Richard’s Corner

To put it simply, I love Netflix.  When I talk about Netflix with other people, I am often accused of being a company representative because I rarely have a bad thing to say about the service.  That being said, I do have one complaint.  I love the Instant Watch feature, but finding titles to watch is very cumbersome.  Browsing through by genre is easy enough, but searching by actor, director or title results in a list that combines DVD and Instant Watch titles.

To improve my own Netflix experience, I built a search engine that searches Instant Watch titles exclusively.  Keeping it updated is a bit of a pain, but it has made searching for Instant Watch titles a lot less painful.  Since it helped me so much, I decided to make it available for all to use.  Here’s the link:

http://netflix.softworksdevelopment.com

Let me know what you think.  If you find any inconsistencies, or you can think of any ways to improve the site, feel free to leave a comment.  Happy searching!

Have you ever wanted to see a graphical representation of how screwed we are as a nation?  Well, I wrote an application that does just that.  With a few mouse clicks, you can see for yourself how we ended up more than $10 trillion dollars in debt.

http://dev.softworksdevelopment.com/nationaldebt/

I downloaded the data from Treasury Direct, and wrote the application using Adobe Flex 2, MySQL and AMFPHP.