Lately I'm interested in RSS and I'm considering to prioritize and make it the first thing on my todo list.
RSS
(Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the latest news from Web sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary."
RSS is a family of XML file formats and the information is delivered as an XML file called RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel.
Drop me a line if you know any good PHP RSS parser/reader/aggregator. I'm also interested in RSS feed generator in PHP. I wanna learn more about RSS feed and put up a feed on my site.
Some feed parsers that "looks" good among others:
Magpie RSS - packed with hell lots of features and functions, used by alot of RSS software
I've added weather updates on mysite, you can find them in top most of my page, on the bottom most of left navigation menu and also here for detailed info.
The latest weather datas are provided by Weather.com .
If you interested in building your own weather reports (web), check out here http://www.w3.weather.com/services/xmloap.html. It's a free registration and Weather.com only requires your email address. After then you can use the partner ID and license key provided and get access to the latest weather data, via xml feed ;)
I can "guess" why illegal mp3 sharing is causing so much havoc.. If you still don't have a clear picture why some people/companies/authorities having urge against illegal mp3 sharing/downloading, look below for yourself...
Look carefully <_<
PS: Hmm.. don't ask me where I get this picture... I just wanna test the new bbcode tag [ center ] and the new attribute for [ img ] ... hehe
*Update 2006.09.18*
No longer using the [center] tag to center image. Right now the latest [img] is able to handle this kind of position.
It's been a while since I update my blog. Router got stroke by lightning during the storm. At first my housemate and me thought that the router is working fine, then later we found out that one port is damaged, and eventually the whole router broke down. In short, I lost internet connection until we got a new router. The good thing is, all the computers, notebooks, cable modem and anything that is plugged to the wall socket survived.
Currently the site's content is HTML 4.01 Transitional compliance, it works fine until I realize doing a <link> thing inside the header breaks everything... one example is:
It doesn't belongs to HTML 4.01...So, Im thinking of changing to XHTML, kinda headache though because I need to search and replace a lot of html tags like <br> to <br /> <input> to <input /> inside my templates...tons of them...omg...gayness...I should standardize my code in the beginning...
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated. It is an open standard created by the World Wide Web Consortium, which is also responsible for standards like HTML and XHTML.
Want to know more ? Visit World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) or Wikipedia.
SVG Example
It looks pretty similar like flash animation at first look but it's not the same thing. You can view the source code here. You're still using Internet Explorer or you can't see anything ? Change to FREE + FASTEST Opera web browser now ! If you're unaware about "Opera Eliminates Ad Banner and Licensing Fee" thing, read here. The samples are borrowed from Opera and other website.
Native Support
Below are some browsers that supports SVG natively , without the need of external plug-in:
Opera web browser (since 8.0 Beta 3)
Mozilla Firefox web browser (since 1.5 Beta 1)
As well as KDE' Konqueror, Apple's Safari web browser etc.
The commenting system is up and running. It's built with some simple abuse protection mechanism. Others update includes updates to the blogging system and page's template. I've also changed the website's font size to smaller ones to save spaces. One new thing I've learned when I'm designing the commenting system - email address encryption/obfuscation.
Protecting your email adress ? Why ?
Posting your email address on a website is a sure-fire way to get an Inbox full of unsolicited email advertisements. In short, these sites are a spammer's paradise. "Professional" spammers uses spambot to get the job done.
Spambots are small spider programs let loose on the Internet by spammers to harvest email addresses on the web pages like newsgroup postings, discussion boards, guestbooks, special-interest group (SIG) postings, and chat-room conversations etc. They do not obey the robots.txt rule and request webpages like a beggar who has not eaten for months, there by exhausting megabytes of bandwidth of your web server within minutes. Their intention is to just get all email addresses, if found, on the webpages. Spambots can disguise themselves in many ways. Since they are programmed by the humans (SPAMMERs), they come in different flavors. It is very hard to keep track all of them. But we can prevent them harvesting emails by installing some scripts on the server.
There are a number of methods web site developers are currently employing in attempt to disguise email address links from email harvesting spam bots. These include techniques such as replacing characters in the address with numeric entities, writing the addresses with JavaScript, and writing addresses in plain English. Because many of these are coded directly into a web page using HTML and related technologies, they each depend on the inability of user-agents to properly 'decode' the links.
There seems to be a lot of blind-faith in using these methods, and assumptions that email harvesting bots will not be designed to distinguish anything but a simple mailto:user@example.com style link. Perhaps there is not currently a need to design smarter bots since the majority of web sites do not employ any methods for hiding email addresses. Many modern programming languages include the tools to develop a simple user-agent that could be used to collect email addresses in a matter of hours. A simple bot just needs to make an HTTP request for a web page, scrape it for email addresses, and then continue to make requests for any URLs linked to the original page.
The manner in which an email bot discovers an email address or email link can be wide-ranging, from a simple match on an email address (user@example.com) or mailto link (mailto:user@example.com) to more advanced rendering of HTML entities and JavaScript to find hidden addresses. I believe that if an email harvesting user-agent were to be built on top of a modern web browsing rendering engine, if this hasn't happened already, it would be capable of discovering just about any email address no matter how it is hidden.
Considering the fact of this, every single email address in the comments section(and all pages) will be spam protected to a certain extent. Simple spambots won't be able to decode it but it's weak against smarter/advance bots. Besides that, there is no way to stop a HUMAN spammer. He/she is able to read the email address just like me and you. There is no 100% secure way to publish your personal email address on the Internet. You're at risk at the moment you decide to give out your email adress.
