I think so. Also, I believe you have dysentery.

I happened upon this Flickr feed today when perusing my google reader. Has some pretty choice material:

Don Solo’ Flickr Feed

So I finally broke down and signed up for Netflix. My roommate has it and his life seemed too good to be true because of this weekly crimson DVD in the mail. My life has now waned to a driveling mess as I fulfill my movie addiction directly from my living room.

That aside, the first problem I realized was that my roommate and my queue’s were constantly crossing over one another. He would have a DVD out I had next in my queue, or vice versa. Or even worse, we’d have two of the same DVD at the same time!

My solution seemed clear and simple: Use the Netflix API to pull in a feed of both of our feeds, and then parse those feeds with jQeury, only to finally compare them and see where our overlapping tastes lie. Thus, the crossing of the streams would end. Hopefully.

I plan to share my findings along the way, so lets jump into part one of my tutorial on jQuery and the Neflix API. Read the rest of this entry »

Todd Agulnick announced yesterday that his bookmark syncing service, Xmarks, will shutdown at the start of 2011:

As I write this, it’s a typical Sunday here at Xmarks. The synchronization service continues operating quietly, the servers chugging along syncing browser data for our 2 million users across their 5 million desktops. The day isn’t over yet, but we’re on track to add just under 3000 new accounts today.

Tomorrow, however, will hardly be anything but typical, for tomorrow one of our engineers will start a script that will email each of our users to notify them that we’ll be ceasing operations in around 90 days.

Browsers have been getting closer to what I would consider acceptable bookmark syncing, but none have done it close to as well as Todd’s creation. Xmarks is a remarkable service, one that I would definitely pay a fair premium for. Its not often that we get such a product that fills a much needed niche in our web centric lives, and for FREE!

I would gladly drop an Andrew Jackson for Xmarks. Don’t give up!

Took the State of Web Development Survey a few months ago, and the results came back this week. Definitely some interesting stuff, especially the amount of people using JQuery. You can download all the responses in CSV format here.

Thanks for this one Jake

Sunset on the 606

Finally, I dusted off my copy of photoshop and put something together for Design By Humans. I’ve been wanting to for a while, but as many people know, wanting and doing are very different things.

This shirt is based off of the building I lived in in college, and the idea that that lifestyle eventually comes to an end. Currently its just a submission. The way DBH works is based on the idea of one big ongoing tshirt design contest. The designs are done by the community, and voted on by the community. So get out and vote for mine!

_Rob

… IN AMAZING FASHION!

http://www.opera.com/?

_Rob

http://ie6update.com/

My buddy Joe sent this to me today, and I promptly added the code snippet to my website. IE6 Update looks like IE’s Information Bar, but instead of offering your visitors an ActiveX plugin, it offers a browser update. Even if it doesn’t bleed, someday IE6 will die.

Here is all you need to get it going. Just add the following snippet before your closing body tag:

<!--[if IE 6]>
<script type="text/javascript">
	/*Load jQuery if not already loaded*/ if(typeof jQuery == 'undefined'){ document.write("<script type="text/javascript"   src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></"+"script>"); var __noconflict = true; }
	var IE6UPDATE_OPTIONS = {
		icons_path: "http://static.ie6update.com/hosted/ie6update/images/"
	}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.ie6update.com/hosted/ie6update/ie6update.js"></script>
<![endif]-->

Alas, I will be on sandy beaches in Hawaii this week, but everyone else should check this out. Refresh Pittsburgh and On the Fridge, LLC. are putting on this nifty one day conference centered on web design. It will showcase some serious talent from the Pittsburgh area, as all the speakers are local to here. If you want to keep up on the web design scene here in the burgh, this is the place to go.

Info

webdesignday
Saturday April 4, 2009
8:30am – 5:00pm
Left Field Meeting Space
116 Federal St.
Pittsburgh, PA
$40 per person

Looks like they are limited to 85 registrations, so hit it up quick!

_Rob