A little over a year and a half ago, when John Reese announced his BlogRush service, I thought “oh, c**p,” (that word isn’t “CaRP” :-) “one of the big boys beat me to my idea.” At the time, I’d begun working on a site that was going to be similar, but with a few key [...]

2008 has been quite a year. I wasn’t able to finish one big project I’d hoped to complete (I still need to learn to manage distractions better), but the year has seen a number of good developments, both business and personal. Here are some highlights:

My efforts to make “internet marketing guru” contacts that started last [...]

I just uploaded version 2.0 of CaRP/WP (an RSS plugin for WordPress) to my server. CaRP/WP works with CaRP to display RSS feed content, including Amazon.com affiliate feeds and YouTube videos, in the posts and pages of WordPress blogs. This version also enables CaRP/WP to work as a sidebar widget.
 

I may as well say it before someone else does — I’m a greedy S.O.B.! And by “greedy”, I mean that I’d like to pay off credit cards, family members and medical bills and start saving some money.
Why am I hearing Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick singing “I’m a Goofy Goober” in my head? Oh well, [...]

I’ve released two new plugins for CaRP Evolution this week: One for podcasts and one for sorting.
The podcast plugin uses the 1 Pixel Out Audio Player (which is a WordPress plugin, but can be used without WordPress) to display Flash-powered MP3 audio players for each podcast. You can see an example on the podcast plugin’s [...]

A few months ago, I subscribed to the blog of super affiliate and author of The Super Affiliate Handbook Rosalind Gardner’s blog. This morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see a review of my RSS to HTML converter script, CaRP Evolution on it.
Thanks Rosalind, and while I’m at it, thanks Shawn Collins for letting me [...]

Twitter has a widget that you can use to display your latest update in your blog sidebar or elsewhere on your website. But it’s…well, not perfect. I found that it was bigger than necessary for the text it contained, and the empty space didn’t exactly enhance the look of my blog.
So I wrote my own [...]

Magpie and CaRP are two popular RSS parser scripts, both written in PHP, but which is better? I did a quick comparison, and this is what I came up with. Yes, I am the creator of CaRP, so read carefully and decide for yourself whether you can trust me! I’ll try to be as objective [...]

Every once in a while, I hear about another “National Something-Or-Other Day” or “National This-Or-That Month”, and it makes me wonder. Who decides that August 5 will be “National Underwear Day”? (I’m not kidding about that one, by the way!)
Unless there’s some Department of National Days and Months that I’ve never heard about, anybody can [...]

I have 95 extra copies of a CD I created for a conference I attended recently, which I’m making available to the public. The contents include full versions of my scroller script (Tetra), exit hover ad script (ExPop) and viral mailing list mailer (List Mailer GT Pro), along with limited edition versions of my RSS [...]