Comments on: Entry for geekiest home page competition

By: henrah

henrah — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:31:04 +0000

I couldn’t resist.


function relocator(url) {

  return function() { window.location = url };

};
function setLocators(object, urlHash) {

  for (var key in urlHash)

    object[key] = relocator(urlHash[key]);

};
function Dion() {

  setLocators(this, {
    // My Blogs

    blog       : 'http://almaer.com/blog',

    ajaxian    : 'http://ajaxian.com',

    devphone   : 'http://devphone.com',

    googlecode : 'http://code.google.com',

    gears      : 'http://gearsapi.blogspot.com',
    // teh social

    twitter  : 'http://twitter.com/dalmaer',

    linkedin : 'http://linkedin.com/in/dalmaer',

    facebook : 'http://profile.to/dion',

    flickr   : 'http://flickr.com/dalmaer',
    // My Stuff

    resume   : 'http://almaer.com/dion/cv',

    mybook   : 'http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ajax',

    articles : 'http://almaer.com/dion/articles',

    tools    : 'http://almaer.com/dion/tools',

    email    : 'mailto:dion@almaer.com'
  });
  var that = this;
  // Private (password required)

  var emily = relocator(that.emily);

  var wedding = relocator(that.wedding);

  var inlaws = relocator(that.inlaws);

  var redbook = relocator(that.redbook);

  var oldphotos = relocator(that.oldphotos);

};

By: dion

dion — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:45:00 +0000

@glenn I should definitely implement that. I am going to let people create a new file too which will create a new tab and when they save the file it will email me the contents. And, then if I keep going I will create textmate online ;)

By: dion

dion — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:43:46 +0000

@Emmanuel I don’t know if *I* am multi-threaded ;)

By: Srikanth Ramu

Srikanth Ramu — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:09:31 +0000

Other options are:

SQL:
SELECT BLOG FROM www WHERE DOMAINNAME= “http://almaer.com/”

Gears API: However this works for http://almaer.com/ domain
var localServer = google.gears.factory.create(’beta.localserver’);
var store = localserver.openStore(’MyBlogs’);
var files=["http://almaer.com/blog/"]
var captureId=store.capture(files,callback)

Java:
class Dion
{
myBlogsList.add(”http://almaer.com/blog/”);
myBlogsList.add(”http://ajaxian.com/”);

techSocialList.add(”http://twitter.com/dalmaer”);
}

By: Glenn Vanderburg

Glenn Vanderburg — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:59:43 +0000

Nice! But the first thing I tried to do was close the Java tab, and that didn’t work. LAME! :-)

—Glenn

By: Dimitri Glazkov

Dimitri Glazkov — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:56:00 +0000

I think there’s something wrong with your copy of TextMate: the JavaScript language at the bottom doesn’t change when you go to other languages! ;P

By: Kelzer

Kelzer — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:40:57 +0000

@Emmanuel: each thread simply represents a parallel universe. :-)

The Javascript version would be much geekier if instead of a simple static link you
captured the onclick event and then dynamically read in the displayed Javascript code (stripping the HTML) and then performed an eval on it to change window.location.

After those brilliant insights, can I have a job at Google now?

By: Paul Brown

Paul Brown — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:15:38 +0000

Nice; here's a version that uses bash.

By: FileMaker Freeware

FileMaker Freeware — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:47:30 +0000

Haha that’s really cool! Very original!

By: Emmanuel Pirsch

Emmanuel Pirsch — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:07:39 +0000

Nice,

But your Java version can create multiple Dion if getInstance() is called from multiple threads ;-)