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Nada, que sólo quedan cuatro días, o por qué no, digamos que quedan tres, ¡que este ya se está acabando!

Mientras por Spain nos preparan una sauna de julio, aquí ha estado cayendo una tormenta de rayos y centellas. No me extraña que Oscar Wilde escribiera esas novelazas romantiquísimas con fantasmas, grilletes, truenos y nubarrones. El ambiente invita…

Thanks to Recena's administrative help, now my ping-o-matic works correctly. Someone at technorati might have turned fool while I was testing, probably. But hey, that's their job!

To celebrate, I have added something that Madieta was always asking for, now you can enter some html in my comments and I'll ignore them almost completely (but not at all). Time for submitting your precious code here … or something like that. There has been more hidden work for this blog today but nothing that I can show yet.

Watching that video that trace found yesterday I can't do less than wonder if one day I'll be a grandmother like the one that appears in it.

The ideal grandmother that every technological addict kid would like to have!!

This is simply incredible… technology evolves a lot and, now avoiding the simplest fun, all of us should try to encourage people of all ages to use computers and not to remain obsolete on their ignorance of technology. A cool aim could be to have lots of techie grandma's in the future, able to communicate with and use the newest devices and platforms available. And for this all everybody has to collaborate: developers and users :)

So, get ready for the next generation of grandma's !!

UPDATE: I have just found this post about the increasingly amount of people surfing the web …. which belong to the techie-grandpa's range :)

5 días para el Gran Día…! No soy capaz de dominar mi impaciencia…. Sol, calor, playa…

Argh… me estoy convirtiendo en una guiri XD

I started to use technorati not so much ago. One day I found the page to ping them. Ping? What's that ping thing? I started to look for some info but nothing quite clear at the beginning. Finally after doing some research, I discovered that it's a way to let know other server that you have new, updated content. To do that, you have to use some RPC = Remote Procedure Call, which belong to those famous techniques called Web Services. And in a raw manner, we could say it's based on exchanging messages in xml format between computers - you don't need a human to interact with a computer, somehow, now are the computers the ones which chat ;)

I didn't have any willing to build an application or function in my blog to send or receive those xml messages. Luckily someone decided to let some clues around just in case one needed to do a custom pinging method. Concretely, in this page on Paddy works called Blog Pings you can find the almost perfect code needed for pinging technorati. But there's not any point in the blog entry where it says something essential: you will need a PEAR package installed, concretely the XML-RPC package. Once you get it, uninstall it and put in some accessible point for your script, for example, if your script for posting entries is called blog_post.php, put the PEAR XML-RPC code in a folder called XML which contains RPC.php, Server.php and Dump.php. Then from blog_post.php the require_once('XML/RPC.php') which appears in the sample code of Paddy Works will work.

If you get any error of not finding some PEAR function, you'll have to install the base code of PEAR, just in case your provider has not installed the base classes.