[ANN] Movie Finder Demo Posted

[Devin Asay]

On Jan 30, 2008, at 3:48 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Hello List:
>
> Some months ago, I was inspired by all the mashup/API stuff  
> happening on the
> Web and came across a Google-powered RSS feed for movie listings  
> (built by
> isnoop.net).  It occurred to me that this type of thing could be
> incorporated into a Rev app and I wound up putting together a  
> widget/gadget
> of sorts that illustrates its use.  You enter your ZIP code, hit  
> enter, and
> the stack finds theaters in the area, from which you can view  
> current movies
> and showtimes.
>
> There is also Google Map link that links you to browser directions  
> for the
> currently selected theater -- done by a less elegant scraping of  
> Google
> HTML, but it seems to work (this is a bit of a cop out -- ideally this
> feature should be incorporated using revBrowser, but that's a  
> project I'll
> save for version 2...).
>
> I think it would be great to see more of this kind of thing done in  
> the Rev
> community to demonstrate the possibilities of Rev apps that use  
> current
> technologies.
>
> Anyway, I thought folks might find this fun and/or useful.  The  
> stack was
> built in Rev 2.8.1 and tested on OS X, Vista and XP (apologies to
> international listmembers, the stack is set up to work only with US  
> ZIP
> codes).  All of the key code is in the card script.
>
> To view the stack, execute the following in your message box:
>
>    go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/moviefinder.rev"

Thanks for another nice stack, Scott. I'm going to use this one on my  
students to help them understand how they can access internet  
resources in Rev in a much more seamless way than with a web browser.  
It's a difficult cognitive leap to get people to start thinking  
"outside the [desktop] box".

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University