As noted on his blog, Alex King has released an updated version of Tasks Pro (1.0 now). He has worked very hard on this project and it really is a gem! Tasks management on the web does not have to be bloatware and this set of scripts proves just that. Some of the features of 1.0 include multiuser functionality and a list of changes from previous versions can be found here. You can demo Tasks Pro 1.0 here and read more about it here. Good job Alex (as always) !

I have to post a link to this because I lose it all the time. This is Dunstan Orchard’s Nicer Titles CSS code. Very pretty, useful and aesthetically pleasing. Think of them this way, before you click on a link, as soon as you point to it, the page provides a nicely formed description of what the link points to. Pretty? Sure! Useful? Heck Yeah! Nice Titles Link

This is a wonderful tool written by Tony Bierman (an accomplished software architect and manager, I might add) which lets a webmaster add flavor to any HTML markup page. It is of course, of great use to us bloggers who are looking to make our pages more quality sensitive. Basically it is a combination of filters for various acronyms, links, search terms etc. In the words of Tony, phpGiggle locates user-defined keywords and phrases in an HTML document or string and subsequently replaces the keywords or phrases with anchor tags linking to user-defined URLs. As well, pre-defined ‘template’ anchor tags are included for Google.com, Dictionary.com, Webopedia.com, Vivisimo.com, CPAN.org, Freshmeat.net and others. With phpGiggle, anchor tags for an entire website can be contained in a single file, with links being dynamically generated when the HTML is displayed to vistor’s browser. This is particulary useful for sites with dynamically generated content, such […]

I wrote a small newsreader php script which could be used in a bunch of applications. It is really simple, reads RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 (with ATOM support coming up). Here is the link to the script. It is really simple to implement. Call the script as a link with the variable ‘url’ containing the RSS url and you are done. For example: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/newsreader.php?url=http://dinki.mine.nu/weblog/wp-rss2.php brings up my main blog’s news feed. I use it on my main blog to provide news links from my blogroll.

While answering a question in the wordpress forums, I remembered an (obscure to me) function in php which generates a regular expressions ( regex ) to be used in a MySql query. This is very useful when performing a dynamic ORDER_BY or a SELECT and you do not want to use the LIKE statement. The syntax is as follows: $new_string = mysql_regcase($string); Where the $string was the original query string and the $new_string is the regex for that query string. I am not sure whether WordPress uses this or not. However, it sure could prove useful in unlikely circumstances.

Glenn Slaven has a way to add RSS feeds directly to your FeedDemon installation through Internet Explorer. Good work and very useful. In case you havent checked out the 1.0 version of FeedDemon, download the trial. I LOVE the program but I cannot afford to buy it. (I was a beta tester, so I know)