When I first built this site a couple of days ago, I used some freely available flash widgets to get it up and running quickly. These widgets embedded information from a variety of sources, including Twitter, Flickr, Last.fm, and Scribd. After today’s work, most of that Flash content has been removed. This serves a couple of purposes. First, it removes the need of a proprietary plugin to view the site, secondly, it makes the site more mobile-friendly as most phones don’t support Flash, and third it should speed things up a bit as Flash can be something of a resource hog from time to time. Because these features are now implemented in Javascript and CSS, they’ll also integrate better with the look and feel of the site.

My new Twitter widget was made using twitterjs (Google Code Link) and the Flickr photos below it were done by tweaking the code in Flickr’s own embedding tool. The Javascript slideshow that replaced the Flash one in an earlier post was creates with Flickrshow.

There are just two things I need to port over. First, the Last.fm charts: I could just use their image charts, but I want something a little more functional than that. Second, the embedded document system that I use to host my résumé (Scribd). This is a little tougher, as I’m having trouble figuring what to do aside from just posting the link to the PDF, which I want to avoid, as I’d rather have the content be embedded in the site and not require a download.

Both of those are projects for tomorrow, however. I need to actually get some sleep tonight as I start back at VMware in the morning.