Archive for September, 2006

If your in the market for a groupware solution I highly reccomend activeCollab. It’s free and Open Source and it’s got most of the beels and whistles the other free/pay hosted services offer. But the thing I like most is that it’s a downloadable/installable server software that I have control over. This [...]

September 28th, 2006

Using Prototype’s Ajax.Updater with Multi Form Elements

Comments Off, AJAX, by jay.

This is a quick little tip on how to pass more than one Form Element to the Ajax.Updater function in Prototype.
This came about because I wanted to do a form POST and not a GET with several Form fields but the only documentation on the internet explained how to send ONE Form field.
It's very simple [...]

September 20th, 2006

Firefox Extension: FireFTP

Comments Off, Firefox Extensions, by jay.

I found this sweet Firefox Extension: FireFTP that works like a frickin charm. This extension may in fact get me to back into using Linux more because now that I have a nice alternative to use in Xubuntu aside from gFTP. (I haven't been using Linux as much lately due to my dislike [...]

September 18th, 2006

PHP RSS Development

Comments Off, PHP, by jay.

This is page contains code snippets, links to tutorials and a list or RSS Parsers for PHP RSS Development.
RSS Parsers
Magpie
SimplePie
lastRSS
PEAR: XML_RSS
FeedCreator.class.php
RSSMix
RSS2Array

September 15th, 2006

Rallypoint Says Farewell

Comments Off, Web2.0, by jay.

Has anyone else seen this?
Another Web2.0 is closing it's doors.
I am only pointing this out because I was about to write a review of Collaboration services.
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The Rallypoint team is sorry to say we will be shutting down within the next 15 days. This is a decision not easily made because we have grown [...]

September 15th, 2006

Add the tagthe.net service to Ultimate Tag Warrior

Comments Off, Plugins, by jay.

A few days ago noticed that the Tag Suggestion functions in Ultimate Tag Warrior were no longer working. So I spent a few hours this week looking into the issue and came up with an alternative solution. UTW provides two Tag Suggestion options. One is from Yahoo and the other from Tagyu. [...]

This is my first publicy released WordPress Plugin/Widget. This plugin reads a Writely RSS Feed and display the items in a Widget on your sidebar. It's based entirley on the RSS Feed Widget that comes with the WordPress Widgets Control but instead of just displaying the feed items I have modified it to [...]