Archive for April, 2007

OPML Feed Reading for PHP (Technorati Favorites Example)

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I wanted to share some of the work I have done while working on the favorite.me project. I will, over the next weeks, release most of the code but today I thought I would cover the OPML reader. It […]

30Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

The calm before the storm?

The whole Technorati favorites subject took a few new twists in the last 12 hours. I dropped a quick note over to Darren at Problogger to see what he thought of favorite.me. It turned out (as you can see from his post) that he was in the middle of writing an article about favorite exchanges. […]

30Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 5 comments | Continued

Removing usability barriers

I wanted to just to recount a small piece of wisdom from one of Joel Spolsky’s books. I have been fiddling all day with favorite.me and one thing became obvious, that there was a ‘barrier’ that was stopping people using the site easily. Joel in his book devotes a whole chapter to the topic of […]

28Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 9 comments | Continued

Social networking experiment using Technorati API

I have today finished a mini-project that I started after having a minor brainwave. I had seen a lot of blogs recently being used to swap favorites, most notably of which was the experiment by DOSH DOSH. This required its users to add Dosh to their favorites, then post a comment saying they had done […]

27Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 10 comments | Continued

NuSphere releases major update to PhpED

Just got an email from the nice people at NuSphere telling me the new version of PhpED has been released. It is now version 5 and has quite a few major enhancements including code folding which is a feature I was really hoping for. When editing a large file with a lot of methods/functions being […]

26Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

Image Concatenation and best fit algorithms EQUALS web server performance

I was reading about Image Concatenation in CSS today. The concept allows for all the individual images on a website to be displayed from a single larger image. The extremely useful benefit of this is less image HTTP requests. This technique is only applicable to sites that already have some form of static image […]

26Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 5 comments | Continued
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