This year just keeps on throwing up surprises…

So I started a new job, got back into a rhythm of keeping up to date with the web world and actually did some development on my new site!

I spent some late night time looking into the use of, and integrating, the del.ico.ious api into a site on my local dev machine. Originally I was going to go with making json calls but opted for the api as it provided more detail on the post information returned. Which is kind of odd really, for example, by requesting json you don’t receive the date of the post but you do if you request using the api? (at least from what I saw during the brief time I spent looking). Also, by using the api I get some lovely neat XML that I can transform straight onto my page!

So anyway, it turns out its all rather straight forward to pull out posts from your delicious account and do pretty much whatever you like with them. My initial thoughts were to simply pull them out and list them so my personal site acts as an aggregator of my various other online accounts. With a tiny amount of C# I was able to achieve this in a very short time and once I can get my local site hosted somewhere I’ll put together a brief article on how I did this (with code examples). Not that anyone will be interested.. but hey.. it’ll be fun to write!

Additionally:

I finally took the time to fix the includes problem on my wordpress blog (mentioned some time ago) so now the sidebar returns!