Google Alerts now available in RSS
Google Alerts is now available through an RSS feed instead of having to come through email. If you’re not already using Google Alerts to keep track of news for your sites, now may be a good time to start.
YouTube looks to offering full length TV shows
YouTube will start offering full length TV shows with ads as Google is trying to get more revenue out of the video sharing site.
Full story at NYTimes.com
WordPress: Get custom field function
On several WordPress projects I've needed to get the value of a custom field. Not too difficult using the get_post_meta command, but I wanted a little quicker way. So I now add this little function to the functions.php file on themes I'm working on.
PHP:
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function getMeta($key)
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{
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global $post;
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return get_post_meta($post->ID, $key);
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}
Say you've got a custom field name thisIsMyCustomField, you'd just do this to display the value.
PHP:
JavaScript progress bar indicator
Need a way to show the progress on a long process on your web page? Here's a quick little JavaScript routine that will do it for you.
Google at 10
About a week ago Google celebrated it's 10th birthday. It's amazing in a world where websites come and go on a seemingly weekly basis to see one that's around that long.
Screenshot of Google from 1997
They have put up a page that allows you to search their index from 2001 so you can play with an old index and see how far they've come.