[Dot] Code Dump » code http://www.dotcodedump.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:27:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Creating a simple Twitter AJAX widget using Google Feeds API http://www.dotcodedump.com/2009/02/creating-a-simple-twitter-ajax-widget-using-google-feeds-api/ http://www.dotcodedump.com/2009/02/creating-a-simple-twitter-ajax-widget-using-google-feeds-api/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:32:00 +0000 admin http://blog.lintnernet.com/?p=47 I was doing some research into making API calls to Twitter using JavaScript. The one problem I ran into was calling remote domains. One quick solution I found was to use the Google Feed API. Google provides a really easy and simple interface for accessing feeds via JavaScript.

A quick how to:

To start out you must import the api using your Google API key. 

<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=[Your Google API Key]"></script>

This is script was taking from the Google AJAX API Playground, I just added in the call for Twitter, the full script is below.

First the Google feed object is instantiated with the call to the Twitter API via RSS. 

var feed = new google.feeds.Feed("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ianlintner.rss");

The Google feed API is great way to access and work with remote feeds, and APIs using just JavaScript. This also an asynchronous call, so it should play well with other AJAX solutions.

The full listing, with my changes. 

<!--Copyright (c) 2008 Google Inc.

You are free to copy and use this sample.License can be found here: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/faq/#license-->

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/><title>Google AJAX Search API Sample</title><script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=[Google Key]"></script><script type="text/javascript">/**  How to load a feed via the Feeds API.*/

google.load("feeds", "1");

// Our callback function, for when a feed is loaded.function feedLoaded(result) {  if (!result.error) {    // Grab the container we will put the results into    var container = document.getElementById("content");    container.innerHTML = '';

    // Loop through the feeds, putting the titles onto the page.    // Check out the result object for a list of properties returned in each entry.    // http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/documentation/reference.html#JSON    for (var i = 0; i < result.feed.entries.length; i++) {      var entry = result.feed.entries[i];      var div = document.createElement("div");      div.appendChild(document.createTextNode(entry.title));      container.appendChild(div);    }  }}

function OnLoad() {  // Create a feed instance that will grab twitter  var feed = new google.feeds.Feed("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ianlintner.rss");

  // Calling load sends the request off.  It requires a callback function.  feed.load(feedLoaded);}

google.setOnLoadCallback(OnLoad);</script></head><body style="font-family: Arial;border: 0 none;"><div id="content">Loading...</div></body></html>
]]> http://www.dotcodedump.com/2009/02/creating-a-simple-twitter-ajax-widget-using-google-feeds-api/feed/ 1 Killer NAnt Scripting Template http://www.dotcodedump.com/2008/08/killer-nant-scripting-template/ http://www.dotcodedump.com/2008/08/killer-nant-scripting-template/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:02:00 +0000 admin http://blog.lintnernet.com/?p=32 I created a NAnt template for developing NAnt scripts. This template includes global variables, comments, different targets based on the deployment, job, action structure that I have talked about previously.

I have provided the entire text file listed below, and also a zip file with the template in a NAnt .build file for download.

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Template code:<project name="Killer.NAnt.Template" default="Deploy.Target" basedir="." ><!-- Ian Lintner --><!-- www.dotcodedump.com -->

  <!-- GLOBALS SECTION -->  <property name="Global.Debug" value="false" />    <property name="Global.Project" value="[Project Name]" />  <property name="Global.Email.From" value="[Email Address]" />  <property name="Global.Email.To" value="[Email Address]" />  <property name="Global.Email.Server" value="[Email Server]" />

  <!-- DEPLOYMENT SECTION -->

  <target name="Deploy.Target" description="A generic deployment target" >      <echo message="**************************************************************" />      <echo message="* === Begin Deploy Target 1 ===" />      <echo message="**************************************************************" />      <echo message="* Time: ${datetime::now()}" />      <echo message="**************************************************************" />

      <!--Put Deploy Specific Varaibles Here-->

      <!-- Put Jobs Here -->      <call target="Job.One" />

      <echo message=""/>      <echo message=""/>      <echo message="**************************************************************" />      <echo message="* === End Deploy Target 1 ===" />      <echo message="**************************************************************" />      <echo message="* Time: ${datetime::now()}" />      <echo message="**************************************************************" />  </target>

  <!-- JOB SECTION -->

  <target name="Job.One" >      <echo message="**************************************************************" />      <echo message="* -== Begin Task One==-" />      <echo message="* Time: ${datetime::now()}" />      <echo message="**************************************************************" />

      <!--Put Job Specific Variables Here-->

      <!-- Put Actions Here -->      <call target="Action.One" />      <call target="Action.Two" />

      <echo message=""/>      <echo message=""/>      <echo message="**************************************************************" />      <echo message="* -== End Task One==- " />      <echo message="* Time: ${datetime::now()}" />      <echo message="**************************************************************" />  </target>

  <!-- ACTION SECTION -->

  <target name="Action.One" >      <echo message="**************************************************************" />      <echo message="* Begin Action One: ${datetime::now()}" />      <echo message="**************************************************************" />

      <!-- put tasks here -->      <echo message="   *** Task One ***"/>

      <echo message="**************************************************************" />      <echo message="* End Action One: ${datetime::now()}" />      <echo message="**************************************************************" />

  </target>

  <target name="Action.Two" >      <echo message="**************************************************************" />      <echo message="* Begin Action Two: ${datetime::now()}" />      <echo message="**************************************************************" />

      <!-- put tasks here -->      <echo message="   *** Task Two ***"/>

      <echo message="**************************************************************" />      <echo message="* End Action Two: ${datetime::now()}" />      <echo message="**************************************************************" />  </target>

</project>

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