So I’ve been playing this game called BattleForge, and there are a handful of websites that exist just to display information about these cards you can collect in the game (think Magic: The Gathering or Pokemon). People have also made Adobe AIR applications and Microsoft Access databases. So, naturally I thought I would pollute the web with another website.
At first, I was going to use xml + xslt to make it. I actually got a proof of concept working nicely. But once I tried using javascript, it got weird on me because it was XML instead of HTML. Then I changed it to plain HTML + an XHR request to get the XML file and got basic realtime filters working. Then someone pointed out that there was some google docs with the information I wanted so I switched from XML to JSONP.
Anyways, this is the limit of my attention span so I’ll paste the URL now. http://allbfcards.com/
Not sure what it all means, but it seems pretty impressive to me. You should get a job doing things like this? Seems like you’d be pretty valuable to a lot of different types of businesses. But blah, who wants to work.