March 28, 2009, 2:26 am
I think it’s mostly flown under the radar, but one of my smaller projects is a class called DomQuery that is built on top of DOM and the SPL ArrayObject. The functionality is provides is somewhat similar to jQuery, but it’s different in that it does so programmatically through the API rather than using an expression parser.
This post is mainly to inform anyone who might be interested that I’ve moved the project from its old home at Assembla to a new repository on github. I’ve been enjoying my use of git for version control of other projects and it seems an appropriate place to house DomQuery to allow other people to play with it. I haven’t had time recently to make many updates, but hope that will change in the short term. If you haven’t used DomQuery, why not try it today?
March 25, 2009, 9:09 pm
This is just a quick post, mostly a "note to self" so I don’t forget how to do this. If you were curious, it was the result of indirect inspiration from these Become a Bash Ninja slides.
If you’re running Ubuntu 8.10 as your desktop OS, have vim installed, and use it for PHP development, you may not be aware that the PHP syntax file that comes bundled with vim is a bit outdated. There’s a fairly simple way to update it, though. In fact, it’s doable with two simple commands from Terminal.
cd /usr/share/vim71;
wget -O - http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=8651 | sudo tar -zxv
March 5, 2009, 2:23 pm
Hard to believe it’s been that long, but two months ago I mentioned the free webcast series sponsored by Adobe and leading up to php|tek 2009.
I’ve posted the slides from my webcast on February 27. If you weren’t able to make it, I gave an introduction to what web scraping is, basic details of the HTTP protocol, available resources for developing web scraping applications, and best practices. I know there are plans to make the audio from the webcast and I will update this post with a link once it becomes available.
If the slides and audio aren’t enough for you, I will in all likelihood be giving an extended version of the presentation that includes both retrieval and analysis as part of the Unconference event at php|tek. Look forward to seeing you there!
