I've been wanting to do a 'Something-A-Some-amount-of-time', and since I just made a WordPress Widget, which is pretty easy, and with WordPress 2.2, widget support is available by default, I decided to do a 'WordPress Widget-A-Day'.
Over the next week, though I'll probably start today, so I guess it'll have 4 extra or maybe just 1 [...]
I just finished making a new paintball classified site that takes feeds from various paintball sites across the web, and brings them into one easy to use place.
Paintball Classifieds – Find Paintball Gear to Buy, Sell, or Trade
Here's how the front end works:
First, you go to the site, and are presented with the 20 latest [...]
Genius!
Sucks that it isn't for PHP 4. For this site, at the moment, I'm forced to use PHP4, since PHP5 breaks permalinks for WordPress for some reason. It's not Wordpress's fault, though. Just the crappiness that is this shared hosting.
Anyways, I've used SimpleXML for most of XML parsing in PHP. Mainly for the reason that [...]
Sputtr, come on. You're just about as bad as SimpleWeather.
Sputtr is a site that allows you to search multiple search engines from one page. Woo hoo! It also looks to be done in PHP, for some reason. Why PHP? Who know, since a static HTML file is more than enough.
Want proof? Here's a nice sputtr [...]
You invented IRC!
So Meebo's new Meebo Rooms feature launched last night, and it's a totally spectacular, original idea. It's like a chat room, but instead of just having a boring chat room, you can watch a video next to it. No more of that link and having to click-through shit for us. I mean, that [...]
I don't like Google's Toolbar, or really toolbars in general. Maybe it's because it brings back memories of horrible IE interfaces with way too many, or that the logos are just bright and don't fit in at all, or maybe it's just that I like to see as much page as possible. But for whatever [...]
Neat. Looks like last.fm just added flash widgets, or at least, I think they just did. I might have been slow in finding them.
Anyways, instead of having just an image based on your chart, it's now a fancy flash "widget". I guess images aren't Web 2.0 enough. Which means, instead of about 120 bytes of [...]
Digg's api was released about a week ago a while ago, and since that time, various flash projects have surfaced, probably due to that pesky contest. But I don't have any flash experience, so PHP, here we come.
We're going to make various tag clouds, a Reddit clone, Reddit/Better RSS feed, and a live diggs app.
Update [...]
If you didn't know, I loves me Google Reader. It's just so badass, but many paintball sites don't have RSS feeds, or they're hidden away. Most are stuck in the old, you have to go to the site site to get content phase. But, I've compiled a list of paintball releated RSS feeds, which some [...]
Here is the graph of my DNS queries in the past month via opendns
Notice how the left is about 10 times taller than the right. What changed? Switching over to Linux, and that's it. I'm still doing basically the same thing as before. You can see that from the graph of unique domains.
Now, it does [...]