Alex King, a WordPress über-hacker (and formerly a b2/b2evolution hacker), is writing a series of posts about his recent redesign of alexking.org. His latest post describes the numerous WordPress plugins he’s using, many of which he wrote. I’m not using any of these right now, but I steal Alex’s ideas and code all the time… Continue reading Alex King WordPress Plugin Roundup
BlackBerry Browser User Agent
FYI: My BlackBerry’s Web browser identifies itself (i.e., “User Agent”) as: BlackBerry8700/4.1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 So in PHP, an inexpensive check would be something like: if ( 0 === stripos($useragent, ‘blackberry’) ) { echo “True”; }
UPDATE: Washington Post Fixes Website for Mobile Users
After about two weeks of unresponsiveness, I finally found yet another way to contact the Washington Post to complain about their broken website (see my previous post for more info). This time, they promptly responded to my complaint, and within three or four days, the website was fixed. My contact person, Sarah Lumbard, was courteous… Continue reading UPDATE: Washington Post Fixes Website for Mobile Users
Shame on you, Washington Post
At some point today, the Washington Post broke its website for Blackberry users (and perhaps other mobile device users). Now, any time I try to access an article by clicking on a link in my RSS aggregator on my Blackberry, I get redirected to some lame “mobile site,” and I can’t see the story I’m… Continue reading Shame on you, Washington Post
Resolution of trouble with CentOS 4 + PHP 5.1 + Zend Optimizer
I have a server running CentOS 4.4 updated with the PHP 5.1.6 from the testing repository. When I tried to install Zend Optimizer 3.0.2, I ran into this problem: Failed loading [path]/ZendOptimizer. so: [path]/ZendOptimizer. so: undefined symbol: match Then, when I tried to downgrade and install Zend Optimizer 3.0.1, I ran into this problem: Failed… Continue reading Resolution of trouble with CentOS 4 + PHP 5.1 + Zend Optimizer
Answer the door
Dave Winer is looking for a developer to work on Share Your OPML. If you’re interested, I strongly urge you to pick up the baton. I can vouch for what Dave says in his post: he’s demanding, but he really invests in the people with whom he works. As long as you’re not a prima… Continue reading Answer the door
A River for NewsGator
Truly re-inspired by Dave’s injection of interest into mobile news reading, I’ve been tinkering with my own custom solution. Since I subscribe to NewsGator, I’m using the NewsGator API for some backend, but I’ve done quite a bit of plumbing myself. The most important things I wanted to be able to do were (1) to… Continue reading A River for NewsGator
Yomoblog is the first killer web app for mobile devices
I’m testing Dave Winer’s new web application: Yomoblog. It is a dead simple tool for creating, editing and categorizing blog posts from your web-enabled PDA.
Optimal Bugfix
I released a bugfix for Optimal today. The latest version is 0.4c. If you haven’t experienced any weird problems with the 0.4 release, don’t bother updating. Thanks to Chris Pirillo for bringing the problem to my attention and working through it with me.
Optimal OPML Browser Update v. 0.4
I’ve completed a major rewrite of my OPML browser, Optimal. I didn’t manage to document all of the changes, they were so numerous. Highlights are: Object-oriented reimplementation, making it more portable to other applications Same code may be used as a WordPress plugin — replaces the OPML Renderer plugin for WordPress RSS items now include… Continue reading Optimal OPML Browser Update v. 0.4