Using Orbited with Django

February 25, 2010

This article got lost when I set up my new blog and several people have e-mailed me to complain. Here it is restored.

Using Orbited with Django ✜

Craigfetch: A teaser in screenshots

December 20, 2009

The Craigslist experience on the iPhone sucks. The website is poorly formatted for mobile safari, and the apps are just garbage. (That's right Craigsphone, I'm talking about you.) So I got to thinking, maybe the iPhone doesn't need a new Craigslist app — it already has a rock solid app built-in that can handle messages arranged in hierarchical folders. It's called the Mail app.

 

Then the more I got to thinking about it, the more it just made sense. Respond to a posting via email by simply hitting "reply." Respond via phone by tapping the auto-linked phone number. See where it is by clicking the auto-linked address.

 

Searching, check. Photos, check. The smallish Craigslist photos actually fit the iPhone's screen perfectly.

 

This is just a teaser, I'll have a full project page for this up soon. And, if you want to try it out yourself (as simple as setting up a new IMAP account at craigfetch.com) let me know and I'll give you demo account credentials. ✜

Amazon.com denim zoom feature

November 19, 2009

My team at Amazon.com just launched a bundle of new features for Clothing/Apparel shopping. One of them is a kick-ass zoom experience for denim. Load up certain pairs of jeans, such as these 7 For All Mankind women's jeans, and roll over the image. Bam! Super high-res detail overlays the page. Pan by simply moving the cursor around. Roll over an alternate angle and that view becomes zoomable.

Here's a screenshot with the zoom showing:

All the jeans in the new Amazon Denim Shop have this zoom feature, and one not-yet-discoverable "easter egg" feature is, if you click the main image you get full-window zoom that takes over your whole browser. ✜