Hit with that late night productivity bug again
Short and sweet: book collection manager (for now), read on for more
So I was watching movies/shows with Bob and Bruce (specifically Afro Samurai and Willy Wonka (the original, not the shitty new one))(and we were going to start watching season 1 of Airwolf, but Bob had to do work) and I started thinking about a project idea I had hashed around for a while. Ideas being what they are, nothing but ideas, I started hacking it out. Right now it isn't much, just a list of my books. But it gets all the data from Amazon using their fancy REST (I think I'm going to convert to SOAP) stuff, and gets all the information. I want to add a thinger so you can say where your books are (home, school, work, loaned to: foo), maybe if you've read it already and a rating or a wish list feature. I also want to do tags (ala del.icio.us or LJ), and then add all the same features for DVD's (ala DVDProfiler). I also wanted to an excuse to do some more coding considering I don't have to do any for any of my courses this quarter (or last really). So far it uses Perl, Javascript (much thanks to
jeresig for the awesometastic jQuery library that handles the table sorting and line shading), XML+XPath, and I will be making a db backend so other people can store their stuff in there. So without further ado.
My Book Manager v1.0
So I was watching movies/shows with Bob and Bruce (specifically Afro Samurai and Willy Wonka (the original, not the shitty new one))(and we were going to start watching season 1 of Airwolf, but Bob had to do work) and I started thinking about a project idea I had hashed around for a while. Ideas being what they are, nothing but ideas, I started hacking it out. Right now it isn't much, just a list of my books. But it gets all the data from Amazon using their fancy REST (I think I'm going to convert to SOAP) stuff, and gets all the information. I want to add a thinger so you can say where your books are (home, school, work, loaned to: foo), maybe if you've read it already and a rating or a wish list feature. I also want to do tags (ala del.icio.us or LJ), and then add all the same features for DVD's (ala DVDProfiler). I also wanted to an excuse to do some more coding considering I don't have to do any for any of my courses this quarter (or last really). So far it uses Perl, Javascript (much thanks to
jeresig for the awesometastic jQuery library that handles the table sorting and line shading), XML+XPath, and I will be making a db backend so other people can store their stuff in there. So without further ado.
My Book Manager v1.0