Category Archives: coding

I've just been on my site for the first time in nearly a month (been busy dammit!) and spotted that 2 of the plugins I wrote to use on my homepage are broken. Not good.First was my Xbox plugin - which I never actually got round to publicly releasing - for which the API I was using had apparently stopped returning data...Read the full article

While putting together the recent redesign for this site, I decided it was high time I stuck some share/bookmark links on posts. As far as driving traffic towards the site goes, making it as easy as possible for people to share links to my posts is a no brainer...Read the full article

I've written a simple plugin - which I've imaginatively named "Last.fm for Sweetcron" - for use with the Sweetcron lifecasting software. You add your loved tracks/recent tracks feed, and it uses the Last...Read the full article

I stumbled across a fancy little open source app last week called Sweetcron (hat tip to Dave), which turns your online presence into a "lifecast". The premise is simple - you give it an RSS feed, and it processes it and stores the items from the feed...Read the full article

After realising last week that I'm still paying for 3 separate web hosting packages, this weekend seemed like a good time to think about consolidating all the sites I'm hosting for people onto a single server...Read the full article

After a little prompting yesterday, I decided to spend a bit of time looking into the Flickr API and what I could do with it - up to now Ive been happy with pulling photos from the RSS feeds.Without spending too much time looking, I came across a Flickr API PHP Wrapper made by none other than Rasmus Lerdorf using CURL...Read the full article