The Idea
I had a brilliant idea yesterday, and couldn’t wait to get home so I could start coding it. Things were moving along great. I had my database created, I’d gotten Code Igniter configured and running with my standard set of libraries, helpers, etc. and I was hammering away at some code.
Damnation
And then it happened. I got to the heart and soul of the application: the part that interacted with the NewsGator API. Almost instantly, my entire world crashed in around me.
What’s that? You’ve never dealt with the NewsGator API? Consider yourself lucky. Only murderers and rapists should be doomed to such a fate. The NewsGator API is by far, and without a doubt, the worst API I have ever dealt with - and I’ve dealt with quite a few in the past.
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At the end of the Yahoo! javascript videos I mentioned earlier, they include links to all the major documentation sources for browser Javascript implementations. For convenience, I thought I’d just link to all of them right here on a single page:
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This morning I’ve been watching a series of videos put out by Yahoo! regarding Javascript. While I consider myself pretty adept at Javascript these days, the first video gives you a great intro to some of the basic concepts of Javascript. For example:
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There was a user in the #wordpress IRC channel who was having some problems with his database’s comment_count field being incorrectly updated when deleting comments.
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Anyone who’s ever tried it knows that the search functionality on the Wordpress Codex sucks horribly. In #wordpress, we have a bot that utilizes the Google site: query attribute to search Google’s listings for the codex, but sometimes you want to be able to search from your own web browser, not by going through an IRC bot.
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