Founder of Awio Web Services LLC,
graduate student at Drexel U.,
community advisor at SitePoint.
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Calais Class and Plugins Updated
I know this post is overdue, sorry about that.
I’ve just updated the Open Calais Tags PHP class, which allows you to automatically tag content with Open Calais’ free semantic analysis API. It now uses the v4 API’s REST URL and no longer adds a semicolon to the end of each tag. It’s also [...]
Delicious: Proof that Symfony is a scalable framework
Back almost a year ago, top social bookmarking site del.icio.us, now just delicious, launched a preview of its version 2.0. At the time they announced it was built on the Symfony PHP framework, what I used for W3Counter. With almost a year going by, and rumors of scaling issues, I worried that perhaps Symfony [...]
Review Site Plugin Update Coming
FeedLines has sold 7 copies so far, Award Winning Hosts is racking in the ever-rising web host affiliate commissions, and the plugin that powers its ratings is one of this blog’s most popular pages.
It only makes sense that I should eventually do two things: Update the aging plugin, and charge for copies of [...]
Product in a Day: FeedLines
This is my first attempt at building a simple product of my own to sell, rather than a service or subscription. I watch the SitePoint Marketplace on an almost daily basis, and I see so many simple, turnkey sites sold and resold on a consistent basis. While the scripts behind these sites may seem [...]
WebsiteGoodies.com on WordPress
I just moved Website Goodies, my oldest site at 12 years, over to WordPress as its CMS, replacing dozens of poorly written, exploitably bad PHP files and even worse databases. Now I can manage everything from one place and, perhaps, even give the site some new content. It’s still popular as far as my [...]
Open Calais PHP Class Updated
I’ve updated my Open Calais PHP Class with the entity types added in Calais’ last update. It now matches a bunch of new entertainment-related entities including movies, music and sports event names.
You can drop the new opencalais.php into the folder with either plugin for WordPress and they’ll be able to add the new types [...]
FeedBurner Stops Reporting Reach
It looks like FeedBurner’s API has moved in with Google at Google Code. Without an e-mail or a blog post, they made a few changes that broke W3Counter’s slurping of feed stats. Notably, they are no longer reporting the “reach” metric for some feeds, and it’s disappeared from the API reference… perhaps it was [...]
My First Ray Tracer
Quite tangential to everything else I’ve been doing recently, I wrote my first ray tracer in C++ today. It can render arbitrary triangle meshes defined in SMF format. Next weekend I’ll teach myself shading.
Tagging Large Post Archives Automatically
First, I wrote a PHP class for passing content to Open Calais and getting back tags. Then, a WordPress plugin for tagging posts as you write them. Now, taking it one step further again, here’s a plugin for automatic tagging of your post archives.
I tried tagging for a while last year, but wasn’t consistent [...]
WP Calais Auto Tagger: Automatic Tag Suggestion For Your Posts
I just completed the WP Calais Auto Tagger plugin, the obvious first use of my Open Calais Tags class. It adds a tag suggestion box to your WordPress post writing screen which suggests tags based on your post content using the Open Calais API. The suggestions can be added to the post’s tag list [...]
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