{"id":66,"date":"2009-07-21T22:21:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T04:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2015-10-11T22:30:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T04:30:57","slug":"my-time-with-yahoo-widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/my-time-with-yahoo-widgets\/","title":{"rendered":"My Time with Yahoo! Widgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a year, I was REALLY into making widgets. I&#8217;d would still be making them if they ever fixed the bugs I reported and got the performance of the widget engine better.<\/p>\n<p>My self-hosted homepage for my widgets was <a href=\"http:\/\/angrysock.com\/widget\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, while my approved widgets are hosted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/widgets.yahoo.com\/authors\/Chris+Chang\" target=\"_blank\">official site<\/a>. There is one secret widget I made that isn&#8217;t really hosted anywhere, and that&#8217;s my cockroach simulator. That was one of my favorite widgets. It hogged my CPU, but it was worth it to see a cockroach scurrying around my screen.\u00c2\u00a0 My most popular script was probably Doom mooD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/doom-mood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-651\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/doom-mood.jpg\" alt=\"doom mood\" width=\"640\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/doom-mood.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/doom-mood-300x30.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s been mentioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dsilverman\" target=\"_blank\">Dwight Silverman<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/techblog\/archives\/2005\/12\/your_widgets_ar.html\" target=\"_blank\">twice<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/techblog\/archives\/2006\/09\/raw_notes_on_wi.html\" target=\"_blank\">before<\/a>, and I still haven&#8217;t found anything that&#8217;s even close to the combined whimsy and functionality. When you add in the nostalgia factor, I don&#8217;t think anything can match up to it.<\/p>\n<p>From programming widgets, I learned about XML and javascript. I got into some of the heavy object orientated side of javascript, and even started making libraries for other widget makers. I also started making Photoshop scripts to help automate taking my Photoshop designs into the XML layouts for the Yahoo! Widget Engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a year, I was REALLY into making widgets. I&#8217;d would still be making them if they ever fixed the bugs I reported and got the performance of the widget engine better. My self-hosted homepage for my widgets was here, while my approved widgets are hosted on the official site. There is one secret widget&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/my-time-with-yahoo-widgets\/\" title=\"My Time with Yahoo! Widgets\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Time with Yahoo! Widgets<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,18],"class_list":["entry","author-showmewhatyougot","post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-js","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}