Monthly Archives: July 2010

Writing an API in PHP for your app

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Lately I have writing an API for Micro Site Manager a satellite site generator. This app is currently in Alpha stage and is being tested by a number of my clients.

If written a lot of bespoke PHP code to handle data transfer between the site and the satellite sites. So a Satellite makes a request for page information and this is return with JSON formatted information.

Now I have come across a site were all the hard work has been done for you. This code can generate JSON, XML, CSV and also limit usage per hour per user.

The code on costs $7, so a bargain. I could have coded this myself but this saves me time.

Experimenting with Node.js

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Now I know nothing about websockets and node.js. But this website is impressive. You will need a browser that supports web sockets like Google Chrome or Safari.

The goto this site and see ghostly cursors moving around your page. This is in fact others users on the same page realtime. Very impressive.

I guess you could use it to see how users read a page on your site

Bing Re-release webmaster tools

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Bing Webmaster Tools - Traffic Summary

Bing Webmaster Tools - Traffic Summary

Bimg/Microsoft have updated their webmaster tools suite to match Google’s offering this morning. A quick look at the features shows that they are now giving siomiliar information to what Google also provide but with the addition of fancy graphs using Microsoft silverlight.

Its a big jump from their previous offering, which did not provide webmasters with much feedback. This now leaves Yahoo way behind with their site explorer offering and Ask who have not even started to provide such features.