Andrew Chalkley the (Micro) Blog


Probably one of the most important videos of all time :)  Watch it if you dare!




This is awesome!

Wall-e is down to earth.



FEED ME NOW: Feature on Film4 winners

Includes insights into the winning mash-ups of Daniel HiltonThomas Butterworth and myself.

My tutorial in to making my mash-up more accessible coming soon!


Fix SQLite3 Error on Ruby Enterprise Edition

If you get the following error:

no such file to load — sqlite3/database 

When using upgrading to ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20080624

To fix it all your need to do is:

$ cd /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20080624/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.2/lib/sqlite3

$ sudo chmod +r *

Restart your app and voila!

If you have found this post useful please recommend me.


Download Music Chart - Pre-Alpha Release

I am pleased to announce that I have released Download Music Chart. Download Music Chart tracks the daily chart information of the UK music downloads on iTunes.

It’s currently in pre-alpha phase of development.

Click on a song title to get a graph of the weekly rankings for that song.

Chart information gets collected at 23:55 every day. 31st May was the first day where information was collected.

Expect to see alterations to the site on a very frequent basis. 




Stripe Generator

Another cool utility to add to your Web-2.0-tastic bow, an ajax diagonal stripes background designer.



Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us



AJAX Loading Gif Generator

I use this site to create awesome customised AJAX loading gif animations. Try it out :)


My Film4 Mash-up Entry: Runner up!

One day when reading a post on TechCrunch UK about Channel 4 launching a competition on creating a widget using at least one Film 4 feed and a feed from somewhere else; a mash-up.

I flexed my fingers, got out my jQuery hat and coded away. 

Today I found out that I was one of the two joint runners up in the competition. 

My entry can be found at film4.chalkley.org. Content is sourced live from Film4 RSS feeds (XML: Today’s Film4 ListingsCinema New Releases), Apple trailer XML feeds (XML: LargeHD 480pHD 720p) and dynamically generated Technorati Blog search queries (XML: Example Film4 Query).


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