Tuesday, January 31, 2006
iTunes gizmo and now playing on my website
After much work I finally found and got a "now playing" image on my website for iTunes. This little tool posts the current song and relevant info to a small xml file on your computer and can ftp it to your server as well. Then the problem became how to get it on my website. I wasn't real familiar with php scripting, so I searched more and some more and some more and finally found a flash app to use. It took a while to get it configured right, but it basically takes the info from the xml file and grabs the album art from either amazon.com or iTunes and puts it on your website. It seems to be working well, except I'm not sure it's updating like it should. I have it set to update the song info every two minutes within the flash settings, but I have yet to see it update. It does update on page refresh though, so maybe that's a solution. I could just set the page to refresh every two minutes on it's own. Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Update: The flash app is updating like it is supposed to. Woohoo!
Update: The flash app is updating like it is supposed to. Woohoo!
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Finally got my webpage more or less completed. Had major hassles between me not having the file names correct and not having the server set up right. But after much frustration and some work over the weekend, I have a working webpage! It was a lot easier than I remember it actually.
It snowed here today, then melted. I can't believe the local ski hill I go to has over 100 inches now. They haven't had anywhere near that since I've lived here. So I'm going to have to get up there finally this year! I know I'm a big lazy turd. Was watching the winter xgames today and realized those guys are just insane. I don't think I'd survive one run down the hill the way they ride. Of course I'd just end up falling on the only ice spot on the entire hill and bruise my tailbone again. Dork.
No ground-breaking thoughts today. It's a lazy sunday. Adios
It snowed here today, then melted. I can't believe the local ski hill I go to has over 100 inches now. They haven't had anywhere near that since I've lived here. So I'm going to have to get up there finally this year! I know I'm a big lazy turd. Was watching the winter xgames today and realized those guys are just insane. I don't think I'd survive one run down the hill the way they ride. Of course I'd just end up falling on the only ice spot on the entire hill and bruise my tailbone again. Dork.
No ground-breaking thoughts today. It's a lazy sunday. Adios
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Day 1
Well I'm not entirely sure what to write here yet. This is the first blog I've done. Just wanted to get it up and running, so there will be more later as you could guess for yourself!!!!
