「朱72」　shu72.com » programming http://shu72.com the personal website of Sonya C. Wheeler Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:02:39 +0000 en hourly 1 Redo of my currently reading script http://shu72.com/2006/10/11/redo-of-my-currently-reading-script/ http://shu72.com/2006/10/11/redo-of-my-currently-reading-script/#comments Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:39:49 +0000 Sonya http://shu72.com/2006/10/11/redo-of-my-currently-reading-script/ Thinking about fixing up my PHP scripting that I put together of my currently reading section. Either I can make a new table inside my main site’s database with a different prefix, so I can tell which table is for the books and which is for the site, or create a completely new database.

Sure there are other scripts and plugins that can do the basically the same thing but I’ve either found them to be lacking in some areas or extremely bloated content wise for my current needs.1 I’m not looking to show detailed information or reviews at the moment. For the time being, I’m just using a simple link provided by Amazon.com in my sidebar. This is a lot less information than my original code which was showing a progress bar with the percentage of the book that was read and links to other Amazon.com sites.2 Instead of just inputting the information of title, author, ISBN, pages using PHP and MySQL, I’m now experimenting with combining Amazon’s XML product feed along with it so I can pull the information with just entering the ISBN and updating the number of pages and where I left of in the book.3

I’ve also been thinking of creating a stand-alone or extension to Firefox so I can easily update my book status. I like the idea of making something for Firefox more because it gives me a reason to learn XUL. The downside, having to learn the workings of XML-RPC.

  1. Such as: Amazon Media Manager, CG-Amazon, WP-Amazon, and many others. Plus, I want to create something of my own that I can call my own. ↩
  2. Local sites for Canada, and United Kingdom, along with the standard US. I haven’t signed up for any other locales yet. ↩
  3. It could have been just by entering the ISBN and last page read, but neither of Amazon’s XML feeds lite or heavy contain a book’s total page count. ↩
]]> http://shu72.com/2006/10/11/redo-of-my-currently-reading-script/feed/ 0 Old school droid sound quest http://shu72.com/2003/01/15/old-school-droid-sound-quest/ http://shu72.com/2003/01/15/old-school-droid-sound-quest/#comments Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:48:50 +0000 Sonya http://shu72.com/2003/01/15/old-school-droid-sound-quest/ I’ve been looking for a program or something that is like an old PCjr BASIC program that I used in the past. The code that I had to type in made the computer make many of the sounds of Star Wars droid R2-D2. Too Cool! I miss it. I can’t recall if it was from an old issue of K-Power magazine or in an old programming book that I use to own. Might have been the book. It didn’t contain too many lines of code and was VERY cool. But this was unlike the programming code for the computer part in the old TV show from 1983-1984 “Whiz Kids” that appeared in K-Power once. Lame. Pure lame. It only typed out a few phrases like “Hello, Richie” once you run the program… no talking. Boy, have we come a long way from that.

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