I recently rewrote Hangman! (and also renamed it) For those who don’t know, Hangman! was my first Facebook app. I wrote it originally in June of 2007 and it silently lived on Facebook, deep deep within the depths of Application hell.
Archive for the ‘coding’ Category
Dictionary APIs are Fun.
As part of my Hangman! application on Facebook, I plan on adding word definitions. Like any good word app, it should tell you what the word means. I’m not a big fan of sending off users to other sites when I don’t have to, so I looked into some dictionary APIs. These APIs are hard [...]
ZF Tip: Don’t use ‘index’ as a module name.
I’ve been using Zend Framework for a while and when I do my own sites things always work as expected. But a couple of times in the past I’ve had the honor of working on other sites with other people that have lead me to a few ‘wtf?’ issues. The most recent one was as [...]
All I Need is REST, Vimeo, Flickr, Zend and More
Here’s my skeleton for my magical REST interface. It’s still missing a lot of method calls for Flickr and Vimeo, but the guts are there and the remaining methods will be done in priority when I need them. Right now it supports automatic caching and logging via simple options. At some point I’ll probably put [...]

