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Tarzan 1.0.1 Now Available!
• February 3, 2005 • Code, Projects, Technology • No comments
Tarzan 1.0.1 is now available. This is a relatively minor update where only three things were changed: I resolved some localization issues that primarily affected France, Germany, and Japan. If you’re currently localized as an english-speaking country, you probably won’t notice anything new. However, setting the character encoding for your Tarzan-enabled pages to UTF-8 is [...]
Tarzan 1.0 Is Now Available!
• January 31, 2005 • Code, Projects, Technology • No comments
Tarzan 1.0 is now available! There were only a couple of minor bug fixes since RC2, so existing installations shouldn’t be affected at all. I’ve also written a custom extension for displaying my own wishlist. If you’re interested in checking it out to build off of for your own wishlists (or whatever else it might [...]
Tarzan 1.0 RC2 Now Available!
• January 26, 2005 • Code, Projects, Technology • 2 comments
Tarzan 1.0 RC2 is now available for download. There are several new things in this version, including: Full support for all of Amazon’s locales (US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Japan), improved error handling, redesigned Tarzan info page, and a new demo page which combines the old sample.php and breakdown.php pages. All you UK’ers should [...]
Localizing Tarzan and AWS 4.0
• January 25, 2005 • Code, Projects, Technology • 1 comments
The inital response to Tarzan has been very good! I got a handful of comments and several messages through my contact form about it. Overwhelmingly, people want to see Tarzan localized for their country’s version of Amazon. Initially, I started digging around to start implementing support for the UK. After a while of digging, however, [...]
Introducing Tarzan
• January 23, 2005 • Code, Projects, Technology • 7 comments
My birthday is in November, and Christmas is in December, so the “holidays” go for about a month-and-a-half. Every year, I’d start getting these questions like “What do you want for your birthday? What do you want for Christmas?”. Of course, when you’re asked on the spot like that, you can never remember what it [...]
SimplePie 0.96 Now Available!
• January 14, 2005 • Code, Projects, Syndication, Technology • 2 comments
I quietly posted SimplePie 0.96 a few days ago, after having it in place in SimpleReader for about a week before that. So far, so good. For those of you currently using SimplePie, this new version makes more strides towards improving support for sucky feeds, tested support for PHP 5, and other bits of fine-tuning. [...]
Remove Spyware and Adware
• December 30, 2004 • Software, Technology • 5 comments
I’ve been very fortunate to have never been hit with spy/ad-ware. I’ve always been careful, and I’ve tried to teach my wife what actions are smart and which ones are not. Last night, however, I was looking for some information and ended up downloading a file from a shady website. After scanning the file and [...]
Using Del.icio.us Feeds With SimplePie
• December 13, 2004 • Projects, Syndication, Technology, Website • No comments
I know that a lot of people are using Magpie RSS to power their del.icio.us sidebar links, so I figured I’d throw out a code sample showing how you could use SimplePie for the same task. If you need to come to terms with why SimplePie might be a better choice of RSS parser, check [...]
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