Posts about django-friendly
django-oembed is awesome
Have I mentioned that django-oembed is awesome? oEmbed is a data exchange protocol that content providers (Flickr, YouTube, Digg, Revision3, Vimeo, et cetera) can supports that lets you programatically determine how best to display their content. oEmbed is an open standard that was spearheaded by Leah Culver of Pownce and she made a post on the subject when the project was announced. Imagine this scenario: You've got the URL to a YouTube video. You can link to that page easily enough, but what you really want to do is embed that video on your blog. How do you do that? ...
Posted on: 2008 July 18
Filed under: Django, Programming, Social Networking
django-friendly, django-oembed, leahculver, oembed, pownce, youtube
django-friendly: New template tags for FriendFeed data
Just a friendly (ho!) update on some of the things I've added to my FriendFeed Django application, django-friendly recently. I needed a way to pull out all the media from an entry. As I mentioned in my original post, getting at that stuff was a nasty mess of object attributes in your templates, so I set out to fix that. To that end I've created a few media-related tags. The first is get_friendfeed_media_list get_friendfeed_media_list This is very straightforward as it works just like comments and likes. You might use it in this manner (see second line): {% get_friendfeed_media_list for [friendfeed_id] ...
Posted on: 2008 July 17
Filed under: Programming, Social Networking
Site converted to django-friendly: FriendFeed integration
I posted about it on Twitter this afternoon, but I finally succumbed to the FriendFeed trend and I'm going to let them do the hard work of aggregating my life stream and normalizing it. Honestly, I don't need to fight the never-ending battle of scraping and parsing a billion feeds when a company flush with cash and smart people can do it for me, right? :) What's great is that they provide a fabulous API and so I took some time yesterday to build a Django application I call django-friendly that you can pop into your site to integrate everything ...
Posted on: 2008 July 14
Filed under: Django, Internet, Programming, Social Networking
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