Btw. if you can see this content, you have JavaScript turned on (or discovered the miraculous technology called RSS). If not, you might not be interested in what I write anyways.

photo credit: phauly

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Und die Erstellung war viel einfacher als erwartet. Habe es gestern den ganzen Tag getestet, und es funktioniert problemlos. Das Skript stellt jede volle Stunde ALLE Eure pausierten Artikel wieder ein, also aufpassen, dass ihr das auch wollt. Effektiv ist das so, als wenn ihr das selbst per Knopfdruck machen würdet.

Ihr müsste dazu Greasemonkey installiert haben und dieses Skript installieren. Dann einfach einen Tab oder Browser geöffnet lassen und bei Hitflip einloggen und auf die Bibliothek gehen. Das Skript wird jede Stunde alle Artikel wieder einstellen. Die Last für die Server von Hitflip ist dabei sehr gering, es ist genau eine Anfrage pro Stunde.

Hitflip AGB: Ich habe die Hitflip AGB durchgesehen, und es gibt nichts, was das verbietet. Genaugenommen ist das auch nichts weiter als Browserautomatisierung. Ich könnte genausogut jede Stunde selber klicken. Das wären dann genaugenommen sogar mehr Requests …

Warum ich plötzlich so vorsichtig argumentiere? Weil ich die Skripting-Pläne in deren Forum kundgetan habe und prompt rausgeworfen wurde. Das ist zwar totale Willkür, aber eigentlich mag ich Hitlip ja. Da ich aber auch gerne wieder “viel zu teure” Artikel ertauschen würde (wobei Hitlip ja jedes Mal 2€ mitverdient), hoffe ich, dass auch andere so wieder ihre Artikel “legal” einstellen können. Und vor allem auch jene, die eigentlich ganz friedliche “fairtauscher” sind, die trotzdem ihre Artikel nicht mal für den gleichen Preis vertauschen dürfen, zu dem sie ihn ertauscht haben.

Liebes Hitflip-Team

Falls ihr das hier lest, die Lösung eurer Probleme liegt in maximal zwei Arbeitsmonaten eines PHP-Programmierers und ist in diesem Artikel beschrieben. Wenn ihr das doof findet, sagt doch einfach Bescheid oder ändert eure AGB aber werft mich bitte nicht gleich wieder ohne Angabe von Gründen raus.

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Well some statements to Tante’s post:

• People don’t earn money by blogging anyways. There are more people getting rich by winning a lottery than people who can make a living with blogging. Therefore, blogging doesn’t earn you much money with Flattr too, but maybe enough so that you can give that away to Flattr other people.
• This way, the money pools at the guys that are already “big”. This really sucks.
• Tante also summed up, that there should be a way to Flattr people who don’t use Flattr. This is not possible technically of course as they couldn’t determine who gets the money and as there would be transmission taxes if the money doesn’t get transferred into their own system but outwards. But there should be a way for people to register at Flattr and flattr random people by entering those people’s E-Mail or Twitter name and the website for which the flattery is made, so that Flattr can connect to the flattered person telling him that he was flattered and that he can open up an account to recieve this flattery.

Some more critizism:

• For this reason, it should and MUST be possible to register without putting in money using a Twitter name, an E-Mail and random “things” – so you could recieve flattery and pass it on.
• They do this “you must put money” now, as this way the whole thing can be financed, but I really hope they don’t force you when they come out of their beta.
• To combat the problem of the big money pools that the popurlar blogs would create if they used flattr, the value you give each month should be dependent on what you earn via flattr.
• Flattr is technically not the best there could be. Their plugin places iframes on my page, which slows loading times a lot.Please update your WordPress plugin with a JavaScript that calles a cross-domain JavaScript if the div or the (included!) image is clicked. This would speed up things a lot.

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First, the author (thats me) get to concentrate on the content more. We all know that content is king, but when you’re having all these neat JavaScript and jQuery scriplets flying around, and pictures and badges and links all over the place, its easy to get distracted from that principle. The author also must not fear now, that his post is too small or too undiscoverable to make an impact on his own site, as every post is really BIG now.

Second, with less clutter on the page, the reader can better concentrate on the content. Additionally, the load times are faster, as most JavaScript does something that needs additional HTTP-requests, and thats bad for loading times. Faster loading times means less annoyed readers too. Also the rest of your blogs links and scripts are seen more, as there’s less noise. As I use a related posts-plugin, this means more readers can discover the content they look for more easily.

Whats up next: Having new motivation, there’s a lot to write about. I’ll try to optimize my blog more by decluttering it even more (I’ll make a static page for my recommendations, e. g. blogs, podcasts, posts, software and so on) and I’ll list up my new plugins and tell you why they’re AWESOME. I’ll also have a second look at the plugins I got, and maybe choose some that make the site load faster. That said, I’ll also analyse how I can make the site load faster in general. And look upon how you can blog easier by using simple GTD principles. Stay tuned.

Update: I just included a new font and reduced the font-size for not too big fonts. What you you think? Will post soon about using the new @font-face css styles and the problems with it on different browsers and with CSS compressing plugins.

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Some Quotes:

“You can save a tremendous amount of time and effort by using the browser-independent framework that JQuery has spent untold man-hours testing, debugging, and proving in the field. While there’s nothing wrong with writing JavaScript, why not speed your development time by writing to the library instead? As I’ve always said, don’t reinvent the wheel, unless you plan on learning more about wheels.” – Jeff Atwood

“A JavaScript framework may not make you a better programmer, but it will make you more efficient. That alone should be reason enough to choose a JavaScript framework, or library if you prefer. Unless you decide to build your own, there are plenty of options available to developers. However, choosing the right framework can be tricky, and weeding through a mess of opinionated fanboys (myself included) is intimidating.” – Brian Reindel

Features-comparison:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_JavaScript_frameworks

(pretty much tells us that Dojo and jQuery rule)

Speed-comparison:

http://www.domassistant.com/slickspeed/

My test resulted in: jQuery fastest, Dojo was close … Protoype and Moo were pretty slow (used Firefox 3.5)

Research and advise:

http://www.dannydouglass.com/post/2008/04/Comparing-Popular-JavaScript-Frameworks.aspx

Conclusion

Think for yourself. I’d always recommend jQuery, as every single developer that has ever used it has fallen in love with it, and it just always ranks best – everywhere. You got all features, high speed, short syntax, small filesize, very good documentation, unnumerable amounts of plugins, tutorials – and a low learning curve. If you can’t trust EVERYONE ELSE, you’ve got to have good reasons to.

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