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We Are Hunted

This site has just launched and I have to say it is… Wicked. Awesome.

It sits and automatically scours social networking sites, forums and even P2P networks to calculate the most popular, emerging music and then builds a top 99 chart. And if the concept wasn’t cool enough the implementation is amazing. A design that is plain gorgeous, very slick functionality, no screen clutter, all works very efficiently. And it uses jQuery. I love this site already and can see it getting a lot of attention over the next fews - could something finally have managed to fill thesixtyone shaped whole in my heart?

March 16

Smack My Enya Up

January 28

“ All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France

December 21

Bring easy SOAP communication back into Flash AS3

December 3

New Best Video on YouTube Ever

November 23

The greatest video to ever appear on YouTube? Possibly.

September 15

Install IE 6 without having to downgrade - makes things slightly less painful

August 21

PHP Explorer - Update

I’ve just done a few updates to my little PHP Explorer application for navigating and editing files on a webserver and it’s suddenly shaping up to quite a handy wee app. Here’s the main updates:

Completely hide specified file types
Turn off editing
Turn off deleting
Turn off file/folder creation
Tooltips now show filesize and last modified time/date
Users cannot navigate further up the file structure than the location of index.php
HTML pages now save properly
Automatic backup is made every time a file is edited
Random query string added when viewing pages to avoid caching

Next I’ll be looking at using this as a light-weight replacement to the ruddy awful Contribute.

August 12

Badly Placed Internet Ads

July 19

Who Will Win?

July 4

Who Will Win?

I was looking at my web stats for the first time in quite a while the other day and was surprised to see the second most popular page on the entire site is Who Will Win? Who Will Win was a little web game I’d built using ASP and an Access database, it was essentially a huge stack of mini binary-choice polls, things like Transformers vs Thundercats. This game stopped being an active part of the site quite a while back, a year at least and I hadn’t even realised that it was still working and yet it seems it is and someone somewhere must have bookmarked the link and is still playing it which is truly bizarre. So this got me thinking that if there’s still demand for it, even though the game is no longer public then why not bring it back? So I’ve overhauled the server side of the code and am working on a jazzy JQuery AJAX front end and will probably update the database of things to vote on as well (the Michael Jackson vs All That Is Good feels like it is in a little poor taste now) and then make it live on the site again. Was also thinking it might make an interesting excuse to toy around with the Facebook applications API as well.

June 24