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Not a lot of updates to my personal projects lately. That’s because we’re very close to launching Wesabe. When? When it’s ready as Marc says. Luckily I had a bunch of unannounced stuff from way back. Here’s what changed:

Added the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue to I Heart Quotes. I found it on Archive.org and luckily it was in text format and easy to parse. Most of their books are in pdf or some other format that I don’t know how to parse, otherwise I’d be adding ancient medical terms and all sorts of other weird stuff.

Tagged all the quotes in I Heart Quotes. Now you can browse George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, and Comic Book Guy, among others.

Redesigned I Heart Quotes to accomodate all the new tags but hate how it turned out. Just read some design advice the other day along the lines of pick one thing that you want people to do on a page and make that twice as big as anything else. I think that one thing is clicking the random quote button. Going to give that a shot on the next design.

Added an IFRAME widget for quotes to the API page. Now you can put quotes on your website (like I did on my blog). People with fast and reliable servers build these widgets with Javascript. Unfortunately browsers pause page rendering until the javascript is downloaded and I wasn’t comfortable with that delay even on my own blog. IFRAMES don’t have that problem, so that’s what I’m using for now.

Twitter added RSS feeds which means you can subscribe to the iheartquotes RSS Feed of three quotes per day. Of course if you actually signed up for twitter you could get those same three quotes on your cell phone or GTalk account.

I’m starting a World’s Strongest Man fan site with my friend Adam White. So far I’ve just put up a bulletin board (PunBB) and there’s already 50 posts. I can’t wait until we add the Video. Adam was actually involved with the sport, I just like to watch people pull 747’s with their teeth.

It’s time for GemJack to get some more attention. It had stopped updating again, something I only noticed when I went to look for Blaine’s Jabber::Simple gem. Fixed two things that were stopping the update. We’ll see how that works.

My first Salesforce Article is in and set to publish next Tuesday. As I said in my Obvious Trends post, I’m really excited about trends that help engineers start small businesses. Salesforce is building development tools that are targeted right there.

Also we got a dog, Eggs. That was meant to be short for Eggs Benedict but he’s seeming more like a Scrambled Eggs. Got him used from Milo Foundation.

Tags: changelog, gemjack, iheartquotes, strongestman, twitter

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