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RSS and SimplePie makes for PHP developer heaven
This is definitely one for the developers amongst you, but if you're developing an application in PHP and need to handle the reading of RSS feeds, SimplePie is a god-send. Some folks will point you in the direction of PHP5's built-in SimpleXML module, however it's highly intolerant of malformed XML - and certainly doesn't have any extra features such as caching that you get with SimplePie.If you're looking for an easy way to work with RSS or Atom feeds, SimplePie is both easy to implement - and thoroughly documented to help you build on it. I've used SimplePie in a number of projects in the last year - from multi-feed collation to simply showing a list of recent blog posts in a sidebar - and every time I use it I find myself grinning like a cheshire cat at the amount of time it has saved me.
SimplePie is available under the BSD licence for your hacking pleasure, and the developers are currently seeking feedback for version 2!
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Rarst said 3:37PM on 10-10-2009
Developers had currently completely stopped development and aren't looking for anything anymore.
I like SimplePie myself but if left to code rot it might be best to sit and wait instead of starting with it at moment.
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Ryan McCue said 8:02PM on 10-10-2009
I'm continuing development on SimplePie on GitHub, and I'm planning on continuing for a long time. :)
I'm also going to be taking over the domain name and hosting too, so SimplePie is definitely not going to rot.