Software As She’s Developed

Mahemoff’s Podcast/Blog – Web, Programming, Usability from the Author of ‘Ajax Design Patterns’ (AjaxPatterns.org)

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WebWait Two Point Oh

July 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments

I’m pleased to announce a major upgrade to WebWait, the first big upgrade since I launched the site 2.5 years ago. It’s based on watching how people are using it, talking about it, and sending me direct feedback about it. Thanks to all who have provided feedback. The new features are: Multiple sites You can [...]

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Instalicious: Push Delicious “ToRead” Items Into Instapaper

July 14th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Update: Moved intalicious to GitHub. The main change I made since posting this was to stop items reappearing in Instapaper once you’ve deleted them; the sync process was causing them to be pushed from Delicious again. The script now changes the “toread” tag to “instaliciousd” (configurable name), so “toread” items will only be pushed once. Instapaper [...]

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List Of Tweets

July 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments

ListOfTweets.com is a little twitter mashup I made to organise tweets. The tool lets you build up a list of tweets from search results, which you can convert to HTML or text. The list doesn’t empty unless you clear it, so you can keep running searches and adding to the list. You can easily rearrange [...]

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Scrumptious: Conversations About Websites (and other resources)

June 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Scrumptious is a web framework I’ve begun working on at Osmosoft. It’s a web app and web service for sharing bookmarks and comments about websites, and pretty much anything else with a unique URL. Things it is related to: Delicious (bookmarking), Digg (threaded comments), JS-Kit and Disqus (embedded comments with common identity across multiple sites). Scrumptious [...]

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A Contact Form

July 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I recently got fed up of spam. Well, that happened a long time ago. What bothered me recently, enough to take action, was false positives, i.e. real email that fell into my spam folder. My primary email address, michael@mahemoff.com, gets about 3000 mails a day…so what goes in my spam folder, stays in my spam [...]

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Music As She’s Developed

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

I made a little music mashup you might enjoy using. A Little Music As I was playing around with the new layout of this blog, I added a Last.FM widget to the sidebar. It looks like this: table.lfmWidgetradioeef448421daa7cdb759397e5f8ea67f8 td {margin:0 !important;padding:0 !important;border:0 !important;}table.lfmWidgetradioeef448421daa7cdb759397e5f8ea67f8 tr.lfmHead a:hover {background:url(http://cdn.last.fm/widgets/images/en/header/radio/minired.png) no-repeat 0 0 !important;}table.lfmWidgetradioeef448421daa7cdb759397e5f8ea67f8 tr.lfmEmbed object {float:left;}table.lfmWidgetradioeef448421daa7cdb759397e5f8ea67f8 tr.lfmFoot td.lfmConfig a:hover {background:url(http://cdn.last.fm/widgets/images/en/footer/red.png) no-repeat [...]

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