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Twitter Voter

I had a quick challenge this evening. I needed to create a PHP script that imports Twitter posts that are marked with a specific tag. Then others can vote on those posts by doing an @-reply and then also including the same tag. For example, Piet posts "i ate

Full Metal Panic on Zoopy

There are clearly some more Anime / FMP fans on Zoopy! :)

7 November Geek Breakfast

Unfortunately this is a bit late to write feedback but I've been busy with all kinds of hacking the last while and blogging suffered. Although this is the first time we really write about it publicly, we have now been doing Geek Breakfasts for about half a year. The

Facebook Add Application

Some Facebook application developers will force their users to add the application just to see a canvas page. I, on the other side, am not a stats whore. First look, make an informed decision, then add if you like. I prefer to add a "Add Application" link to the

Google Contacts API with Zend Framework

A few weeks ago I set up the following two example scripts of how to retrieve a list of names and e-mail addresses out of your Google address book via the API using Zend Framework. There are some others like this out there but this one is a bit

Disabled Comments in Wordpress Classic

I had some complaints that when comments are disabled in Wordpress, the classic theme displays text like "No Comments" and "Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time." Here is a quick patch I made on a clean install of 2.6.3: --- comments.php.old 2008-11-16 21:45:27.000000000

Google Reverse Geocoding

So Google finally released a feature they call Reverse Geocoding. Normal Geocoding means that you can get GPS coordinates back if you feed it a location name. Reverse Geocoding therefore means that you get location names back if you feed it GPS coordinates. So I thought it was time

.za fees

I think the concept behind nom.za is excellent. I am a firm believer that the internet should be free and open to all and that definitely includes domain names, especially for the poor. However, it doesn’t really seem like they are getting around to making many new approvals. On

Web Museum!

Ah, a trip down memory lane... A few days ago I discovered a site called agric.za. Yes, they actually have a private SLD under the .za namespace. They must have registered this in the days when that was still allowed. Another example is pix.za. It is clear by the

Developers are not investors

I myself and many others I know have been confronted by way too many of these offers to count over the years: shares in exchange for working either for free or at a very poor salary. Now firstly, don’t get me wrong. It’s not like I don’t value shares

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