each>
                ],</xsl:if>
            <xsl:if test="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Author">
            "author" : "<xsl:for-each select="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Author">
                <xsl:value-of select="."/>
                <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
                <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
                </xsl:if>
            </xsl:for-each>",</xsl:if>
            "publisher" : "<xsl:value-of select="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Manufacturer"/>",
            "title" : "<xsl:value-of select="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Title"/>",
            "url" : "<xsl:value-of select="aws:DetailPageURL"/>",
            "price" : "<xsl:value-of select="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:ListPrice/aws:FormattedPrice"/>",
            "format" : "<xsl:value-of select="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Binding"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:ProductGroup"/>",
            "publication_date" : "<xsl:value-of select="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:PublicationDate"/>",
            "edition" : "<xsl:value-of select="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Edition"/>",
            "thumbnail" : "<xsl:value-of select="aws:MediumImage/aws:URL"/>"
            }
            <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
            <xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
            </xsl:if>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="aws:OperationRequest">
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="aws:ItemLinks">
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Posted by pj at 03:21 PM | Comments (0)

July 18, 2008

Amazon's Web Services and XSLT

XML.com: Amazon's Web Services and XSLT

Posted by pj at 04:44 PM | Comments (0)

XML to JSON in PHP

Convert XML to JSON in PHP

Posted by pj at 02:59 PM | Comments (0)

Example Amazon AWS search URL string

http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&AWSAccessKeyId=YOURKEYHERE&Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=Books&Title=Drupal

Posted by pj at 01:58 PM | Comments (0)

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Making Money with the Associates Program, and PHP

Posted by pj at 01:52 PM | Comments (0)

MARC21.py

MARC v1.0.0

Posted by pj at 10:57 AM | Comments (0)

TikiWiki Documentation

doc.tw.o : Tikiwiki Documentation : HomePage

Posted by pj at 10:28 AM | Comments (0)

Wiki Software Comparisons

Comparison of wiki software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Posted by pj at 10:02 AM | Comments (0)

July 17, 2008

Buddy Jesus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Christ

http://jayandsilentbob.com/budchrisdass1.html

Posted by pj at 11:13 PM | Comments (0)

Atom Categories

Tip: Organize content with Atom categories

Posted by pj at 04:49 PM | Comments (0)

Atom Syndication Format - Introduction

AtomEnabled / Developers / Atom Syndication Format

Atom Syndication Format - Introduction

Posted by pj at 04:10 PM | Comments (0)

AtomServer incorporating OpenSearch over REST

AtomServer; Getting Started

Posted by pj at 04:06 PM | Comments (0)

July 16, 2008

The RDF API for PHP

Introduction to RAP

Also and more usefully:

http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/rdfapi/tests.html

Posted by pj at 01:37 PM | Comments (0)

Drupal RDF Project Page

Resource Description Framework (RDF) | drupal.org

Also information about the four published modules themselves:

http://drupal.org/node/222788

Posted by pj at 12:49 PM | Comments (0)

Flikr Machine Tags

Flickr: Discussing Machine tags in Flickr API

Posted by pj at 12:43 PM | Comments (0)

July 15, 2008

Semantic Media Wiki

Semantic MediaWiki - semanticweb.org

Posted by pj at 04:47 PM | Comments (0)

Drupal DOES use PHPtal

PHPTAL theme engine | drupal.org

Posted by pj at 09:35 AM | Comments (0)

July 14, 2008

Screen resolution in X-Windows

http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2006/08/13/running-ubuntu-under-parallels-desktop-for-mac/

Posted by pj at 02:15 PM | Comments (0)

Running iTunes on Linux

Wine Reviews: Wine-Reviews.net | Winehq, Bordeaux, CodeWeavers, Darwine, Cedega, PlayOnLinux, winetricks, Wine-Doors, Linux, Ubuntu, Mac, OpenSolaris, Debian, FreeBSD, Windows

Posted by pj at 01:40 PM | Comments (0)

iCal creator class in PHP

iCalcreator

Posted by pj at 12:14 PM | Comments (0)

Drupal FAQ module

FAQ_Ask - "Ask the Expert" | drupal.org

Posted by pj at 11:21 AM | Comments (0)

Semantic markup for FAQs

Creating a semantic FAQ page with definition lists and advanced CSS, Part 1 | A Padded Cell

Posted by pj at 10:50 AM | Comments (0)

July 11, 2008

IEs on Linux

How to run Internet Explorer 7 in Mandriva 2007

Posted by pj at 04:02 PM | Comments (0)

July 10, 2008

RDF for Glossary Entries

<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example.org/specGL/20030210#discretionaryChoices">
  <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">discretionary choices</rdfs:label>
  <rdfs:comment>a value or behavior may be chosen from a well-defined enumerated set of two or more possibilities</rdfs:comment>
  <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-qaframe-spec-20030210/"/>
  ...
</rdf:Description>