Monthly Archives: December 2009

This was just way too simple and I had to share. (or keep it for later use.) <ul><?php $post = new SimpleXMLElement(‘XXX_URL_HERE_XXX’,NULL,TRUE); for ($i=0; $i<5; $i++) { print(‘<li><a href=”‘. $post->channel->item[$i]->link . ‘”>’ . $post->channel->item[$i]->title . ‘</a></li>’); } ?></ul> Link to SimpleXMLElement page on php.net. For trouble shooting, try var_dump($post->channel); etc. (Disclaimer: I will not be [...]

I’ve been blogging and tweeting way too much about the baseball stuff (which is on my mind constantly) but here is a posting about “work” stuff that I do. There I came across 28 Rich Data Visualization Tools posting on the web, and I have not looked at all the links, but they look awesome. [...]

Memo while installing WordPress in Japanese In order to localize wordpress, you need ja.mo file. Japanese WordPress team has it available. Create the wp-includes/languages (I had to create that folder) and put it in. Then edit wp-config.php, define (’WPLANG’, ”); to define (’WPLANG’, ‘ja’); A way to display Japanese date and time in php: Y? [...]