I have been spending some of my spare time updating my web coding skills (when not distracted learning to code my iPhone). My main outlets so far are a handful of website, because I don’t already have this one to ignore ;)

My latest mini-project has been to create mini-feeds from the content on tappick.com and flixflip.com (because some day I will make an api for one or both sites). Tappick and Flixflip, as well as mike-barker.com, are built on WordPress so there are many helpful plug-ins, including the JSON API which has enabled a simple JSON based feed. So now in the footer I have two mini-feeds with the latest news from Tappick and top movies from iTunes courtesy of Flixflip (and, well iTunes of course). The Flixflip movie feed is *hopefully* geo-specific for most English speaking countries, therefore the feed you see should be for your local iTunes store.

Naturally when it comes to experimenting, something breaks just as I introduce a new feature. And of course bugs appear, in my code!, just before bedtime when I don’t have time to fix them. Don’t you just hate going to bed with bugs remaining in you code? Luckily tonight I fixed one problem I created.