This is an unofficial, third party RESTful API developed and maintained by me for retrieving metal bands data (band and artist bios, discographies, line-ups, etc) from Encyclopaedia Metallum. Responses from the method calls are in JSONP format and the service is free, however providing an API key along with the requests is required. To use … Continue reading “RESTful API for Encyclopaedia Metallum”
Happy New Year everyone! I wish to you and your families all the best during the new 2015 and thanks for reading my blog! For me, 2015 started with a new website. I just released my new Avid Eleven Rack Presets and Rigs sharing and community platform – a project that I worked on during … Continue reading “Avid Eleven Rack Presets and Rigs Sharing Platform”
Sometime ago I used Last.Fm’s REST API to show some of my favorite albums on my website. The current implementation is using JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, PHP and client-side rendering and I’m pretty happy with it. However, I’ve always fancied a simple reusable HTML tag, which would be able to render my favorite music albums’ cover … Continue reading “Custom HTML5 Tag to Show Your Favorite Music Albums on Your Website or Blog”
Continuing the experiments with HTML5 Web Components I started a few weeks ago, I am happy to present my latest endeavor – HTML5 Web Component, which can be used to embed YouTube videos as a custom tags: [sourcecode language=”xml”] <acidjs-youtube videoid="wvHsX2lSW64"></acidjs-youtube> [/sourcecode] The component utilizes YouTube’s embedding API, and all of the parameters are supported … Continue reading “HTML5 Web Component for Embedding YouTube Videos”
Continuing my explorations in the amazing field of HTML5 Web Components, which I started last week, I am happy to present my new endeavor: AcidJs-X-AJAX is a lightweight custom tag, capable of making asynchronous server calls with (almost) no coding client-side. Again, it is built on top of Mozilla’s X-Tags library, and looks like that: … Continue reading “New HTML5 Web Component – AcidJs-X-AJAX”
The new and shiny version 3.0 of AcidJs.Ribbon (formerly known as Ribbonbar.UI) is out! AcidJs.Ribbon is arguably among the best recreations of the desktop ribbon bar with JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5. It is skinnable, fully AJAX driven component that is ready to use on any website, WYSIWYG editors or JavaScript-heavy apps. What you can you … Continue reading “AcidJs.Ribbon 3.0 is Out”
Crossbrowser image reflections enabler JavaScript class. JavaScript Mapper Class for RESTFul Methods – Recently I had to work with a bunch of RESTFul API methods, so instead of defining manually separate calls/methods for each API request, I decided to do it viceversa – to force JavaScript to create these methods automatically for me out of the … Continue reading “Useful JavaScript Classes and Functions”
Recently I had to work with a bunch of RESTFul API methods, so instead of defining manually separate calls/methods for each API request, I decided to do it viceversa – to force JavaScript to create these methods automatically for me out of the RESTFul API by providing the URLS and other required data. In short – … Continue reading “JavaScript Mapper for RESTFul Methods”
AcidJs.XmlToJson() JavaScript class is a simple XML to JSON converter and objectifier. It can be used with custom or public XML, REST APIs such as Last.FM, RSS and ATOM feeds, sitemaps, etc by converting the XML server responses to native JSON objects in the browser which are then instantly accessible by its simple to use … Continue reading “XML to JSON JavaScript Objectifier”
RESTBuilder is a free web-based JavaScript client for building, debugging and testing RESTFul services. It can be inserted to any web-site during it’s development process and make the REST requests testing fun and easier, providing nice interface, a lot of customization options, error handling and support both for same- and cross-domain requests to custom and … Continue reading “Free RESTFul Services Builder, Debugger and Tester”