It's Ada Lovelace Day! It's the day where you should high-five your local lady coder and blog about why we always need more women in the workplace. And, yes, this blog is stuffed to the brim with commentaries on the sociology of tech, so it's really Ada-appreciation day every day for me.
Last year, I shared the magical Jurassic Park clip featuring a teenage girl and her love for Unix. But, in honor of Lady Ada (not Gaga for once!), this year, I actually coded something that everyone can enjoy.
What is this?
It's a listing of the 10 recent posts across the TypePad blogoverse containing the phrase "ada lovelace", using the TypePad Search API with a utility javascript file that I branched from another project called Tydget (TypePad + Widget). The cool thing about this widget is that you can change the search phrase in the api.typepad.com parameter call just in case you don't want to read about Ada Lovelace tomorrow. It's really quite easy to change it to "Lady Gaga", for example...
Grab this Widget
Spread the Ada love and throw this into the source of your blog post:
<style type="text/css">
/*
* Define some css styles here, or View Source of
* this page to borrow mine!
*/
</style>
<div id="ada"></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://nataliepo.typepad.com/ada/typepad_parsing.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://api.typepad.com/assets.js?q=ada%20lovelace&max-results=10&callback=ada_callback"></script>
Improve this Widget
It's checked into the ada-lovelace Github repository, so, do some Social Coding already and submit changes!
Happy Ada Lovelace Day! And special thanks to @liz, another of our fine Six Apart coders, for helping me with the design.
This is my favorite page on the Internet right now.
Posted by: Michael Sippey | March 24, 2010 at 05:06 PM
You're cool. I wanna be a coder!
Can you show me where to put this magnificent string?
Posted by: Claire Alcock | March 24, 2010 at 08:06 PM