I’ve just posted a history of the development of CaRP Evolution, running from the creation of my first free PHP RSS parser up through the additions of CaRP Koi and Evolution, and the version 4 upgrade, with a very small hint at the future (it’s getting renamed, but the new name isn’t going to be [...]

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 [...]