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[Bitcoin Explorer]

Very nice tool , The design is very cool and the price convert very fast but i was asking my if its in real time ?
I can do the same job using php i would like to learn python if it is mroe fast than php .

He uses a python script to getvprices and ajax(jquery) for real time updatescvia json data

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[ADcoin.me]

Sweet domianname! Good luck.

[Cryptowatch.com]

Lots' of interesting stuff in this thread!

You may want to look into using websockets instead of ajax requests for getting live prices from various exchanges.  I'm not sure if PHP is well suited for the job.

I've developed cryptowatch.com, it's backend is in node.js and I'm also using socket.io to provide push updates to the clients.

Site: http://cryptowatch.com/

Currently I'm just updating prices about once every 5 minutes through a cron job which runs a c++ program that uses libcurl to fetch prices from various exchanges. The prices are then inserted to a mysql database, and the node.js server checks the database about every 10 seconds and if there's a change in the data, it's pushed to the connected clients over the active websocket.

I've changed the fetching model from a sequential one to a parallel one where I use threads to initiate all the fetching of data, which makes it quite faster to get all the price tickers from various exchanges.

The site is also responsive, so it should work great on all screen sizes.

Development was somewhat slow as this was much unfamiliar technology for me. And the site is still just at 0.1 alpha stage.

Thank you for the tip about meteor, I will look more into it.

Did anyone of you look into glyphicons? Ie. vector icons that resize as the window the site is displayed in resizes?

I see there's a link here to a btc glyph icon:
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/btc/

Also, lastly are you intending to monetize your sites? And if so, how?

I also liked the trick at http://ibit.io/ where the price is shown in the tab of the browser, quite neat trick.

I also found a jQuery plugin that was quite nice: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago

"Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago")"

If you look at http://bitcoinity.org/markets, you will see they have implemented such fuzzy timestamps there.

I also noticed that tickers are quite different between various exchanges, and in one instance (btc-e) they'd even managed to switch ask and bid-values in the ticker. There should really be a standard for how tickers was presented, which would make it easier for developers working with API's from various exchanges.

[Voltarius]

Looks good and very helpful from what I've seen so far.
Thank you.
One thing I could suggest is add an mBTC to BTC conversion calculator in the ibit.io site, instead of having to go to bitkoin.io to do it.
Either than that, looks really good!

[nambich]

Are you just using blockchain for your rates? I would minifiy your HTML and then use angular / jquery / ajax to fetch the prices.

[coinpr0n]

Are you just using blockchain for your rates? I would minifiy your HTML and then use angular / jquery / ajax to fetch the prices.

btc rates from blockchain.info
fiat rates from quandl.com

[Bitcoin Explorer]

Are you just using blockchain for your rates? I would minifiy your HTML and then use angular / jquery / ajax to fetch the prices.

jquery and ajax is ok, i do know them, but how do you use angularJS?

[coinpr0n]

Are you just using blockchain for your rates? I would minifiy your HTML and then use angular / jquery / ajax to fetch the prices.

jquery and ajax is ok, i do know them, but how do you use angularJS?

None of them are strictly necessary. It depends on the job. The thing about AngularJS and other frameworks like that (maybe Polymer too) is that they provide you already with all the common things web developers will need. Including AJAX calls and even styling. But I think these can be overkill for some small projects. The learning curve may be a little steep at first but once you get it I can see why people want to use it for everything they do - it really makes it easy.

[freemind1]

Very good work unchi, simple and very effective, uncomplicated and 100% configurable. You plan to update it with more configuration options? Thanks again unchi.

[Mikestang]

Very nice little app!  Please post up your donation address in this thread, I see it in the app buy my phone wallet is empty. 

[Mikestang]

Thanks, will send something when I get home.

[TheGr33k]

I really love the customizable colors and font size, the site is super clean nice work,

[btc_enigma]

Nice work dude ! Can we have price graph also

[Bitcoin Explorer]

Thanks!  This is something I may consider in the future, but my goal is to keep this website as simple as possible.  Maybe I can throw in a very simple graph eventually, along with 24 hr +/- change percentage.

I can help you with the code. I think I have some code for it suing some library, HMU if needed. You wont be able to use the chart commercially in that case.

[rammy2k2]

I would install this if u could make the Bitcoin price to appear in the upper line on the phone so i can see it non stop, clock on the right, bitcoin price on the left.
It has that advantage that i dont have to open the app everytime i need to see the price.

[coinpr0n]

I would install this if u could make the Bitcoin price to appear in the upper line on the phone so i can see it non stop, clock on the right, bitcoin price on the left.
It has that advantage that i dont have to open the app everytime i need to see the price.

This could probably be packaged up in an Web View or using something like PhoneGap. Not sure how reliable these have become as of lately though. Last I looked they still needed a little work. You are basically asking for a native app.

[cryptster]

I've been using this website for a few weeks now, and it's been the fastest way for me to check the price on my crappy old phone.  Kudos!

[ShamrockHannah]

You should make this available for website owners to use on their page, with a back link on it. If you are worried about low quality websites only give out the code to sites which receive your approval.

[Bitcoin Explorer]

I've been using this website for a few weeks now, and it's been the fastest way for me to check the price on my crappy old phone.  Kudos!

Thank you!  My goal was to keep this website as lightweight as possible.  It doesn't have the fancy bells and whistles that other sites have, but it does serve one purpose well: to provide the latest price in a clean, simple interface.

Are you interested in selling any of your websites(ibit.io or bitkoin.io)? I really like the features coupled with the minimalism that you have implemented. Does bitkoin.io have a custom stylesheet or is it templated css?

[Bitcoin Explorer]

I've been using this website for a few weeks now, and it's been the fastest way for me to check the price on my crappy old phone.  Kudos!

Thank you!  My goal was to keep this website as lightweight as possible.  It doesn't have the fancy bells and whistles that other sites have, but it does serve one purpose well: to provide the latest price in a clean, simple interface.

Are you interested in selling any of your websites(ibit.io or bitkoin.io)? I really like the features coupled with the minimalism that you have implemented. Does bitkoin.io have a custom stylesheet or is it templated css?

I have not considered selling, but for the right price I suppose I would.  Both sites are starting to gain traction from Google and I see a lot of potential in them, so I wouldn't be willing to let them go very easily.  Feel free to PM an offer.

Both sites use custom CSS.

If you can, kindly provide me analytics of both sites and the bare minimum price you'll accept for each site.