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May 21, 2015

JS Scripting ETSY RSS Feed

While working on a one page web app for a retailer, I was challenged to both populate the retailers stock from a standard SQL database, but also integrate items from a store RSS feed on ETSY. The approach I took was to AJAX call the contents with the jQuery open source plugin zRSS feed, and…

May 18, 2015

JS scripting and the YouTube API

As is always the case, great APIs like YouTube’s, Twitter’s, Facebook’s, etc. undergo periodic changes that make previous methods obsolete. In anticipation of the depreciation of the object YouTube embed method, I reviewed out client installs and began working of the script to roll out the update. Most client sites influenced by this use jQuery,…