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Latest Updates: OpenSource RSS

  • Zach Blank 5:57 pm on December 27, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Mashup, OpenSource, Package Mapping, , ,

    I am in a pretty good mood today. Everything seems to be working pretty well with PackMapr, and I finished developing the RSS feeds for the USPS, UPS and FedEx APIs. The link in the top right corner becomes active after you search for a package and the system figures out the carrier and the tracking number.

    PackMapr Screenshot

    In earlier posts I published sample tracking numbers. Use those and take a look.

    As I said earlier I am happy to share and discuss my code, just ask and I will give it away. This post about sharing code gave me the final confidence to happily give away my secrets. I bumped into it from Matt Mullenweg’s blog Photo Matt. Most of it I have heard before or thought about, but just reading it again reminded me of its importance and security. So go ahead and ask!

    As I have been developing this app I have ran into the others like it out there. Here is a list of what I have been looking at:

     

  • Zach Blank 6:31 pm on November 18, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , Life, OpenSource, , ,

    So months ago I posted that version 1.0 of this site was out and ready to go. Well that was nothing more than a flat lie. I haven’t done anything on the site but kick myself for not working on it for the last nearly 5 months.

    After really getting into school this term and taking classes where the Instructors really push ‘the real world’ I found the motivation to do my own work. The last five months I have been swamped working on projects like OSI Rock Stars, Defiant Gardens, Oasis Connect and DARTS Connect. Some of these projects have been more enjoyable than others and some are still going but overall having a full time freelance job on top of going to school full time ‘aint easy. It better pay off!

    Poke around the site, new things are going to be going up all the time. I have an arsenal of apps that I have been developing - AJAX and PHP, Wordpress plugins, some Google API stuff and a bit of Facebook of course. I think they are all pretty cool but you can let me know as I start releasing them. They will all be OpenSource and each hosted on their own, so hopefully you will find them useful.

    Check back - or don’t, I’ll be here either way.