Erik A. Hanson's Weblog

I wrote an iPad app called Palbum. It’s a gallery of the photos your Facebook friends have shared with you. It’s very simple now, but I hope to add more fun features in the future. Check out the Palbum web site, or download it for free right now from the app store.

I started working on a matcher library for Cocoa/Objective-C called Expectacular. My main goals were to have a syntax that I prefer over OCHamcrest‘s syntax, and to have something that XCode’s code sense feature will understand so it can autocomplete my code. Here are some examples: [Expect int:[myArray count] toEqual:4]; [Expect object:user.name toEqual:@"Fred"]; [Expect array:validTokens [...]

Here’s a little Ruby client for storing data in Angular, a system for creating simple database-backed web apps extremely easily. #!/usr/bin/ruby require ‘rubygems’ require ‘httpclient’ require ‘json’ class Angular def initialize(username, password, library) @http = HTTPClient.new @library = library post(“/login”, :email => username, :password => password) end def libraries get(“/data”) end def store(database, document, data) [...]

I have a 2nd generation iPod Shuffle that I use with the super-awesome Arriva iPod headphones: I love these headphones because I can wear them at the gym without having to deal with wires. I actually bought the shuffle because of these headphones. At the gym, I like to start out by listening to a [...]

I created a site called JS Dev Tools (jsdevtools.com) to keep track of useful Javascript development tools and libraries. Check out the site, subscribe to the feed, and suggest your favorite tools and libraries.

For my wshlst.com project, I needed to show when each item or comment was created or edited. My initial implementation was to just show the time and date of the change, but people who aren’t in the same time zone as my server didn’t like the fact that it showed a different time zone. I [...]

I created a little wish list website called wshlst.com for my family to use. (Read more about it here.) I worked on it a little bit before Christmas last year, and a little bit again this year. It’s been a lot of fun to write, and one reason is that the entire UI is written [...]

wshlst.com is a wish list website I created for my family to use. It differs from other wish list sites in a few ways: it’s group-oriented, it allows people to add items to other peoples’ wish lists (secretly, if desired), and it allows people to discuss wish list items (again, secretly, if desired). The result [...]

I was playing with a very JavaScript-heavy web page and wanted my automated tests to use a real web browser. I tried running them inside Safari, but it’s a bit annoying to have my tests take control of my browser. Plus, there were caching issues. So I wrote a very simple web browser.