wp-weather updated to support PHP4
Posted by Matt Brotherson in announcements on July 31, 2007
I’ve updated wp-weather to support PHP4 as the debate on wp-hackers email list indicates that PHP4 support will not be dropped any time soon. Credits to Ingo Schramm for the porting of SimpXml to php4.
real time web stats on your desktop with reinvigorate
Posted by Matt Brotherson in site on June 12, 2007
Reinvigorate released a real time stats monitoring application dubbed Snoop. The program receives feed from your account to let you know what activity is occurring on your website. They’ve set up several javascript variables to allow for certain event triggering as well. Since my sites aren’t exactly high traffic sites, I’m not sure if that is a good thing or not for this tool. I think it is still a cool concept.
Adobe Flex going open source
Posted by Matt Brotherson in asides on April 26, 2007
An interesting new player comes to the open source world – Adobe Flex. Flex seems to be a powerful choice for building the new buzzword Rich Internet Applications. I’m still unsold on having an entire application be one giant flash movie but time will tell. It does have some powerful capabilities especially in the enterprise dashboard realm. MicroStrategy has released some new flex based functionality to allow developers to build dashboards on top of normal business intelligence reports served by MicroStrategy’s BI platform. I think Flex is a good fit in this arena as it is able to aggregate many reports into a sleek and sexy dashboard. Yet, I’m still struggling to see where this technology will make its place in the traditional web application environment. It is very good for displaying data to a user and providing drill down and aggregation, but I can’t see it replacing the standard forms based approach to transactional based web systems.
A nice article is here at Ryan Stewart’s Universal Desktop.
Hat tip to Nick for sending me the article.
reinvigorate
Posted by Matt Brotherson in site on April 24, 2007
After seeing some buzz on the net about reinvigorate, I decided to sign up for a beta account. There must be a number of applicants as it was several weeks before I received an invitation. I run both google analytics and reinvigorate and find the combination to be quite pleasing. Reinvigorate’s UI is a bit easier to navigate and get to the information you are after while google is…well google!
Just like analytics, reinvigorate allows for tracking of multiple sites (accounts) through a single login. Additionally, they allow creation of custom categories for placing your sites. A neat feature is the ability to ‘name track’ users. With the wp-reinvigorate plugin, you can track logged in users and the content they view as well. I’ve ported over a piece of their code for Coppermine as well.
wp-weather widget 1000 downloads
Posted by Matt Brotherson in announcements on April 12, 2007
My widget plugin has reached over 1000 downloads since its release a month and a half ago. This figure doesn’t include the downloads from wordpress.org — just directly from this site. That’s impressive to me.
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