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“Wait, Didn’t He Just…?”
• September 2, 2004 • Code, Projects, Syndication, Technology • No comments
SimplePie 0.93 is now available. This release adds support for RSS and Atom auto-discovery, converting relative-to-the-root URL’s into absolute URL’s (like web browsers do), an improved caching process, and a variety of fixes to aid compatibility with poorly written feeds. SimplePie takes a very Apple-esque approach to feed parsing. Coming from the use of MagpieRSS, [...]
I Need Your Help!
• August 31, 2004 • Code, Projects, Syndication, Technology • 8 comments
I’ve been on a roll with SimplePie development lately (if you couldn’t already tell). Version 0.93 will probably be released in the next day or so, and at that point should be feature-complete. The remaining Pre-1.0 releases (0.94, 0.95, 0.96, etc.) will be dedicated to compatibility fixes. There are a lot of poorly coded feeds [...]
Newer-er. Better-er. Simpler-er.
• August 29, 2004 • Code, Projects, Syndication, Technology • No comments
In record time, SimplePie 0.92 is now available. This release adds all sorts of things such as better (and faster) caching, a user agent string, smarter handling of problematic characters and entities, and a fix for Mr. Dunstan’s feed. For those who are skeptical of “yet another feed parser”, or are hesitant to switch to [...]
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 [...]
Blocker and Comment Spam
• April 5, 2004 • Projects • 1 comments
Something has just occurred to me: I haven’t had hardly any comment spam for a few months now. Did the spammers forget about me? I doubt it. Does Blocker have another side-effect that I hadn’t realized earlier? I’d appreciate any feedback from other Blocker users on this. Have you guys noticed a sharp decline in [...]
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