Well I am now relieved in the knowlege that I passed all my exams!!!:-) So over the next few months I am going to be aiming a great deal more of my efforts towards my project. With head in C++ books, coffee flowing and fingers steaming at the keyboard, I hope to be more productive on the NewSwap project!

“The FORM-Virus sends greetings to everyone whos reading this text. FORM doesnt destroy data! Dont panic!” –Form.A Virus

I thought the RSS News Stream Reader I programmed in PHP may be of use to someone so I have put it on JLSNet in the Projects section.

“Wise man say… man who walk in front of bus get tired” –Wise Man

After a great deal of research into how to ‘entice’ Google to Deep Crawl websites I found a few interesting points out… Creating a super simple sitemap of all site links makes the Google Bots life easier. Each page should have a different Title so Google does not think they are duplicate pages. Getting as many people as you can to link to your site increases site Page Rank, which is the Google rating system.

“Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.” –Sir James Dewar

With my exams now all finished I can safely relax a little (for now… still got Final Year Project to get on with!) I have programmed a nice Site News Editor for my Admin backend which writes to the Site News XML/RSS file. My news feed has also been validated as correct by http://www.feedvalidator.org/. Had a little play with the Tech Headlines news feeder and have improved on the previous PHP code so it will work for any RSS feeds and only update the news if it is over 30 mins old.

“When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.” –Texas State Law, Dumb Laws

Woah! I’m going all professional and have started playing about with XML! I should really be doing revision for what could possibly the hardest exam I ever do - Theoretical Computer Science B! but as any human would do, I am finding 101 other things to do other than revision. This News page is now powered with XML as an RSS feed! I have converted all previous news into the XML/RSS and created a front end generator to read it. This page is the result You can even see older archived news (see link at the bottom of news page).

“Two Aerials meet on a roof - fall in love - get married. The ceremony was rubbish but the Reception was Brilliant.” –Tommy Cooper