Posts tagged “javascript”
Finding Nearby Points of Interest with the Google Places API
Demo @ http://www.gurchet-rai.net/places/ The Google Places API is a web service that returns yelp-like information (ratings, reviews, contact info) based on your location. Using the HTML5 geolocation API described in my last post, I’ll go over how I made a simple little app that lets you view details for places near you. Getting a [...]
Getting a Users Location using the HTML5 Geolocation API
Demo @ http://www.gurchet-rai.net/geo/ I spent some time today fiddling around with the HTML5 Geolocation API for an upcoming project I’m working on and I thought I’d share some stuff I learned. In this post, I’ll briefly go over the API and the variability in accuracy I experienced when testing on a few different devices/browsers. [...]
News Aggregator Updates – Getting Tweets Related to Article Content
App @ http://www.gurchet-rai.net/news Just a small update today – the news aggregator I built a few weeks ago can now retrieve tweets related to each news cluster (just click the small bird ). All I’m doing is taking the three most important words in each cluster (generated via tf-idf weighting) to build a search query [...]
A 16-Step Sequencer in Javascript
You can find the sequencer here. I was bored today so I built a 16-step sequencer in javascript which uses sounds from 5 different instruments that I ripped from Reason. I was planning on using the HTML5 tag for audio playback but codec support is inconsistent across browsers – Chrome, Firefox, and Opera support Ogg [...]