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Creating QR Codes with Google Charts API

As simple as a URL: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=250×250&chl=http://dev.enekoalonso.com

Tech talks at LEVEL Studios

Today we have a Tech Meeting at LEVEL Studios and I’ll be doing a quick demo of some tools we have been using in our current project, to help during our development: Using Closure Compiler to detect Javascript syntax errors and remove warnings. Using QUnit to test a REST api The power of WebSockets and [...]

Having fun with Mooml & Twitter

Mooml is a templating engine for Mootools. With it, you can create HTML from Javascript using a very clean syntax. Plus, it is extremely useful when you have to generate repeating elements, since Mooml automatically renders arrays of data multiple times. Let’s see an example. Searching Twitter Nowadays there are a lot of APIs out [...]

Things to do

To do list: Try Appcelerator (downloaded.. don’t like it very much, have to spend more time with it) Install iPhone SDK 3.2 (downloading installing…) Study LinkedIn API Study Twitter API Take a look at YQL Play with Google Closure JS library Play with Dojo JS library That’s it for now. Let’s see if I can [...]

iPhone 3.0 geolocation with Javascript

I was watching one of the video tutorials from Apple last night about some custom JS available on Safari, only on the iPhone 3.0, that let’s you interact with the phone and obtain data like the current location, etc. So I built a little page to see how it works. I included Mootools 1.2.3 from [...]

Kyte’s REST API

During the last weeks at work I’ve been working on a very cool Mootools based Javascript API to interact with Kyte’s REST API. So far it’s been working very good and I’m very impressed about how fast Kyte’s API is. Unfortunately, until the project I’m working on is launched I won’t be able to show [...]

WordPress Comment API & WPNotifier

I didn’t know WordPress had an API (I just decided to start using WordPress a few weeks ago). Apparently now is event better, since the 2.7 API has support for comments too. Well, I promise I’ll play with it as soon as I have some time. Others are already having fun with it and applications [...]

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This is a blog about development, focused mainly on Javascript but also other languages like python, shell scripts and more.

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Eneko Alonso is a software engineer and UI developer with more than eight years of experience in software and web development. He lives in San Luis Obispo, California and works at LEVEL Studios.

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