Yearly Archives: 2009
May 29, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Featured, Software & Scripts
I’ve been trying out Tweetie for Mac lately. It’s a Mac OSX-native Twitter client with a very nice, polished interface. It has many of the features of Nambu, but it lacks the instability that Nambu tends to have from its current “beta” status.
Tweetie supports multiple Twitter accounts, and let’s you switch between them with a cool vertical slide effect. It offers the usual basic Twitter functions (friends timeline, mentions, direct messages) as well as some streamlined search abilities, including the ability to save favorite searches that you frequently track.
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May 28
My newest post on Net.Tuts+ was published yesterday: 40+ Invaluable PHP Tutorials and Resources It is a roundup of articles, tutorials and tools of interest to PHP coders, on topics such as security, OOP, frameworks, and WordPress. PHP is one of the most popular…
May 27
PHP has some useful functions for dealing with capital letters in string variables. You can make a string all uppercase or lowercase. You can make only the first letter a capital, as in a name, or every other letter a capital for a title…
May 26
I have about twice the number of Twitter followers as I do RSS subscribers. RSS is an open standard built from the ground up to serve-up new content as it is released. It excells at delivering information and making it readable in a quick…
May 25
The second beta of WordPress 2.8 has been released. If you develop plugins or themes, it’s about time to do some testing. From the looks of things, I project that the final release should be available sometime this June. We may see another beta…
May 24
Chris Coyier has written an interesting article on securing form scripts. Serious Form Security talks about token matching, hack logging, and a few other useful techniques to apply to a form processing script. Token matching is definitely a trick worth learning, since it will…
May 22
Need to check the number of characters in a string, perhaps for sending user input to Twitter via the API? It can be done easily by using the strlen() function, which simply returns the number of characters in the string passed to it. $phrase…
May 21
On December 31, 2007 the PHP Group discountinued support for PHP 4. Since then, there have been no updates to the branch, security or otherwise. PHP 5 is the currently supported branch, and it is far superior to its predecessor. Web hosts have, for…
May 20
Jeffrey Way (editor of Net.Tuts+) has a new article on his personal blog that brings up a topic that I think deserves some attention. He writes: I woke up this morning to a rude email from a reader today. “Jeff,” he said, “I’m sorry,…
