I am happy to announce to my loyal readers (um, zero, one?) that widgizit.com is officially up and running. I’ve submitted my first two widgets, Amazon List and Amazon Browser to Widgetbox for approval to display in their gallery. Please take a few minutes and play around with configuring the widgets if you get a [...]
Archive for May, 2007
up and running
Published May 25th, 2007 in amazon, browser, google gadgets, widget and widgetbox. 4 CommentsWidgizit.com is extremely close to launch. The site is painfully spartan for now. It really only does two things right now – lets users register and serves up widgets quickly. Getting the web site up and running was very rewarding from a learning perspective, but it took much more effort than I had originally planned [...]
Getting closer
Published May 9th, 2007 in amazon, linux, provider, ruby on rails, ubuntu and widget. 1 CommentI’ve made considerable progress since my last post. I have a first-cut working Ruby on Rails application built on a development box – an Ubuntu VM (on Windows). The first round of widgets (Amazon-based) are ready to go. Much of the build process for the widgets and the web site is automated. I’ve signed up [...]