When you’ve had a homepage online since 1995, you have to deal with a lot of problems and unsavoury individuals. This post discusses some of the difficulties you’ll encounter while blogging and the solutions I employed to solve or at least mitigate the following common problems…

This week has not been a good one for my various electronic devices on which I rely to keep me entertained, informed, even employed…

Although I had to overcome a lot of difficulties with Amazon’s API I never gave up and completed another mashup. Alas as time as passed many APIs have become more restrictive so a decade later I can’t really recommend using the code I’ve written…

Although I’m not happy with the track listing portion. I wanted to get previews of the songs on the album and I thought I could get this information from Amazon Product API, I even found an example of what needed to be done, but I couldn’t get it to work. I asked for some help on their forum, but no one replied. Eventually I moved on to using a variety of other APIs…

As someone who has written and given away way too much PHP code, there are definitely bigger priorities than ensuring your open source PHP code works perfectly, forever. People have lives offline. They have commitments. There is a need to make a living so although I’m still not the biggest PHP fan if I have time I plan to update my mashup codebase but my number one priority as always is finding a well paying job…