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I created an app on Facebook using their API. It's called 'Wishes'. It was inspired largely by the 'cheer' idea that I'm using for songs on this site.
Anyways, the way it works is that each user makes a 'wish' that gets added to their profile (as well as the global wish board). Then, other users 'cheer' the wish to help it come true.
If you think that sounds cool, or if you think it sounds really lame....well give it a try: http://apps.facebook.com/makewishes/
The only real purpose of this entry is to pop up in your RSS reader and get you to come to my site and see my new Song Display Module (tm).
Holy SHIT it is so sweet. It put my CSS and javascript/AJAX skills to the absolute limit, and took a good 9 hours straight of coding. But it's here, and it works.
Also, if you hadn't noticed, you can "Cheer" songs if you like them. Yes, it's a ripoff of Digg...whatever at least you don't have to register.
To download the songs, simply click the title or the image. Wooooooooot!
Okay, so it's not really finished. What I'm working on now is a way to link blog entries to songs, so that I can talk about songs I upload, and so that songs can have their own display page that displays the full title and info about the song. But I think what I have now is a great start!
So last night I excitedly uploaded a bunch of new code to this here website.
But it didn't work.
In a frenzy, I quickly tried to delete the post where I had been flaunting my new features. But too late, it had already been picked up by my facebook notes, and cached by Google Reader.
Anyways, I HAD tested my changes in my local environment, and everything had worked fine. But whatever, I'm not bitter. Apologies to anyone who read the 'Mr. Mustard' post and got their hopes up. I'm looking at re-implementing the file upload capacity with "acts_as_attachment" (a rails plugin) instead of using "file_column" (another rails plugin). And this time, I have set up a mechanism to test that everything works before the feature goes on the front page.
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Didn't know you had it. If I ever cooked, I would definitely use some of your recipes. Nice work!
I've decided to link my blog to facebook. Previously, I had resisted this, because I thought it would be the equivalent of spamming facebook. But it seems that nowadays facebook is doing a pretty good job of spamming itself, so whatever.
I'm also going to start posting songs on my blog here, in their own special section. Once I roll out that feature, I anticipate that I'll be aggressively promoting my blog, much more than I do now. So get ready!
Hey, that is pretty sweet. I like the "No more songs available" slot, I wouldn't have thought of adding that, but it's intuitive and professional.
I recommend adding "return false" to the end of your onClick handlers, which means that the anchors won't have an effect. This matters less since it's at the top of your page, but if I'm even a little bit scrolled down, clicking on them makes the page leap up to the top, which is a little disruptive. It's not a big deal, but it's a dirt simple addition. Your handler would go from "forward()" to "forward(); return false".
I'm gonna be doing a bunch of UI work to my music site soon -- maybe you just subconsciously influenced it!
Thanks for the tip. Implemented and deployed.
The 'no more songs' message is the else of my _song.rhtml partial. If the song is nil, that's what you get. I also 'grep' it (with javascript regex matching that is) in order to know when to disable the more link.
You didn't cheer anything, though! :(
Dude, I love the music- especially your cover of Mad World. It's like Jeff Buckley-guitar with punk rock vocals-- very very nice.
(also, clever "captcha" thing)
Application error
Rails application failed to start properly"
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