Testing WordPress for Android app!!!

My location updates Google latitude via an application running on my iPhone. It updates every 20 minutes assuming it is turned on and I have a signal. Useful to people to keep track where I am, on the other hand what happens if I’m where I shouldn’t be……….as if !!!!!

Interesting that Microsoft have taken an entirely different approach to their version of street view. They also appear to be using is as an income generator with advertising playing a major part.

Street Slide: Browsing Street Level Imagery.

Just call me Mr iPhone Rollbacker from 4.0 to 3.1.3. fixer!!! After marathon session finally managed to revert son’s phone to previous version. But Steve Jobs has a lot to answer for, it should not have been that difficult!!!

I am, are you?

Firefox web browser | Help us test the latest beta.

Adds lots of useful features for CSS, in fact why wasn’t it like this all along would have been things a lot easier and cleaner.

LESS – Leaner CSS.

New site been developed providing handyman services to the York area. See www.simonyorkhandyman.co.uk for more information.

I looked at BumpTop previously and thought it made for an interesting desktop, just wonder Google are planning to do with it?

Google acquires 3D desktop BumpTop.

I required a simple feed from Twitter into www.MindOver-matter.co.uk/news.php. There are numerous examples around but a lot of them are very convoluted. Below is an simple code example. The function could of course be modifed to be generic whereby user info etc would be passed in.

<?php

function parse_cache_feed($usernames, $limit) {
  $feed = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/130211322.rss";
  $xml = new SimpleXMLElement(file_get_contents($feed));
  if (count($xml->channel->item) == 0)  {
?>
          <p class="tweet">
              Sorry but failed to connect to Twitter for latest updates,
              it is probably busy so try again later.
              Or look <a href="http://www.twitter.com/MindOverMatter8">here</a>
          </p>
<?php
  } else {
      foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item) {
          ?>
          <div class="calendar">
             <div class="calendar-month">
                  <?php echo date("M",strtotime($item->pubDate)) ?>
             </div>
             <div class="calendar-day">
                  <?php echo date("d",strtotime($item->pubDate)) ?>
             </div>
          </div>
          <p>
            <?php echo str_replace("MindOverMatter8:","",$item->description); ?>
          </p>
<?php
      }
  }
} 

?>

Google as added yet another criteria to its algorithms to achieve good search ranking; speed of site. This can only be a good step in the right direction forcing designers and developers to ensure that their sites are optimized as much as possible.

The article has a number of references to some good free tools to evaluate the speed of the site.

See  Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Using site speed in web search ranking.