Programming
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Today I’m having fun with Ebay. As 99% of big web services, they provide an API. An API (Application Program Interface) is a “way” to connect to their work. Most of the time a Web Site’s API is in form of web service.They give you an url where you can send queries or XML files [...]
Clicky Widget List update
Monday, August 13th, 2007I’ve updated my Clicky Top10 Widget. As you may have noted, sometimes you see urls instead of proper titles. Unfortunately this is a bug in Clicky. To make the list appears good, I’ve decided to simply cut those urls. $testT = str_replace(” “,”",$ititle); if (strlen($testT)==strlen($ititle) && strlen($ititle)>25){ //single word $ititle = substr($ititle,0,25); } The code [...]
Blog Research: Programming
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007I am planning to give more details on how my Blog Research Software is made in order to get more people attracted to the art of programming. :-) I think everyone could build a simple “Blog Reader” to gather some information, just for fun as I started it. The big issue when you start to [...]
Blog Research: recognizing WordPress
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007I’m going on with my Blog research. Right now my app is running. I’m parsing all the sites on my Database to find out WordPress Blogs. My newest technique is simple. I add “/wp-admin/” to any url and I see if the page exists. I have to check if I get redirected to another page, [...]
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