Ninedays Blog

Playing with API’s is fun, here’s a quick demo of how to use the Digg API to find out how many times an individual page has been Dugg. Super easy to implement anywhere using PHP5.

Using the FeedBurner and del.icio.us API’s and feeds you can add the number of FeedBurner subscribers or del.icio.us bookmarks to any of your sites of blog pages with just a little PHP and ingenuity!

I’ve done a guest blog at the Lifestream Blog. Go check it out now, or I’ll fight you ;)

As I push the new look/feel live I know I’ve got a long road of change ahead of me.

One of my favorite trends online is using relative dates like ‘1 week ago’ or ‘4 days ago’ instead of the standard June 11, 2008. I find it helpful in really getting a feel for the freshness of an entry or comment and it’s super easy to implement in WordPress.

A quick little lesson about how to test a new theme in WordPress and perfect it for your use without making it live to the public. Best part is: you don’t have to install a new copy of WordPress!

I got written up in two blogs today. How cool is that?!?!

Using the JavaScript library Prototype I can easily make any external links open in a new window, as well as change the rel=”external” links to open in a target=”_blank” window!

Wordpress’ built in smart quote formatting was turning my code into un-copy and pastable stuff. Not good! I found a way to turn it off but I”m looking for a way to make it smart enough to avoid all my code.

I’m making Firefox work better for my needs. I use the location bar as a Google search bar and now I can customize it with keywords to do a search through php.net, my own site, or any other search. I can also just use keywords to pull up specific bookmarks.