Easy Feed integrations for PHP - SimplePie is a code library which gives you an easy to use OO API for feeds. It allows easy merging of feeds from multiple sources. This API handles all of the hard work for fetching, caching, parsing, normalizing data between RSS and Atom formats, handling character encoding and sanitizing the feed data.
I’ve setup a sample lifefeed from various services I’m on, using SimplePie and some of their demo code over at webfeed.vinuthomas.com
Ubuntu’s latest and greatest version, Hardy Heron was released last night. Just couldn’t access the Ubuntu site just after the release. Started downloading the new release a few minutes back, all the download mirrors are either slow or crawling - have to switch to torrents to download.
Microsoft has just lauched Live Mesh which provides a platform to connect various devices to share information.
Microsoft has taken the wraps off a Technology Preview of its new Live Mesh platform, which promises to connect disparate devices so they can seamlessly share information. But beyond the surface, Live Mesh portends that Microsoft doesn’t just want to compete on the Web; it wants to be the Web.
Hardy Heron is just hours from getting released. Congratulations to the Ubuntu team in advance on getting this release out.
Can’t wait to get a hold of this release. For those of you who’re planning on upgrading to this new version from your existing 7.10 release, here’s a set of handy instructions from ubuntu-tutorials.com to guide you through the update. This article shows you how to go about the upgrade using the update manager
Finally a scrobbler for Symbian S60 phones - now you can scrobble what you listen to on your mobile to last.fm. To check if your phone is compatible, head over to a comprehensive list of S60 Phones. You don’t have to be online all the time for your tracks to be submitted to Last.fm. Mobbler will queue up the tracks you’ve played and will send all of them online as soon as you go online and connect to last.fm
Just got the latest firmware update for the N82 yesterday. The new update seems to have improved the stability of my mobile, it used to restart randomly when it was connected to Truphone over Wifi. The firmware update seems to have solved this issue. Other cool features in the new update are:
Here’s a new addon called Zementa for Firefox, which suggests content for your blog as you create your posts. This plugin currently works for Wordpress (hosted and self-hosted), Typepad and Blogger. The content suggested by Zementa are all copyright cleared so you don’t have to go trolling for content and licence issues for your blog.
I’ve installed this on my blog to see how it works, and the suggestions given by this seem to be pretty good. It adds new sidebars to the Wordpress Edit post screen for the sugestions presented.
In this article image on the right, the in-article links and the related article links below are all from Zementa’s plugin.
Just out a few hours back - The Google App Engine - it’s a preview release, and I was late in getting to this news and missed out on the initial invites - but have added myself to the invite queue.
PHP devs may curse Google on this since Python is only supported language out here in Google App Engine territory.
Google App Engine gives you access to the same building blocks that Google uses for its own applications, making it easier to build an application that runs reliably, even under heavy load and with large amounts of data. The development environment includes the following features:
Dynamic webserving, with full support of common web technologies
Persistent storage (powered by Bigtable and GFS with queries, sorting, and transactions)
Automatic scaling and load balancing
Google APIs for authenticating users and sending email
Fully featured local development environment
Google App Engine packages these building blocks and takes care of the infrastructure stack, leaving you more time to focus on writing code and improving your application.
