Tim Ginn's Personal Blog

Well, I’ve added a feature to FIRST Blogs that displays below each entry links to the search results of assorted blog search engines for who’s linking to that entry. Most of the entries will probably return zero results now; but, for some people’s main blog site it’s interesting to take a look at. I find it kind of cool to find out the different results for, as an example, who’s linking to FIRST Blogs.

• Technorati – 4 results
• Feedster – 4 results
• IceRocket – 2 results
• Blogpulse- 1 result
• Bloglines – 0 results

If blog search is your thing, you may be find useful a comparison of blog search engines and another comparison

As always, if anyone has any suggestions for things to add/improve let me know, feedback is always appreciated. Oh, and thanks to Alex, Dave, and Jeff for linking to FIRST Blogs and showing up in the search results (maybe that mention will even get you another link showing up in the search results for your own blog).

For anyone who’s getting started with PHP but doesn’t really get the whole “Object Oriented” thing, I’d suggest taking a look at The Practicality of OO PHP. It does a good job of explaining when it’s good to use objects and when it’s better to avoid them. Anyone who’s even partially curious as to why the next big version of the openFIRST software will be object oriented should take a look at that page (even if you’re not a big fan of reading code the second page outlines advantages and disadvantages in plain English).

For those who are curious I found this through PHPDeveloper.org which tends to have a lot of good PHP resources and does have a nifty feed for syndication.

Well, here’s more of those things that I intend to read but haven’t gotten around to…

Delta Debugging – “From automated testing to automated debugging”

Fundable – “Raise cash for a shared beach house, a group skydiving trip or a communal margarita machine by creating an all-or-nothing fundraising campaign at fundable.org. Set a economic goal–say, $1,000 to rent a house–and ask pals to contribute.”

Yahoo! Unveils RSS search – this could be a handy thing to have around.

Canadian Geocoder + XML API – Nifty, possibly easier than using Multimap (and apparently more digits of precision).

PHP Security Guide – enough said. Definitely something I’ve got to read before releasing the next bunch of ASUS things.

Yahoo! Hot Jobs searches – crawls the web for jobs… that’s kind of cool

Managing for Creativity (found via Slashdot).

Kolab – groupware software.

A Practical Guide to Linux Commands – if it’s good, I might have to recommend it to a few people who ask.

Pro Blogger – Earning milestones? Hmm, maybe there’s some tips?

Securing Your Network: Removing Unwanted Devices

Some stuff on PDO and database abstraction in PHP

Getting rid of trackback spam

AJAX stuff: AJAX Resource updates, Punish your clients less, AJAX and PHP, The HTML_AJAX package,

Getting started with PHP (if it’s good, I know some people who would be interested)