Ping.fm Custom URL Functionality

Ping.fm is a message posting service that allows you to post to several social networking sites very easily (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.).  It also allows you to post to several networks at the same time, and there are various desktop and mobile apps currently available that use this service.  Recently I discovered that it also has custom URL functionality, which allows you to direct...

Status Updates in MySQL

I have been working on a website that required a script that imitates the status updates a la Twitter, Facebook status, MySpace status, etc. This post explains how I programmed that part of the website. First, as part of a backend CMS, I created a form that submits the status update via PHP to a MySQL database. Then I wrote a PHP class that includes a method to query the database for the most...