While playing a bit with Xdebug (a profiling tool for PHP), I've come across something I didn't know and that I frankly found a bit odd : how to use output buffering (PHP function ob_start()) to speed up some stuff. In a few words, just so you know if this is obvious noob stuff for you and you can skip…
Me and the terrible world of Instant Messaging.
Remember the fun game The Incredible Machine where you had to build, errr, incredible machines ? Now here is the video. Awesome stuff !
It was quicker than expected, because a kind reader was too impatient for an update so he fixed the script himself :) Thanks to Chris Gibson, my Adsense Earnings RSS Feed is now version 1.1, which is compatible with the recent changes Google made with the query parameters. Thanks a lot Chris !
I knew about the excellent WordPress Xref (read: cross-ref) maintained by Owen Winkler. This is a cross reference of all functions, variables and constants used and defined in WordPress, which provides worthy help when coding things in or for WordPress. I just found about Functions, another project from the same man, which adds a handier way of searching WordPress functions…
Two days ago, there was a nice surprise waiting for me in my inbox : a notice from Paypal telling me that someone had tipped a few bucks in, using my Paypal "Sponsor me I'm doing cool plugins" button (which appears only on plugin pages, if you want to try it:) It's been the first donation I've had so far…
My Adsense Earnings to RSS script has stopped functionning a couple of days ago, since Google modified the pages my script parses to generate an RSS feed. Stay tuned : I'll update my script later on within the next few days when I have a moment. Sorry for the inconvenience peeps !
My Youtube Favorite Videos is my latest plugin. Err widget. Well, actually, plugin and widget. Plugget. And guess what, it displays your latest favorite videos from Youtube, right on your blog. Yes. I know you love it already. Get it.
Los Ochentas ("The Eighties" in spanish). All the hits you had forgotten, on Youtube. Memories :)
Some guy had a fun idea : modify his wp-comments.php so this file would write back 47 MB to spambots that try to POST something into it. Waste of bandwidth or ultimate answer ? Apparently he got completely rid of spam in a few days :)