Archive for January, 2006

TRIGLAV

Posted in Games on January 31st, 2006

I found TRIGLAV today.

This is cool, a pure javascript game diablo style.

It takes a while to load the game (getting linked to from Digg would not have helped), and seems to be Microsoft Internet Explorer only.

1980’s games

Posted in Tech, Games on January 25th, 2006

I am not a big game player. But this is just cool ! Play games in your browser. Both use Java applets of some description. I don’t know how big the downloads are but on broadband it’s pretty snappy.

1980 games - Arcade stuff like 1942

Commode 64 Games - Nuff said.

Reflections 2005

Posted in Pseudo Psychology, Evolution on January 24th, 2006

Reflecting on 2005, I was wondering what I had done with the year. These things come to mind (In no particular order)

  • Bought a House
  • Wrote a Perl wiki - Evolution (Soon to be released)
  • Finished another year of my Masters Degree, One year to go !
  • Started learning another Programming Language (Ruby)
  • Rediscovered web applications through the Rails framework
  • Rediscovered Perl through trying to do Rails/Ruby things in Perl
  • Learnt the Tai Chi Sword form
  • Went to six weddings !

I am now wondering what this year holds …

Alibris Book Search Integration

Posted in Books on January 21st, 2006

Finally, I got a few hours to play around with the API docs that Alibris sent me. As mentioned earlier, I have created a beta book search engine. Slowly, it will grow to have all the features I use elsewhere, plus a few more. The integration started with the usual effort of signing up for an affiliate program. Then, if you want an API you have to email a request, but they were quick to respond (within 24 hours). A couple of hours later it’ s working and integrated.

Anyway .. When using the Beta Book Search, results for a specific item will now search for new and used prices at Alibris.

Next .. need to work on price ordering, results from amazon (not just the side link), and getting the API from AbeBooks.