http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work My name is Bill. This is a place for me to keep track of my work and personal programming projects. Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:29:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en from the two best kids in the world. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from The Soistmann Family http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/12/25/my-christmas-goodies/ On Wednesday, I posted more info about how to clean up my weekly del.icio.us links. There are a few things I'd like to do before I wrap this up. change all tags and attributes to lowercase close every dt element close every dd element make things a bit more automatic If we take a closer ... http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/04/03/posting-delicious-links-to-wordpress-finishing-up/ On Monday, I posted some info about how I am thinking of posting my weekly links. Today I want to make one correction to the process, talk details about how to clean up the diff file, and then put together a quick script to do that part automatically. Once again, I ... http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/04/01/cleaning-up-my-delicious-links/ I’ve been using del.icio.us to share links since 2005. I’ve always used another method for bookmarking links for myself, but del.icio.us has been my favorite method for the sharing of interesting links. Before del.icio.us I had a separate linkblog so right away I wanted a way to display my shared ... http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/03/30/posting-delicious-links-weekly-to-wordpress/ I recently wrote a series of posts detailing the way I chose to scrape iTunes for ratings information for Bailout America, an iPhone game we released recently. Read more at thedoedoeblog. http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/03/27/scraping-the-itunes-store/ LeftLink was a collection of interesting links with re-written headlines. The project slowed to a complete halt due to the time necessary to maintain it manually. So, it was brought back to life as an aggregation of progressive info using the simple mechanism I put together for iPhoneDeck. http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/03/25/leftlink/ iPhoneDeck uses simple PHP with Magpie to display iPhone related information from RSS feeds. You can easily set something like this up yourself even if you have very little experience with this kind of thing. Download Magpie and upload the magpie folder to your webspace and get started I set mine up ... http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/03/23/iphonedeck/ I set up my newest website, getmetstickets.com, as a way to help fans who might not otherwise be able to attend. Learn more about my motivation on my blog. http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/03/22/getmetsticketscom/ I frequently find myself in need of sending a list of links to a friend. I'm very comfortable with keyboard shortcuts so sometimes, I just do CTRL+space - Te - enter - command+tab - command+l - command+c - command+w - command+tab - command+v - well, you get the idea. Sometimes ... http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/03/17/turning-a-list-of-links-into-one-link/ AppTheater is a video sharing site centered around iPhone apps. You can watch thousands of iPhone related videos or upload some of your own. We set this up as a preview of apps. Many of the videos give you a nice demo of the app for your consideration before purchase. You ... http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/03/16/apptheater/ I served as program manager for an iPhone app which was recently released at the App Store. The game is called Bailout America (iTunes Link) and it is a real blast. Check out the game's homepage here. Seems to be a hit so far. We've had a couple of mentions that ... http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/03/15/bailout-america/ Here is a quick little Python script I use to inspect environment variables. http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/02/16/environment-variables/ Amazing uderstanding of wordpress, this guy really knows what he is doing. excellent work. thanks very much Bill!! RentBackDirect http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/02/12/rent-back-direct/ Great Programmer! Very easy to work with, good comunication skills, got what I wanted, understood every problem 100%! Highly recommend for your project! ....Thanks! alinks script repairs and mods http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2009/02/12/alinks-repairs/ I've taken down some of my personal projects in a planned resurrection and renovation. The first one to come back up will probably be my anti-MLM blog which was a big hit the first time around. I will keep you posted on my progress. http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2008/06/01/resurrection/ I plan to use this category to post tips and tricks - mostly as a reminder to myself. It would be nice if they are helpful to someone else too. http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2008/06/01/code-fragments-and-tips/ Book post. http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2008/05/31/book/ I set up a custom WordPress theme to be used as a complete CMS for this website. http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2007/12/07/wordpress-as-a-cms/ I set up a map for a client who wanted to track firefly sightings in Europe. I don't remember all of the specs on this one but I know Users can click to add a sighting Users can upload sightings in bulk if they have lat and long data It uses the lat/long scheme ... http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2007/07/12/google-maps-click-to-add/ Boist did a great job on this project. It was completely quickly and accurately. He even went above and beyond to ensure it was done right. ReallyCheckYourself http://whsjr.soistmann.com/work/2007/06/25/reallycheckyourself/