TTMMHTM: Evangelist Handbook, Billboard charts API, collaborative editing, IE6 bashing, pretty JSON, fancy fast food and terrible bugs.
Things that made me happy this morning
I’m working on a handbook for developer evangelists (the outline is here) and I am 7000 words in – after 2 days of writing. - Billboard have released an API which gets you access to all kind of music charts. I’d love to mash that up with the Spotify API, but I won’t buy a premium account just to do some hacking.
- EtherPad is a very cool tool for collaborative text editing. Much like SubEthaEdit for the web – or like Bespin of course
- Vanish is an solution to create web content that self destructs after a certain time (much like these messages in the spy movies).
- Hey IT is a campaign to tell your IT department just how much IE6 makes kitty cry.
- phMagick is not a skin conditioner, but a pretty cool PHP wrapper for imageMagick to convert images, add drop shadows and so on. CSS3 for all browsers!
- JSON Formatter is a validation and pretty printing tool for JSON.
- There is a pretty sweet isometric timeline animation of the international space station at USA Today (you know, the newspaper you always stumble over when you leave hotel rooms)
- Fancy Fast Food shows you how you can turn fast food into very pretty meals
- 10 historical software bugs with disastrous consequences teaches us to fix our code.
Tags: api, billboard, bugs, developer evangelism, editing, fastfood, formatting, hack, history, ie6, imagemagick, iss, JSON, php, prettyprint, security, software, spacestation
July 24th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Really looking forward to your release of the evangelist’s handbook. (Am assuming you will release it, since there’s a donate button.)
July 24th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Instead of Spotify you might want to play with the Last.fm API ?
July 24th, 2009 at 10:42 am
@michael of course I will release it. The donation button is just me being a trusting hippie again who thinks people will appreciate my efforts :)
July 24th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Hi Chris,
I’m glad you liked phMagick, thanks for the reference
cheers
nuno costa
July 28th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Thanks for supporting the action we’ve put up. Just so you know, we started a Flickr group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/hey-it/ and even decided, since actions speak louder than words, to invade a company ourselves. Check the movie at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlGux4Z2nf8 ;)