Javascript Toolkits; Web Programming

So I've started working with the Dojo Toolkit -- mostly because I ran the demo for it, and I was impressed by what it could do out of the box. It does have a very nicely featured demonstration set. I've mentioned this to some friends and colleagues, and instead of thoughts or experiences with this toolkit, I got back a whole bunch of comments about why I chose to work with Dojo and not "...

6 Aug 2008 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Twitter by Proxy

So, I'm done with twitview. Twitview uses the web server (vollink.com) to pull my twitter data feed. Once pulled, I turn links into links. The twittering view at the right side of this blog now uses twitview, as does the open-social app that I wrote for my iGoogle. I also added twitview to my main homepage. Another advantage of this, is that my twitter feed is now also proxied, so will be visible in places where twitter may become blocked or banned....

13 Jul 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Google Apps, iGoogle and Facebook

I've added Google Apps to my domain. I had already started handing pieces of my domain to Google when I started letting them host my blog. At the same time, I'm starting to take pieces back. More on that later... I started playing with the Open Social API today. Really simple thing -- I realized that I wanted to put some basic, static HTML in a box on both my Facebook page and to my iGoogle page....

12 Jul 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink