Niall's Weblog

Recently I needed to implement my own autocomplete for a project on snagmachine.com. We had a large database of products and wanted to ease data entry by hinting to the user via autocomplete when possible. In future, we can probably just use Freebase Suggest but right now we needed our own solution. The Pieces Autocomplete [...]

I just finished my hack of JQuery In Place Editor to work with Freebase Suggest. I call it “JQuery Suggest In Place”. Its pretty much the same as JQuery Edit In Place, except it is stripped down a bit to only give you an input text field with a bound Freebase Suggest. You can pass [...]

Last month I started Py Web SF, the San Francisco Python & Web Technology meet-up. The idea is 1-2 conversation-style presentations of about 30 minutes with a group of 10-20 people. My hope is to have a more intimate group than the very good Bay Piggies (which I highly recommend). With a small group, it [...]

Freebase Suggest is a little JavaScript (and jQuery) widget for adding Freebase‘s auto-complete and search API reconciliation features to any of your text boxes. While this might sound a bit strange or pointless initially, its actually incredibly useful in many applications Imagine you are running a site for your own music reviews. You have a [...]