Archive for August, 2009

4 Simple PHP RSS Parser

Sometimes you need to parse RSS from other website and integrate to your project. Well you can create your own library to parse that RSS, but before wasting your development time, please take a look these great libraries for parsing RSS.

SimplePie

simplepie

SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use PHP class to parse RSS.

Features :

  • Single file, no install.
  • Cache mechanism.
  • Has plugin for such as Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and others.

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Why We Need Version Control

Before I know pieces of software called version control, I always make duplicates for changes in my project, mostly only major changes. Something like this :

Yumbaa-2009-07-12.zip

Why? For keeping track stable version of my code. Sometimes I get lost, and it is easier to get started from the latest stable version of my code than to undo the changes I’ve made.

And it is got worse when you need to work with someone else, imagine you need to tell the other person what files you have modified. Well, after 3-5 hours, I just no longer remember what files I’ve modified or added to the project, and it end up with the other person copy all the files in the project. So what will happen if your project get bigger and the network is very slow? Not good at all.

So, here the deal : there is pieces of software called version control or SCM that will handle those problems for you. So, what are you waiting for?

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