20120121 A hack to parse RSS feeds with php

Just happened to assemble this script hack recently, out of the requirement for a quick’n’dirty feed parsing feature: $feed_contents = file_get_contents($feed_url); $xml = simplexml_load_string($feed_contents, LIBXML_NOCDATA); $feed_array = json_decode(json_encode($xml)); print_r($feed_array); // Surprise!! Now this evidently is not SimplePie or Magpie RSS or whatever feed reader library tickles your fancy*, but assuming the feed will never be [...]

20100614 Debunking Smarty myths

I have found yet another article condemning the use of Smarty because… [...] When you add a template language on top of this the template language has to be interpreted, converted to php and then interpreted as php and outputted. This doubles the amount of work that the cpu has to do to return the [...]

20091117 Delicatessen v2

Let me introduce Delicatessen v2, the new version of my WordPress plug-in for finding out who’s bookmarked your posts in delicious.com It has taken a bit too long to produce this version, but it at last behaves like a nice netizen, and won’t spam delicious.com with too many queries in a very little time, therefore [...]

20091102 SyHi: my minimalistic syntax highlighting plug-in for WordPress

I had been using Code Snippet for a year, or a couple of years (I can’t really remember), and was more or less happy with it. Apart from the fact that it didn’t preserve some stuff properly, like double dashes and quotes. So then I tried adding another plug-in to the mix, Preserve Code Formatting. [...]

20090710 “Blue Tuesday” sources released

“Blue Tuesday” is a direct evolution from the codecolors code base. Since it was all done in a hurry, there were lots of things which didn’t work as expected. I somehow got rid of some of them when I ported the demo to mac, then I got rid of some extra things these days when [...]