If you haven’t noticed already, I added some extra RSS feeds to the side bar – one for my links and one for Flickr (although I really don’t use Flickr that much but that’s another post and an ongoing dilemma of mine).
I added a link to my del.icio.us RSS feed, something that I haven’t used until I saw my friend Ben Bashford was using it, and I usually copy whatever he’s doing. But after adding a few links, I realised that I think del.icio.us really sucks. It’s ugly, and for what I want to use it for, it’s unusable. See, I don’t care if 2,345,325 people are linking to the same page on the internet as me. That doesn’t mean I’m going to find something interesting. As I write this, the second most popular link on del.icio.us is on linux.com, and guess what, I don’t even use Linux.
So, my wonderful boyfriend coded me a little RSS feed to use with my current (somewhat large) links database. This is only an interim solution, however.
I’ve been using APB Bookmarks for sometime now, but aside from the fact that it’s dead software and isn’t being maintained any more, it’s fugly. I mean, just look at it. In light of this (and thinking about it for at least a year), I’ve decided to learn PHP and to attempt to code my own little app. Tonight, with the help of my PHP-ninja boyfriend, I created a login page that checks a table in a MySQL database for the right info. It’s a start, right?
Good luck to me!