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Test Post : Trackback Added
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This is just a test to see if the new trackback module is working on the live server…
Firing a trackback to the last update entry from August…
Posted on Dec 31, 2004 at 01:28:16. [Comments for Test Post : Trackback Added- 1]
NGS Magazine RSS Feed
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I have just discovered, a little late I might add, that National Geographic now provides an RSS feed allowing excerpts from the latest magazine to be syndicated. Since my copy tends to take a couple of weeks to make its way across the pond, this service provides a nice sneak preview of what is to come.
Posted on Dec 24, 2004 at 02:55:49. [Comments for NGS Magazine RSS Feed- 0]
Moving Up the SERPs
Also relates to SEO
Following the latest Google PR update, I have moved into the top 15 on Google for my name! Quite stoked when I think back to 6 months ago and I was lost somewhere in the depths of the three million or so Google SERP's for Tom Wright!
Posted on Oct 08, 2004 at 03:41:10. [Comments for Moving Up the SERPs- 0]
MyYahoo Brings RSS Home
Also relates to Web Standards
MyYahoo now accommodates for RSS Syndication within its customisable UI. Upto 50 feeds can be subscribed to and served up amidst the rest of the media amalgam. With Yahoo's extensive market share, perhaps this will spread RSS to the web masses and finally make it a household name? Oh, and at last I have found somewhere that collates the football results, weather, TV listings and latest Jobs in a usable format. Thumbs up for Yahoo!
Posted on Oct 03, 2004 at 01:46:58. [Comments for MyYahoo Brings RSS Home- 0]
Few More Changes
Also relates to PEAR
The comments forms on this blog has now been updated to accept a few XHTML tags again. Of course this means validating markup before submitting the data. This server is running PHP4, so unfotunately no access to the new Tidy Library. Therefore I had to look around for some code to handle the validation.
In a previous incarnation of this blog I had put Simon Willison's SafeHtmlChecker class to work. This time round I have decided to allow only a few inline elements. This keep formatting of the comments data to a minimum (for speed), and allows the XHTML validation to be plugged straight into my current validator class. To achieve this I have utilised a simple parser based around the PEAR::XML_HTMLSax package. This SAX based parser is ideal since it will not fail automatically on badly formed XML.
The new form is still in beta so I apologise if anything goes belly-up in use!
Posted on Aug 14, 2004 at 15:52:05. [Comments for Few More Changes- 6]
