about 3 years ago - 2 comments
In an effort to tidy up various older projects that were never quite completed, I’ve turned my attention to my first PEAR module Services_Technorati. It’s a very simple wrapper around the Technorati API, but the PHP4 version never reached a stable release as it depended on some other packages which were also never stabilised.
So it More >
about 4 years ago - Comments Off
Services_Technorati 0.6.3 has just been released. The main change this time around is that the suite of unit tests are now complete for basic queries. I may add more at a later date to test handling of optional parameters, and more will be needed once Attention.XML support comes online, but for now they do their More >
about 4 years ago - 2 comments
Responding to an article in Slate about Newsmashing, Alan Taylor wrote a post entitled “newsmashing with delicious” talking about the possibility of annotating web pages by posting comments in del.icio.us’ ‘extended’ field. These annotations could then be retrieved by any visitor to the site using a bookmarklet that will retrieve the del.icio.us entries for a More >
about 4 years ago - Comments Off
Services_Technorati 0.6.2alpha is now available through PEAR. Despite the minor version number increment, this version contains quite a few changes. The class no longer instantiates its own cache object, and instead the factory (which should be the default interface to instantiate an object) will accept a pre-existing cache object. For the purposes of forward compatibility, More >
about 4 years ago - Comments Off
Thanks to the proof-reading assistance of Ryan, this latest version of Services_Technorati should now comply with the PEAR coding standards, so I’ve moved it to alpha status, and upped the version number.
Next up will be writing some unit tests for the module. After the fact, I know, but an important step. Getting a CVS or More >
about 4 years ago - Comments Off
A couple of bug reports reminded me that it was time for another release of Services_Technorati. This release fixes a typo and adds some important checks on the return value of $this->_checkOptions()
I’m hoping to finish the last few coding standards issues this week so I can move the package up to alpha status. There’s still More >
about 4 years ago - Comments Off
Voting was complete on my Technorati package a couple of weeks back, but I’ve been waiting to announce it until I was able to upload an initial version to PEAR. The package was approved today, and you can now find version 0.5.5 at the PEAR website.
It’s currently set to ‘devel’ so to install it from More >
about 4 years ago - Comments Off
I just made another round of changes to Services_Technorati. As well as a few maintenance tasks, I made it more explicit that the caching is optional, added a factory method, and worked in support for the new TopTags API call.
The Attention.XML support is still not working as hoped. Niall Kennedy (Technorati’s Community Manager) assures me More >
about 5 years ago - Comments Off
Jason DeFilippo posts that Technorati have now added a ‘related tags’ feature. If you search for, say webservices you’ll see related entries for ‘web’, ‘google’, ’soap’, ‘blogs’ and ‘links’. Presumably the relationships are drawn by monitoring where tags have appeared together in pages.
This is a big step forward in technorati’s support for folksonomies. The usefulness More >
about 5 years ago - Comments Off
Following a request on the developers email list, technorati have added support for a new query: keyInfo. Each Technorati API key is limited to 500 requests per day and this query will allow you to check a given key’s status without using up any of that allocation.
I’ve upgraded Services_Technorati to support that and upped the More >