http://www.robertbolton.com A lot to do about nothing Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:49:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Exporting your Feeds out of Outlook Select the file menu from Outlook Choose Import and Export Choose Export RSS Feeds to an OPML file Click Next Choose the RSS feeds you wish to export, or hit Select All to select all the feeds. Click Next Click the Browse button to find the location where you want to ... http://www.robertbolton.com/export-rss-feeds-from-outlook-and-import-into-google-reader I have been working with a couple of web services lately (see prior post on Zend framework and Gdata), and upon deploying my application found out the technorati part of my site wasn’t working. I ran my unit tests, and multiple errors occured, saying the script wasn’t able to connect ... http://www.robertbolton.com/technorati-api-down I have been messing around with the different Zend_Service components available in the framework, and in general am very pleased with the ease of use and functionality. However, Zend_Gdata seems somewhat complicated. Now I must admit that I have not spent much time with classes, and I am sure the ... http://www.robertbolton.com/zend-framework-and-youtube-api An article talks about the opening up of Yahoo, both its embrace of open source and the company’s desire to open its platform to 3rd party developers. I have seen a lot of good things come out of Yahoo in the past couple of years, from Yahoo Site Explorer to ... http://www.robertbolton.com/yahoo-opens-up I finagled access to Microsoft’s AdCenter Analytics and spent an hour going through the UI and checking out the functionality. It contains the standard functionality found in free analytics package, with the ability to track marketing campaigns and report on revenue. You can set up goals in case reporting on ... http://www.robertbolton.com/adcenter-analytics I signed up for the Manning early access program for Zend Framework in Action to get information on the ACL functionality in the framework and the book provided some useful examples. I was a bit underwhelmed by the content in the first release, but I guess that is to be ... http://www.robertbolton.com/book-review-zend-framework-in-action Over on usability guru Jakon Nielsen’s blog, he throws out a statistic that 24% of users in a recent study couldn’t navigate to google to perform a search - they either went to a different search engine or just failed. How you fail at that task is beyond me. ... http://www.robertbolton.com/24-percent-of-users-cant-find-google The other day I talked about using Apache Environment variables to determine which section of a config file to use for a Zend Framework website. That works swimmingly, however, I had a cron job that was running for the same site, and since it was piped directly to php, Apache ... http://www.robertbolton.com/loading-zend-config-file-for-a-cron-job Via blog, found a link to a proposal for Traits in PHP. I wasn’t familiar with the practice, but as I read the proposal it struck a cord with me. I have been grappling with how to reuse certain functionality throughout disparate classes. I looked at Mixins, which I also ... http://www.robertbolton.com/traits-for-php The database was upgraded to MS SQL 9 and required me to use 2005 SQL Server Management Studio instead of Enterprise Manager. While trying to import a .csv file, I ran into a number of errors and spent awhile trying to figure out what the problem was. If you get ... http://www.robertbolton.com/data-conversion-failed-on-ms-sql-import