Archive for April, 2008

Read Wordpress RSS Feeds, YouTube Video Lists, and more…

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

I needed to grab a couple of new blog entries on a website’s wordpress blog area, and put it on a non-wordpress home page. I ended up making a PHP 5 class that did the job for me. Very simple, no fancy stuff.

I then needed to get a load of youtube video posts on the same site from a specific account and had to make a list of that, with thumbnails etc. . I ended up tweaking the first class ever so slightly and lucky me, I had an easy feed reader.

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Virtual PC for browser checking and more…

Friday, April 4th, 2008

I was a little short of extra computers for browser testing recently (RIP PCs) and so I gave Virtual PC a try. Installing XP on my Vista Installation is dead easy, and admittedly does save me some space on my desk when browser testing. The fact that Microsoft gives it for free is an interesting one….

Rather than explain how it works or give some instructions, I will make it brief and pass on some links I found useful to sites that do the job perfectly well: (more…)