Tech
More Bugs In Podcasts App For iOS
The Podcasts app for Apple’s iOS really stinks. Many of the bugs in the app are well known and documented on other websites and blogs but there’s one I came across today that I hadn’t seen anywhere else. I was listening to a podcast on my way into work. When I got to the office […]
MLB Standings Plugin Updated
When I first created the MLB Standings plugin I had assumed that most blogs to use it would be fan blogs of specific baseball teams. The plugin shows the standings of only one division because such sites will want to display the standings of the division that their team is part of. Another thing such […]
MLB Standings Plugin Now Available
A few years ago I was looking for a plugin to display the standings of a Major League Baseball (MLB) division on one of my other blogs. I came across only one plugin for this and luckily it worked very well. Unfortunately it depended on something on MLB’s site which was changed just prior to […]
Updating A Twitter Profile Image With PHP
I had an interesting issue come up recently when working on improvements to a Twitter bot I hadn’t used in a while but wanted to start using again. The new feature I was trying to add was to update the profile picture of the Twitter account the bot used based on a certain criteria determined […]
The Difference Between Misusing And Exploiting Personal Information
There’s constant talk in the “internet space” about what can and can’t be done with personal information collected from users. The most benevolent way this data is used is when the data is mined for certain demographics and the demographics, not the data itself, is used to sell advertising on the web presence of the […]