Github Blog

 http://al3xandr3.github.com/ is a better platform for writing longer texts, minimalist design, focused on my original content and not to be updated frequently. Is hosted on github.com pages, using jekkyl site generator and git for version control.

Have now improved workflow: I write in (aqua)emacs using orgmode, do orgmode-export-project and git commit the changes that updates the site directly. Also have full control over the site html, so i can make it in whatever layout i feel like(even if is ugly :P ).

source code is here: http://github.com/al3xandr3/al3xandr3.github.com

Note: I'm still keeping the http://alexandrenotebook.blogspot.com/ for re-posting, re-linking, and other shorter content.

jQuery Twitter 'mini' plugin

Here's a little jQuery plugin for displaying a twitter feed into a web page. The goal was to put my latest 'tweets' on my blog, and also learn jQuery. Ended up making a 'mini' jQuery plugin that can easily be added into any web page.

Demo:

For the code:

$(function() {
  $('#tw').click(function() {
    $('#tw').twitter({'user':'al3xandr3','count':2});
  });
});

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The plugin is running on the sidebar of this blog under the 'ON TWITTER' title.

How It Works

It makes an Ajax request to twitter that returns json data of the feed. That data is then read and injected into the selected html element(s).

See in:

$.ajax({
  url: "http://twitter.com/status/user_timeline/" + settings.user + 
       ".json?count="+ (settings.count+1) +"&callback=?",
  dataType: 'json',
  success: function (data) {
  $.each(data, function (i, item) {
            
    //text
    $this.hide().append("<p id=" + item.id + ">" + 
                        replaceURLWithHTMLLinks(item.text) + 
                        "&nbsp&nbsp</p>").fadeIn('slow');
            
    //date
    if (typeof prettyDate(item.created_at) !== "undefined") {
      $("<br>").appendTo("#" + item.id); //line break
      $("<a>" + prettyDate(item.created_at) + "</a>").attr( {
        'href':   ('http://twitter.com/' + settings.user + 
                      '/status/' + item.id),
        'target': '_blank'
      }).css("font-size", "75%").appendTo("#" + item.id);
    }
  });}
});

jQuery is a very nice designed lib, simple and powerfull. Some say its just like a functional programming Monad.

Full source code is available in github: http://github.com/al3xandr3/jquery-twitter-plugin

I'm now a ...

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