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CD Cover Gallery is pretty much done
I made my albumCollection.php class versatile enough that it was easy to just crank out an album cover gallery. I spent most of my time in the last 24 hours fixing up the csv file so that the maximum...
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Damn PHP Coders
Update: People keep finding this post in search engines, I’ve continued to work on my mashup codebase and complain about PHP, web services, and documentation. I’ve written way more PHP than I ever...
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CD Collection Browser Mashup is basically done
I’m not happy with the track listing portion. I wanted to get previews of the songs on the album and I thought I could get this information from Amazon Product API, I even found an example of what...
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Random CD Mashup is basically done
Amazon.com is still throttling me so I haven’t been able to debug all my methods or add more audio previews to my mashups. I still get information from the iTunes Store Search API, Last.fm, and...
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How to make a web mashup
Or at least how I made several web mashups using PHP and various APIs. I should have written this post sooner and I should have created my latest greatest mashup sooner, now I’ll really get to see how...
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DVD Collection Gallery Proof of Concept
Although I took a long break I’m back to writing PHP. I’m still not enamored with PHP, but I’ve put too much time into it now to leave my code missing key features. The features I’ve been working on...
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Updated my PHP mashup code
As my latest period of unemployment continues to lengthen I’ve worked on an ever larger collection of PHP code that I’ve written and used to make several web mashups. As I’ve learned of new APIs I’ve...
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CD Cover Gallery PHP Code
After finally getting my web mashup code into GitHub I spent a lot of time ensuring the code was easy to read and well commented. The code still needs testing on another box than that used by my...
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Finding audio previews for album tracks in iTunes with PHP
When I started building my mashups with PHP one idea I had was to fetch audio previews for songs and albums, this was supposedly possible with the Amazon Product Advertising API, but I could never get...
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My Favourite Albums
I keep trying to improve my various web mashups as APIs change and I pick up a new trick or two. One idea I had was to decrease the number of albums from every CD I own to say one hundred. I thought...
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My PHP classes for making web mashups
Far too much work has gone into these classes. I’d much rather be working on a real project for a real organization, rather than forcing myself to write PHP. I don’t even like PHP, I just knew it was...
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albumCollection.php is starting to come together
I never set out to write this much PHP code. But after seeing what passes for a PHP API to access Amazon Product Information, well I vowed to do a good job on my PHP class, even though it was intended...
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CD Cover Gallery is pretty much done
I made my albumCollection.php class versatile enough that it was easy to just crank out an album cover gallery. I spent most of my time in the last 24 hours fixing up the csv file so that the maximum...
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Built More Flat-pack Furniture
As alluded to in a previous blog posts, I recently moved into a new (to me) condo in Calgary’s Beltline. As part of my master plan I decided to buy a new bigger piece of flat-pack furniture to replace...
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