If you want to display a number of photos on your website, jQuery Infinite Carousel is a very good option. This carousel works really well when you have a list of images on your page, but it threw up a number of problems when calling images dynamically on page load (I.e. your latest Flickr Photostream or set). (more…)

I recently wrote a tutorial on using SimplePie to parse your Google Reader shared items Atom feed (or any other RSS/Atom feed for that matter). However, after implementing it on this site (in the sidebar here) and testing it for a month-or-so, I’ve found page load times are very slow whenever SimplePie parses the feed and updates the cache. I had it set to request an update every hour (3600 seconds), which in hindsight is probably too often for my needs. (more…)

I recently wrote a post about using MagpieRSS to parse my Google Reader shared items atom feed. However, I have come across various bugs in the last few days – from extremely slow page loads, out-of-date cache files and character encoding issues. (more…)