Programming, Online Community, Web 2.0 and Sri Lanka
Gmail got a face-lift today. The main sections Mail, Contacts and Tasks are links on the top left. All actions are buttons so Compose was changed to a button as well. Small changes but have a look at this line in the change log.
A smaller header area puts the first message in your inbox about 16 pixels higher on the screen.
Now that’s the kind of detail most people don’t bother with. These days sweating the small stuff seems to be the way to keep above the competition.
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Ya unless you work on PHP SimpleXML that title won’t make much sense. But if you do and you need to mess with SimpleXML as I have been lately to parse some Media RSS feeds you will need to use this function.
I was using it to store some urls in a drupal job queue and it was dropping in serialized SimpleXMLElement objects rather than urls.
If you go to the relevant PHP manual page you will find a comment that explains that you need to cast these attributes as string to get the value I was looking to store.
What was more interesting was Googling php SimpleXMLElement shows the solution on the second result as a summery.
Damn they are good.
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I use a plugin to post to twitter every time I post a blog post. I also have Facebook pull in my new posts and notes. This works reasonably well and I get some traffic from them.
You can also use twitter tools to post your tweets on your blog after a certain threshold. I don’t use that because I want to keep things separate. I’d rather have a block that shows my latest tweets somewhere.
There are so many ways you can cross post from your blog to twitter to Facebook and LinkedIn. For me personally this is too much cross posting of not too related content. Let me explain.
On twitter I have mostly techies, locals, bloggers and new age marketers. On Facebook I have friends and family who for the most part are not techies at all. On LinkedIn I have co-workers and professionals.
So for me at least these networks mean different things. I saw a tweet yesterday on LinkedIn it was a personal quote about love. Also when you see auto posted blog posts with tweets and link bits it seems less personal and mechanical. You know the blogger hasn’t taken the time to write something.
I prefer to post separately to each network depending on what I have to say. This is except for getting link backs for my blog posts which I mentioned first.
I’m sure there are people with a consistent profiles across networks that pull this off well, but I’ve yet to see one.
My 2 cents is keep things simple and think of the audience for your post before you setup automatic cross site posting.
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I noticed on TechCrunch that Google Chrome has been updated. So I checked to see if mine was up to date.
Go to the spanner > About
Then on the About box you should get a Update Now button if there is an update.
Click that and you should be good to go!
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I’ve been getting some requests for small PHP projects. At the moment I’m not taking on any projects. If you still think I should have a look email me a specification or the requirement and I will try to give some feedback or recommend another person who might be willing to take it on.
Freelance developers! Please contact me with a brief of your skills so I can contact you when I get requests like this.
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