Make separate RSS feeds for each category in ExpressionEngine

It’s time to talk about ExpressionEngine (EE) for a change. If any of you can speak Polish, I recommend subscribing to EExpression.pl, a nice new site that talks about EE in my native language. Now, to the subject — let’s assume for a moment that you use the EE feed templates. If you are running a daily news site, there’s probably loads of different categories you are broadcasting. It would be nice if your readers could subscribe just to the topic they are interested in (on CNN you can), but without the need for you to create tons of separate feed templates. See how EE can do this task for you.

Final wrap-up of The 140 Characters Webapp Challenge!

The 140 Characters Webapp Challenge is now over! If by chance you don’t know what it was, read this article at Mashable or see the original post at f055. It was great 2 weeks, everybody. You showed some awesome skills, and really raised to The Challenge! Kudos :) And thanks for making it all so exciting for all of us!

I have wrapped up all of your apps into this long, 32 apps list, which all are indeed functional and below 140 chars! (plus 4 that are interesting, but too long) You can VOTE for ONE of your favorite apps. And yes, the voting script is 140 chars too!

Check the VOTING results!

7 days of The 140 Characters Webapp Challenge - wrapped up!

You may have hard of The 140 Characters Webapp Challenge. It made quite a buzz and I’m happy to report that the response was a pleasant surprise to me. Here’s a report from the middle of The Challenge — there’s still a week left!

Some statistics: 19 coders (including me), who have produced 28 webapps in PHP, Perl, Ruby and JS — all but 4 are less than 140 characters of code! Impressive work so far, everybody! Thanks! I managed to wrap up all your work into one list.

The 140 character webapp challenge!

How many interesting webapps can you code in one Twitter message? I have one — a micro-twitter. I want to see many!

Back at Twitter I read this message on 222 character Wikis, by Arun Shroff. I thought — why not — and replied with a challenge: Make a 140 chars webapp in 2 weeks! Whatever language, library or module included, as long as it’s standard. I made an example micro-twitter, described later in the post. If you think you can do better — I dare you. You’ve got 2 weeks again. Post your webapp here in the comments! (complete code, link or anything such that we can see it at its best)

UPDATE! 32 WebApps under 140 Characters — Finale of The Challenge wrapped up!

24 WebApps under 140 Characters — 7 days of The Challenge wrapped up!
Test my example micro-twitter online
Download the micro-twitter source code

#Favlogo roundup number 1

A while ago on Twitter I started to post links to exceptional logotypes, day by day. You can monitor my picks by searching the #favlogo hashtag or simply by following me. After about two weeks, it’s time to make a roundup and select my favorite five! Let’s start.

A blog must evolve! 6 ways to improve it

I made some layout changes over the weekend, intended to make this blog more readable for new users. I think the new arrangement is better to navigate, and contents of the website are easier to find. I included some social bookmarking elements (Go, Digg this post! Thanks!). All this sums up to this article on how to improve a blog, step by step.

And the Spam Design Award goes to (sponsored by Viagra, Levitra and Cialis)

Spam is the cancer of the Internet — and I am repeating myself. I get almost 100 spam comments every week, but thanks to Akismet plug-in I described before, I don’t have to deal with them by hand. But today in my mailbox I’ve found an odd little one, which really caught my eye. This will be the first design post on the blog, but I mean, just look at it — for a moment I thought it was something from Apple Inc.

5 tips on being smart with HTML and CSS

Remember — always code your site in the most simple and flexible manner. Once you’ve designed and developed your website, and put it online, you can be quite proud of yourself. However, when you come back later to make some changes or improvements, you can discover, to your surprise, that you would spend less time making it all over again, than just updating the current code. Either way, it’s just waste of time and brains. Here are some small tips that may save you lots of time in the future.

Read luggage conditions before flights - you may be positively surprised

In an era of cheap flights over Europe, the one not cheap thing about them is the luggage transport. In most cases, you are entitled to just one piece of hand baggage, and they really mean one — if you wish to have a purse with you, then you can’t have anything else. Also, check-in baggage is normally restricted to 20 KG, and you have to pay for each piece, plus the overweight. However, before your departure, always read the fine print about luggage conditions, as sometimes the airlines (both cheap and regular) have interesting rules.

Real “nofollow” links using simple JavaScript

Today’s web is all about being in the search engines, i said that before. And since Google is the biggest search engine, I can safely say that today’s web is all about being in Google — which then again all breaks down to having a high PageRank (PR). It’s magically calculated basing on inbound and outbound links to the given site. And often having bad links brings your PR down. That’s why it’s good practice to use nofollow. But I will show you how to make it even more No.