You Can Call Me Al

CSS Remix Hacked, originally uploaded by BigAlUK.

It seems CSS remix (a showcase of nice CSS design) has been hacked. Not good.

Just stumbled upon Dan Vega's article in the fullasagoog feed about how to remove the "lastXdays" check on entries from BlogCFC.

Been meaning to look into this for a while, and seeing Dan's article reminded me. Incredibly easy in the end, just changed one tiny variable... now I can go back to being lazy without having to worry about the dreaded "No more posts" message :)

I've been playing with eBay's shopping API to develop a nice list of products I'm currently selling to slip into my newly designed blog (coming soon).

Anyway, ebay passes back a nice little XML doc as usual which I could parse and dump and see it in all it's glory, but any type of xmlSearch() (apart from a wildcard *) returned an empty array. This has driven me mental for the last couple of hours. I had a very similiar piece of code which I did with flickr's API a while ago and it matched identically. I searched around a bit and I was finding was that the xml nodes are case sensitive, I knew that, and tried it. Nothing. Then finally, to help lower my blood pressure, I found a TechNote on Adobe's site.

It seems defined namespaces (which eBay's xml has, but flickr's didn't) require a different approach. Because the dump wasn't showing any prefixes (as none were defined) I couldn't see the problem. But the technote explains you need to add the namespace as if it were empty, so the xPath would be //:nodeName (returns all nodes with nodeName). Spot the little colon. That's it, fixed.

I'm not sure if this is a well known thing, but I know it wasted a couple of hours of my life.

Been so long since i posted I've got none on the homepage. Bit poor really. Must get round to designing this site and writing up a tutorial or two for playing with Photoshop CS3.