BlogBuzz August 22, 2009

Aug 22, 2009 by Matt | Posted in BlogBuzz No Comments

Kohana: Cleaner CodeIgniter For PHP 5

Aug 21

One of the major criticisms of the CodeIgniter PHP framework is its continued support for PHP 4. The developers of the language announced two years ago that PHP 4 development, security patches included, would cease by the end of 2007. The CodeIgniter project still…

PHP stdClass: Storing Data in an Object Instead of an Array

Aug 20

Have you ever seen a scenario where you’re accessing data as an object, such as when you’re using WordPress’s database interface or when you’re parsing XML files with SimpleXML? You have something like echo $result->name. Have you ever wondered how that was done? Using…

Pingdom Ranks URL Shorteners

Aug 19

Pingdom has tested the major URL shorteners for speed and stability, in the aftermath of the Tr.im fiasco, with interesting yet unsurprising results. One thing that has surprised us a bit here at Pingdom is that we haven’t seen any real numbers on how…

Project Retweet: Twitter is Adding Native Retweet Support

Aug 18

If you follow social media coverage much, you’ve probably heard already through Mashable or TechCrunch: Twitter is rethinking the retweet, and integrating native API calls for retweeting into the service.

Remember WP.com? Meet the WP.me URL Shortener

Aug 17

Automattic has acquired another wicked-short domain name: WP.me. Not only is it a WordPress.com-specific URL shortener, but it is the only two-letter .me domain in the world, for the time being anyway. There is now a “Get Shortlink” button next to your permalink when…

BlogBuzz August 15, 2009

Aug 15

HTML Text Over an Image

Aug 14

Have you ever seen a site where HTML text is rendered over an image? One example of this is Pro Blog Design‘s article headings. The effect looks good, and it’s search engine-friendly. CSS-Tricks has a tutorial on how to create a similar implementation with…

WP.com Step 1: “Get WordPress”

Aug 13

Automattic recently acquired WP.com for their WordPress.com hosted blog service, as you may remember. They still don’t seem to have quite decided what to do with it, aside from redirecting it to WordPress.com. Users seem to want their blogs to be available as subdomains…

Tr.im: No, We’re Not Closing After All…

Aug 12

Remember all the hoopla about Tr.im closing down their service? Well, they changed their mind. We have restored tr.im, and re-opened its website. We have been absolutely overwhelmed by the popular response, and the countless public and private appeals I have received to keep…