A little more dabbling ...

Had a few moments spare, so I've been playing around with a few ideas.

I decided to add Technorati entries and tags into my "mood" page. This was simplicity itself.

There is no error handling at the moment - so if it bombs, it bombs. It's a bit slow because I'm pulling data from other services, combining on the server and then serving.

All that was needed was a few bits of JavaScript like :-

function processTechnoTags( tagList ) {
  var subset = {};
  subset.blogs = new Array();
  subset.count = tagList.document.result.postsmatched;

  for ( let aBlogId in tagList.document.item )
    subset.blogs.push({
      title:tagList.document.item[aBlogId].title,
      link:tagList.document.item[aBlogId].permalink});
  return subset;
}

and suddenly, hey presto I've got entries from Technorati as well as Flickr combined together. Again this is from someone who doesn't know JavaScript in detail!

Ok, it's all server side at the moment, no AJAX stuff yet but I like this language ... lots, it couldn't be simpler.

This isn't even going into the persistance side of things, which for an old DBA like myself is child's play.