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CHIRP Radio Real Time Playlist Widget
I started listening to the Chicago Independent Radio Project(CHIRP) last week and was immediately hooked. Most of my music comes from listening to The Current in Minnesota and KEXP in Seattle, so I was psyched when I learned that there was a similar music station going on here in Chicago. There is a good playlist on the CHIRP Radio site, however I wanted to have something that would auto refresh on my desktop instead of having to keep a browser window open all the time. So my friends, I created a Yahoo! Widget that updates every sixty seconds and displays the current song playing on CHIRP Radio.
In order to use this widget you must have Yahoo! Widgets installed on your system. Which you can download here. Once you have Yahoo! Widgets installed just download the CHIRP Radio Realtime Playlist Yahoo! Widget – version .1 and open it using Yahoo! Widgets. Simple as that.
Now please keep in mind that this is the first version and I will be updating the look/feel/functionality as the days go on. I just wanted to get this up and out there as soon as possible. Drop me a line if you find any bugs or have any comments.
SharePoint Vanity URL Rewriting
During the day I am a software engineer and from time to time I tend to come up with some cool solutions that I think other developers would be interested in. So going forward I will be posting some code that I have built and want to share with all you other nerds out there. Here goes!
Looking around the internet I’ve seen that many people have been trying to implement URL rewriting in a MOSS environment. Ive implemented url redirecting with MOSS using the HTTP module route for a while now and I’ve documented the code I used and what parameters worked the best for me here;
Take a look and let me know if this helps you and if you have any questions. Make the jump to see the code and enjoy.