SimplePie seems as robust as MagPie and it’s got some nicer features. It’s significantly slower when pulling from the net, but it is insanely fast when coming from the cache. Unfortunately, you’re mostly pulling from the net.
check it out:
http://www.feedalicious.net/tools/phprsscomparator/
There are three rules that everyone knows.
Never Get Out of the Boat
Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia
Never upgrade your Apple OS if things are working fine.
I’d been on 10.4.8 on my main get-work-done machine for a while. There was no reason to upgrade. It was solid. I had no problems. Also, 10.4.9 [...]
For a little project I’m working on, I needed to do some RSS parsing. I quickly found lastRSS, magpie and the Pear XML Feed Parsing Library. I wasn’t sure which was the best, so I decided to do a little apples to apples to apples comparison. I created the PHP RSS Comparator to help me [...]
I feel super geeky for posting this, but is wonderful
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
Far more veteran air traffic controllers than the government expected have retired since the Bush administration imposed a contract on their union on Labor Day 2006, new data show.While veteran controllers bail out in unprecedented numbers and air travelers experience record delays, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a series of all-is-well pronouncements about [...]
Apple - Hot News
Third Party Applications on the iPhone
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for [...]
It looks like I5 is the seam… It kind of messes with my head just looking at this picture…
From Anthony Bourdain’s Blog
If you’ve been performing very well as a novice sous-chef at Daniel Boulud’s Restaurant Daniel, and then, suddenly, make a horrible botch of even one Saturday night, you’re probably not going to be around next Saturday. Restaurants of Daniels caliber aren’t allowed to have a “bad night”. The food at a “top” [...]
Old Ballard’s new hero digs in as retail project envelops her home
Karen Ducey / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
I used to drive by this house every day. Before they were building condos on the site, there was some warehouse that complete surrounded her and was later abandoned. You’d see her out front sweeping the sidewalk as the warehouse [...]
I applaud you, Radiohead, for doing such a forward-thinking experiment with your distribution for InRainbows. However, you’ve unfortunately made sure that any data you receive from this experiment will be useless. Why? Well, because your website and ordering process are HORRIBLE. I had so many problems getting your website to work that I almost gave [...]
