Food Truckus Ruckus

I want to thank everyone who came out to this event. I had a blast and sold out like, boom over. Next time I will prep heavy. And please if you come to my stand and you are a Hotbytes homie let me know! I love meating the faces behind the avatar. Cheers!

. I love meating the faces behind the avatar. Cheers!

Even vegetarians?

Yup, I got down there at 1:30 and we waited for about 45 minutes to place our order, then another 20 to get food from Lil' Cheezers. My BLT was pretty good, and they're curry ketchup for the fries was good as well. However, what stood out in my mind was the AWESOME Smores sandwich: nutella and marshmallows and maybe some more chocolate all melted together with some powdered sugar on top, it was EXCELLENT, well worth the wait.

And although not at the Truckus Ruckus, I caught Morels at the Nach Bar a few weeks back, I was fortunate enough to get a brat with ACTUAL MORELS on it, it was absolutely delicious! Thanks Stan! I'm excited to see a great idea thrive from starting on Kickstarter, gives me hope for LouBrew!

One of the big questions I (and a number of people I overheard) was wondering though is how do we catch these trucks around town regularly? I guess we can check their Facebook pages, but some central website, that they all contributed to would make things run a lot easier. Someone go and register louisvillefoodtrucks.com quick! (kidding, just checked, already registered...)

[Robin Garr]

One of the big questions I (and a number of people I overheard) was wondering though is how do we catch these trucks around town regularly?

I've set up a Twitter list that captures any tweets that go out from about six of them and assembles them into a single stream. (Note that it doesn't seem to work from mobile devices, and you have to be logged in to Twitter to read it, but it's still a work in progress. When I get it cleaned up, we'll link from the front HotBytes page, but you're welcome to click it now:

http://twitter.com/#!/list/LouHotBytes/ ... foodtrucks

. I love meating the faces behind the avatar. Cheers!

Even vegetarians?

Adam and I go way back.

Robin,

It's pretty easy to create a Twitter widget, if you'd like to incorporate it into your site, somewhere. I just quickly put one together that sort of matches the theme of hotbytes and includes tweets from LilCheezers, SDSWorks, MozzaPi, BustaGrill502, BBQCowboy, HolyMole, and Morels. Here's what it looks like:



The size, colors, and behavior are all easily configurable. Here's the code that you can paste somewhere on the site, if you want to play around with it:

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<script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
<script>
new TWTR.Widget({
  version: 2,
  type: 'search',
  search: 'from:LilCheezers OR from:sdsworks OR from:MozzaPi OR from:BustaGrill502 OR from:BBQCowboy OR from:HolyMoleTruck OR from:Morelsfoodtruck',
  interval: 6000,
  title: 'Louisville Food Trucks',
  subject: '',
  width: 600,
  height: 300,
  theme: {
    shell: {
      background: '#000000',
      color: '#ffffff'
    },
    tweets: {
      background: '#dbefff',
      color: '#000000',
      links: '#175699'
    }
  },
  features: {
    scrollbar: true,
    loop: true,
    live: true,
    hashtags: true,
    timestamp: true,
    avatars: true,
    toptweets: true,
    behavior: 'default'
  }
}).render().start();
</script>

^The actual widget scrolls updates, btw...that's just a screen shot.

[Robin Garr]

Kewl! Thanks! I'll turn it over to Mary and see if we can't just do a Food Truck Tweets page somewhere on the HotBytes site. I'll put it on the main site rather than the forum ...

Robin,

It's pretty easy to create a Twitter widget, if you'd like to incorporate it into your site, somewhere.

No problem. Feel free to let me know if you have questions.

[Robin Garr]

No problem. Feel free to let me know if you have questions.

Hmm, I tried loading it on a site page, but it won't show. I wonder if our WordPress system won't support javascript.

I've not messed with WordPress very much, as I'm more of an old school notepad kind of web developer. From doing a quick Google search on the issue, it looks like your two supported options are to either add the javascript to your template file or break the javascript out into a function in it's own separate .js file. If you go with the break out method, you can put the following in a post, as long as the rich editor is turned off:

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<script type="text/javascript" src="/javascriptFileName.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
CreateTwitterWidget();
//--></script>

^Where "javascriptFileName.js" is whatever the name of the file is that contains the function and CreateTwitterWidget is the name of the new function.

Here's the page that contains the above info:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Javascript

[Robin Garr]

Here's the page that contains the above info:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Javascript

Thanks, but dang! I don't want us to have to get into that ... it's not like we're trained programmers.

Will it work as-is if I just pop it into a flat html page?

Will it work as-is if I just pop it into a flat html page?

Yep, I created a quick test page when I was playing around with it. Just stick it between the body tags and you're all set.

[Robin Garr]

Will it work as-is if I just pop it into a flat html page?

Yep, I created a quick test page when I was playing around with it. Just stick it between the body tags and you're all set.

Kewl! We won't do it today, but I definitely want to do this. Thanks, Jeremy!

Once I followed the list from a real computer, I've been able to see it from the official Twitter iPhone app. Just hit the three-dot settings button on the bottom right, and the list(s) shows up in the middle of the page. Tap it and it brings up all the recent tweets.