A number of people (myself included) have suddenly started having problems with cURL errors when trying to fetch certain feeds. There weren’t any changes to the cURL code between RC1 and RC2, so we’re trying to track down where the issue is coming from. Until then, you can force SimplePie to use fsockopen() instead of cURL by setting the force_fsockopen(true) configuration option.
We’ll post an update as soon as we track down the source of the issue.
Posted by Ryan Parman at 1:45 pm. Comments (0)
For those who have been using SimpleReader Mobile (or simply those who are looking for an iPhone, PSP, Palm, Blackberry, or phone-friendly web-based feed reader), we’ve given it a new facelift! Most devices (like phones, and Blackberrys and such) get a clean, fast, clutter-free view of their favorite feeds. For devices that can handle CSS (e.g. iPhone, PSP, Opera Mini), we’ve got the same thing except that it looks a lot nicer on these devices.
Also for the first time, SimpleReader Mobile looks pretty good on desktop browsers as well. If you’ve got a mobile device with an internet data plan or WiFi support, give SimpleReader Mobile a try. Also, for devices that support Flash playback (e.g. PSP), we’ll soon be adding the ability to playback MP3 and FLV enclosures!
SimpleReader Mobile is powered by the latest version of SimplePie, which means that it supports all the cool, gee-whiz stuff like Internationalized Domain Names, solid Atom 1.0 support, and Feed Autodiscovery. Can your other mobile feed reader do that? 🙂
Posted by Ryan Parman at 6:29 pm. Comments (2)
After being made aware of a few issues with our first release candidate, we’ve fixed a number of bugs and we now offer the second release candidate of SimplePie 1.0!
We launched SimplePie 1.0 RC1 last weekend with relatively high hopes. But we were completely blown away to see that since last weekend, RC1 had 971 downloads the first week alone! That is almost 5 times the rate of Beta 3’s first week! Thanks so much! We had over 11,000 downloads of Beta 3 all-together, so there are still a number of people who have not yet upgraded, but we hope that time is fast approaching. 😉
Go ahead and grab RC2 to fix some minor issues with RC1. RC3 is in the pipe for next weekend, and will (hopefully) be our last release candidate before becoming 1.0 final.
Posted by Ryan Parman at 10:43 pm. Comments (0)