Today is Blog Action Day well here in the UK it is drawing to a close. I was hoping to post a few hours ago but was busy. So excuse me, and as it is late sorry if I make any mistakes.
Lately in the UK every news broadcast whether it be at 1Pm or 10PM there always seems to be something on the news about climate, and how WE are changing it.
Just today in-fact I watched the news and it showed a report about the how the shipping lanes in the Artic have been able to be used this year as all the ice had melted, which hasn’t happened before. Also a report about the 1987’s Great Storm here in the UK.
Sitting here right now in the Isle Of Wight I can hear the wind blowing outside, with 25 minutes left of blog action day to write this post and get it up to be 1 of the many today posting to try and get something done about how WE are changing this amazing place we call home. We’re not the only ones who have to live here, and US as individuals are changing the planet for everything.
On a personal note, now when i’m doing sketches etc, I throw my paper into a bin that gets emptied into the paper recycling box we have back in Solihull. Just doing a bit can help, but doing nothing isn’t an option if we want to live on this world like we do now. If we keep littering, polluting like we do now the world will change forever.
Just take a few minutes right now and think about what kind of world you want your children/relatives etc… growing up in.
Lately I have been developing inBlogs, a site which aggregates posts from 148 (and growing) web-related blogs into one place. These are then split into pages. In this post what SimplePie is, more detailed posts will follow.
What exactly is SimplePie?
The script allows you to parse RSS and ATOM feeds in PHP, which allows you to show posts from a feed or several feeds in a page or menu on your website. Or like me develop a whole site featured around the parsed feeds.
SimplePie for one feed.
Parsing one feed can be helpful to some people. A demo of this can be seen here. Using this you can create simple menu’s to add to your site or blog to show the latest posts from a blog or news section on a website. Say you have a technology blog you might want to add a menu that shows the last 5 posts from engadget.
SimplePie for multiple feeds.
If you want to have several feeds to be parsed together then SimplePie Multifeeds is for you. It allows you to parse as many feeds as you like into one all sorted by date. This is what is used on inBlogs. Using this you can create menu’s or pages or even plugins that aggregate posts from feeds. On Macommand a Wordpress SimplePie plugin is used to automatically create posts from several feeds. Meaning I don’t have to update the site manually. This can be very helpful if your a lazy blogger like me.
This post is just the first post about SimplePie. This may get updated and posted again to add more details. I will be doing several tutorials about SimplePie over the next coming weeks.
Well as most of you know by now I have been using e107 for quite a few years and will continue to do so. A year or so back I was releasing quite alot of themes. I am happy to announce that once again I will be releasing themes on a semi regular basis, dependent on my ever changing work status.
The firs batch will consist of 15 themes, more details of which will come soon. These themes will not be out this month and previews as well as another announcement will be made in November. As you can imagine these themes will take time to make, I will be designing these themes then coding them. I am hoping I can have the 15 themes finished for a deadline I have set.
As well as this I am hoping to release the aggregator plugin around the same time as the themes. While continuing my book I have been writing the last few weeks.
Wish me luck.