BarCamp Talk on Web Service APIs
Last week, I gave a talk at BarCamp Nashville on Leveraging Web Service APIs. Many thanks to the conference organizers who were able to move me to a session later in the day at the last minute...
Snipplr's Popularity Continues to Grow With Over 7,000 Registered Users
Snipplr, a social networking code repository created by Sitening, reached over 7,000 registered users today. Thanks to a highly acclaimed redesign, the past year has shown incredible growth for the...
MyBlogLog WordPress Plugin
Skip all the talk and get the plugin! Here at Sitening, we have had the privilege of being granted access to the new MyBlogLog API while in its beta stage. As a developer primarily working with...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Announces Limited Beta for New Database Service - SimpleDB
The Amazon Web Services team just announced SimpleDB - the long anticipated database service to complement S3, EC2, and SQS. Now there will be an alternative to managing your own SQL cluster within...
Flexiscale, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Nirvanix Comparison
FlexiScale is a new UK based on-demand computing service, similar to Nirvanix and the EC2/S3/SQS components of Amazon Web Services. While they all provide basic computing and storage through a...
Seriously, Keep it Simple, Stupid
Like Scott, I spent last week in Portland attending OSCON. The first session I went to was a joint talk given by Rasmus Lerdorf and Thomas Sha. Rasmus is a Yahoo! software architect and the creator of...
PHP Programming Contest
Nick Halstead is running a PHP contest on his blog and offering a free copy of Zend Studio to the winner. It's a wonderfully simple challenge that doesn't require arcane PHP knowledge or experience...
Adobe Apollo Bundle for TextMate
Since the announcement of Adobe's new cross-platform runtime, Apollo, I've been busy building sample applications and dreaming up new ideas. To make this easier, I created a quick Apollo bundle for...
New TextMate Book Available
Sitening's favorite editor for developing websites — TextMate — has a new book for learning the ins and outs of this amazing program. It's called, "Textmate: Power Editing for the Mac...
Top 10 Code Snippets from Snipplr
Snipplr was launched in June 2006. With Snipplr you can keep all of your frequently used code snippets in one place that's accessible from any computer. You can share your code with other visitors and...
Google's Binary Search May Propel New Security, Copyright And SEO Initiatives
A recent PC World article, "Google's Binary Search Helps Identify Malware", shed light on a little known feature of Google's search engine — the ability to search binary files. Google is...
Getting Real With Databases in PHP
It's no secret that I don't like Ruby on Rails. My friends know it. My co-workers definitely know it. And I guess now you do, too. Ruby itself is a fine language, and there are lots of great web...
Excel Line Endings Break PHP
Here's a quick tip that might save the PHP developers out there some time. (It would have saved me thirty minutes of debugging if I had know this earlier.) When you export an Excel file as a CSV in...
Deprecated HTML Tag Stripper for TextMate
Earlier this year, Jon posted a Perl script that Scott wrote which strips out deprecated HTML tags and showed how to run this as a plugin for BBEdit. Slowly over the last few months I've convinced Jon...
Instant Development Network
We completed the cre824 competition this morning. Our submission came out great, and we somehow managed to complete everything we set out to accomplish. My favorite piece of the competition was...
