I have been working hard to release the work that I have been doing to expose some of the more interesting real time data about chicago transit. Currently it is very bus-centric, but that is hopefully changing.
The genesis for this API is some work I did awhile ago reverse engineering the CTA Bus Tracker mashup. [...]

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I have recently been involved in talking to a local chicago entity about their unofficial API. It has been fun and deserves a blog entry of its own. However, this is not that blog entry – this blog entry is about mashups and the not so public APIs they often create.
In the past couple years [...]

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Man. Today was pretty awesome. Woke up. Juggled. Ate good food. And wrote some dope PHP stuff.
After reading a bunch about some peoples PHP Youtube API implementation, I decided that i was tired of looking at some other peoples crappy and over complicated code. So i whipped up something that is really easy, works and [...]

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So falbum, the awesome flickr photo gallery for wordpress, broke this afternoon around 4pm due to the API key for the plugin expiring. This is annoying and somewhat funny. It seems that as of right now – all falbum sites are broken. hah. Every single one. Doesn’t this seem to be a flaw in flickr’s [...]

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I am lost in regards to what to listen to. I need something new. Or old. i don’t know.
This is really amazing. For some reason people are taking “famous” videos and making them “stable.” It is quite interesting and makes watching the videos a bit more mysterious – cuz the video becomes much more [...]

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