Go for phar
Since PHP 5.3 it is possible to run PHP programs from within so called 'phar' archives. Half a year ago I started writing a command line tool in C to pack and unpack files from these archives.
4 days ago Google made their new programming language 'Go' open source.
RSS Feed and other features
This blog is now available as Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0 feed. I also extended the framework so that I can publish project related blog posts which are available on seperate feeds.
Tortuga Island
I'd like to announce the start of a new project named 'Tortuga Island'. Tortuga Island is a browser game in an early development state. 'Tortuga' or 'Île de la Tortue' (french) is a small island belonging to Haiti. In the 17th century the island was shared between france and spain. Meanwhile buccaneers (pirates) were allowed to build their base on the island.
The game will take place in the 17th century. The player slips into the role of a pirate located on the island of tortuga. This project is still in a planning stadium, so that any more detailed information is not available yet.
GeekCast
Recently I decided to create an screencast for an article I was writing. After a while I was thinking about how I would publish the screencast. I wanted to keep track of views, being able to easily include my video on other pages. The code I was writing was directly extending the existing framework on geekmonkey.org. As there were so many things to implement I moved all the code out of the framework and into a new project now named "GeekCast".
LiveSearch Analysis
For a few months now Microsoft's Live Search is leaving referral urls with one keyword in logfiles around the world. Such automated queries always include the string "form=QBHP" and are usually coming directly after the normal crawl bot. After a while watching this happen I noticed that the given keyword always has a relation to the page visited by the bot and is most likely one of the top keyword for this page. Today I started writing a small PHP script which logs the submitted keywords in a SQLite database and lists them for analysis. The script does a reverse lookup to confirm the identity of the bot. It can be downloaded here. Installation instructions included.
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