Evan Sims

Evan is a 25 year old designer, programmer and college student from the cornfields of Illinois. Aside from being a freelance web developer, he is also an aspiring video game designer. Learn more.

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Exploring December, 2007

You are currently browsing the unholy depths of my blogging history, albeit a rather short one given that I didn't start keeping track of my posts until a few years ago. If you're looking for a summary of all my past posts, check the Archives page.

December 27th, 2007
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Announcing libGameFly

Tonight I’m releasing libGameFly, a PHP class for interacting with GameFly.com- the video game rental service. At the moment it’s very simple, just allowing you to expose your GameFly queue as a native PHP class and doing… well, whatever the hell you want with it. I imagine some pretty nifty WordPress widgets coming from this, much like we’ve seen in the area of Netflix widgets.

It’s sad that companies like GameFly still haven’t realized the usefulness of RSS and APIs; exposing this kind of data isn’t just useful for their users and developers, but it’s a vital tool for creating word of mouth on the web these days. The more eyes that see your product, the better off you are; no?

So, if you’re a PHP developer and want to play around with this, you can grab it from http://code.google.com/p/libgamefly/. Enjoy.

December 24th, 2007
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Happy Holidays

Howdy folks. Surprise; I’m not dead! No no, I’ve just been quite busy with work, projects, and the usual laundry list of life-related bits that lead to my vacationing from a blog every so many months. In any regard, I have a number of rather exciting things looming, the least of which is a live test of my new Wiki-inspired content management system for this site, which I hope to launch in January.

I finally got an Xbox 360 this Christmas, which I received early several weeks ago and have been playing the hell out of Halo 3 and Eternal Sonata. If you’d like to add me, my gamertag is Okaria.

Alright, I best head back to the family room and join in the present opening. A safe and merry Christmas to everyone!

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