Archives for the 'programming' Category
Firefox’s Extensibility
If you’re still using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser, shame on you! While Microsoft was busy reveling it its browser war victory over Netscape the open source community was quietly building alternatives to IE. Mozilla’s Firefox leads this group and has caused Microsoft to pay attention and begin to innovate and add features […]
More Clouds
Last week I wrote PHP scripts to generate tag clouds for The Rhetoric’s sidebar. Tag clouds are a specific kind of weighted list in which words are arranged in a continuous list. The words are generally displayed with a weight and/or size that correspond to their frequency.
The first cloud I wrote was […]
Category Cloud
Today I wrote a script to dynamically create a cloud of categories for The Rhetoric’s sidebar. It was fairly simple with PHP, MySQL, and the WordPress libraries. I also moved some things around on the sidebar and brought back the blogroll that’s been missing since the upgrade to WordPress 2.1.
Let me know what […]
Phlickr PHP5 Libraries
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I recently purchased Building Flickr Applications With PHP from Amazon.com and read it on the airplane to Boston. The authors, Rob Kunkle and Andrew Morton, do a fantastic job explaining how to install the Phlickr PHP5 libraries and use them to harness the power of the Flickr API.
I’ve recently started using Phlickr to write code […]