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The Battle of Dunstan vs. Andrei vs. Mark
• August 29, 2004 • Code, Projects, Syndication, Technology • 1 comments
…well, their syndication feeds anyways. Here’s the problem: While working on SimplePie initially, I used copies of Dunstan’s Atom and RSS feeds because I felt that they’d be representative of most people’s decently well-formed feeds. I know that some people have worse feeds, and that Mark Pilgrim’s feeds are a bit too “academically” correct. Dunstan [...]
Newer. Better. Simpler.
• August 28, 2004 • Code, Projects, Syndication, Technology • No comments
SimplePie 0.91 is now available. This release adds support for URL’s with a relative path, better handling of some improperly written feeds, and fixes a problem where feeds weren’t getting loaded all the way before trying to parse them, causing SimplePie to choke.
The Ultrafast SimplePie 0.9 Is Now Available!
• August 3, 2004 • Code, Projects, Syndication, Technology • 3 comments
Responses to the release of SimplePie 0.8 have been very positive. SimplePie has accomplished it’s goal of making it easier to create online feed readers, or anything else that requires RSS parsing. The only complaints that I got were mostly speed-related. Most people who sent me feedback thought that SimplePie was just too darn slow. [...]
SimplePie… Yummy!
• July 20, 2004 • Code, Projects, Syndication, Technology • 5 comments
Have you ever wanted to create your own online RSS/Atom feed reader? Did you fiddle around with other solutions that just plain sucked? Did you try to use the awesome Magpie RSS, and just couldn’t get it to work like you wanted? Personally, I’m still fairly new to PHP, but I have a solid understanding [...]
Lots of Little Things
• July 7, 2004 • Browsers, Code, Website • 1 comments
I’ve got two posts on my laptop that I simply haven’t had the time to post. I’ll try to get to it this evening. Meanwhile, I recently found out that my cookie script has been recommended on IBM’s forums, my Java detection script has been talked about on Sun’s Java forums, my Message Center 5.5 [...]
Re-learning Macs
• June 12, 2004 • Apple, Code • 1 comments
Well, I’m getting better at this Mac OS X thing. I’ve been fiddling with it all for far too long today — trying to get some essentials installed — and I’m getting better. There are some things, however, that are irritating me although it’s not really Apple’s fault. The first would definitely be the lack [...]
Whitespace Is Improving
• May 7, 2004 • Code, Website • 1 comments
I’ve been reading Paul Scriven’s Whitespace for quite some time now. I’ve always enjoyed the content, but while the interface as always been usable, it hasn’t always been terrific. Nowadays, Whitespace is looking much better these days. I think that Paul has gotten much better at displaying lots of information in a usable — yet [...]
Using Safari? Lucky You.
• April 30, 2004 • Browsers, Code, Website • 3 comments
I’ve spent the day scouring the web for information on whether or not any build of Mozilla has support for the CSS2 text-shadow property. It doesn’t, which sucks. Why does it suck? Because I’m not able to see what Safari 1.1+ users are able to see: drop shadows on text without graphics. Now, I know [...]
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