In episode #64 of the Loose Ends Show podcast, Tom Sidock talks about WordPress and says that “SimplePie is awesome!”
The segment on WordPress begins around 10:05, while the SimplePie Plugin for WordPress is mentioned at 22:30 and is talked about for around 45 seconds or so.
The entire WordPress segment is good (didn’t listen to the rest of the podcast), so check it out!
Posted by Ryan Parman at 1:17 pm. Comments (1)
A month or two ago, we ran a poll with three options: drop get_ from method names, add set_ to others, or leave it as is. The result was overwhelmingly for the second option, adding set_.
One month ago, I changed the methods that directly interact with the SimplePie class. This proved controversial, despite the fact people writing PHP really should know that development code should not be relied upon, knowing that it may not work, or break backwards compatibility without warning. There’s been various discussions arguments about whether other verbs (such as enable) should be used in some of the method names. Anyone got any thoughts?
The second issue is to do with SimplePie_Item::get_description(). If we’re to have two methods – one that gets the description, and another that gets the content (or description, if that doesn’t exist), what should the methods be called? I’m in favour of the description method being SimplePie_Item::get_description() and the content method being SimplePie_Item::get_content(), thereby breaking backwards compatibility; however, I’m open to suggestions.
Lastly, anyone interested in mailing lists, for either announcements or support?
Posted by Geoffrey Sneddon at 1:58 pm. Comments (5)
For those of you interested in statistical data for SimplePie.org (which is probably only me), I was digging through my stats this morning, and learned the following:
Firefox users are nearly triple the number of IE users, and the Mac-only Safari is nearly at 10%! Additionally, I’m surprised that there are even 1.1% of people still on the old Mozilla browser.
Mac and Linux users are roughly 25% of all visits! Windows users are still the most prevalent, but with not nearly the lead that have in other markets.
98% of all SimplePie users have a screen resolution of 1024×768 or larger, but 62% of those are either at 1024×768 or 1280×1024. That means that SimplePie’s website will have to stay 1024×768-friendly for quite some time to come.
If this in any indicator of the Flash usage (which it probably is), over 99% of all SimplePie users will be able to support the new software we’re using to support Flash Video (.flv) and MP3’s on the trunk (to be 1.0). Cool!
Since we launched SimplePie.org with our Preview Release last January:
That is all. 🙂
Posted by Ryan Parman at 11:38 am. Comments (1)