Tyde On The Web

Been playing for sometime with the idea of redoing the template I had on this site. Finally decided tonight to do it.

It has a combination of various templates available for wordpress, complete with my own touches.

i like it. Works a little better than the previous template which was a regular wordpress template.

So, I set up a site testing OverStock.com’s affiliate feeds. First I wanted to try their XML interface, but it wasn’t as good as I wanted it, so instead I opted for the datafeed system. Their datafeed system involves setting up a lot of tables, almost a seperate table for each category to handle the various different fields.

That is working well and downloading new updates on an hourly basis. Each hour, it grabs a new set of data for one category, then the next hour, it grabs another set. Once a day, it unzips all the zip files and uploads them to the database, then deletes the downloaded files.

This can obviously get heavy if you have multiple sites doing this, so I think I will be setting up some sort of a web services interface so that I can have a client script talk to a central server script and serve products to my other planned OverStock affiliate sites that way. Much cleaner, much simpler.

Aside from that, the new cooking site is coming along nicely. It’s a modified version of my CMS as I said before, so the modifications are continuing. Gonna set it up so that people can rate articles, etc.

So, as of this weekend, all the links pages on all of my sites get their links from the same place.

Thanks to that web services system, I only have to update one list of links in one area, and all the links update on every site.

I like it, keeps it nice and simple.

In my last post, I mentioned the idea of putting some recipes on this blog.

That idea changed to me deciding that my current cooking site had kind of reached it’s limit and it was time to start fresh.

I grabbed a good domain name that I could use and I plan to set that up shortly as a new cooking site. It will have a blog-like feel to it, but it will be written using my new CMS (the one I have running freekrai.net at the moment). Easy to make some quick modifications to it to make it have RSS feeds, etc.

I plan to move all my old recipes over to it, plus lots of new ones.

I’ll let you guys know the name of it very shortly