Archive for the ‘php’ Category

BeTwittered updates are live.

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

I got a bit of a lesson this morning.  I updated BeTwittered, and was very pleased.  Well, until I noticed that the formatting was junk.  What did I learn?  Stylesheets get cached, and pretty liberally.  So if you were using BeTwittered this morning, and it suddenly looked a bit clunky, ...

BeTwittered Gets an Update Tonight

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I've been hacking about in PHP again.  Found that my use of ereg was outdated by pcre's preg while listening to PHP Architects  "Pro PHP podcast." Besides these archane regular expression changes internally, I've made some nice changes to BeTwittered, my Twitter gadget for Google homepage.  I've made clickable links ...

BeTwittered, PHP and file_get_contents

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

I spent a bit of time this morning adding to my error handling in BeTwittered. Around 8am there was a bit of a service issue at, I believe, the Twitter server end, but I had no way to confirm it. I was, as my own customer, just getting my ...

Do you use Twitter and iGoogle?

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

I've gotten a PHP version of a Google (iGoogle) gadget working.  It follows your friends, and allows you to post, so far. Check it out at 32hours.com, or the direct article link. It's working, and I'll be improving it pretty quickly.

Terrible, Horrible, PHP Tutorial

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

I'm thinking about writing one. A terrible, horrible, PHP tutorial, that is. Why not? There isn't another one out there. Well, maybe there are lots and lots terrible tutorials, but not self professed to be so. I'm thinking very seriously about writing a tutorial as ...