web things
PandoraFM
At the end of last year I was lamenting not being able to pipe my music stats from Pandora to Last.fm. I found out via techcrunch recently that there’s a service that does this now, called PandoraFM. This is great to see; some time after my post, I’d layed out a convoluted plan [...]
Pragmatic Ajax
My copy of Pragmatic Ajax arrived today. In spite of having the worst cover design in the history of tech books, I have faith that it’s a quality title. At first glance, it seems to be structured a lot like the Agile Web Development with Rails book, and has sections on Dojo [...]
pull the other one
A couple of weeks ago Richard MacManus posted his list of the best web companies and innovators of 2005. Richard drew a conceptual line in the sand between the davids and goliaths and awarded the overall bigCo award to Yahoo! for their savvy aquisitions during the course of the year (notably flickr, deli.icio.us and [...]
Technorati Watchlists as RSS
Technorati watchlists are a great way of keeping track of who is talking about your favorite subjects. But they’re even easier to use when you can pipe them into your aggregator of choice and have it keep you up to date. There’s a slight trick to finding the URL of the RSS feed [...]
pandora and last.fm
Last.fm / audioscrobbler has an api and a protocol to push updates for music you’ve listened to into the audioscrobbler database. I would really love the guys from Pandora to consider adding support for sending updates to audioscrobbler into the pandora interface. At the moment all of the music I discover through Pandora [...]
using twill for web application testing
Twill is a new python based scriptlet language for web application testing. I’ve been trying it out over the past few days and I’m finding it really useful for automating routine testing tasks during development. I can also see that it would be a great tool for test driven development.
The syntax is pretty [...]
Listen Again
Pandora (the awesome music discovery service) now has a free version, which will eventually be advertising supported.
Ning!
Ning has launched! Ning is a playground for building and sharing social apps. Go check it out! Don’t forget to make a confession. Yes, I’m now working for them full time.