http://marcovitanza.com MarcoVitanza.com Blog en-us Copyright 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:37:15 +0000 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:37:15 +0000 http://marcovitanza.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Are you an iPhone developer? Do you need an easy way to make sense of your daily sales reports? Here's a simple PHP script I wrote to make it easier to track your sales: PHP App Store Reports And here is a screenshot of it in action. This script doesn't track dollars and cents, only number of downloads. You can filter by day, by region, and by app. Enjoy!...http://marcovitanza.com/blog/12http://marcovitanza.com/blog/12Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:17:36 +0000I've updated my custom web search sample code to include support for multiple result pages. Now links will appear, if necessary, to the next and previous result pages. Check it out via my original post....http://marcovitanza.com/blog/11http://marcovitanza.com/blog/11Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:42:47 +0000BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo's new open search platform. Using the BOSS API, developers have access to Yahoo's entire search index to create custom searches, mashups, and more. Read more about it here. A practical (and simple) use for BOSS is to build a custom search page so that users can search your website. I wrote a simple search page to do this using PHP with the CURL extension. Let's take a look at the steps needed to execute a simple site search with BOSS and PHP: ...http://marcovitanza.com/blog/10http://marcovitanza.com/blog/10Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:16:12 +0000According to tgdaily.com, Firefox's market share has seen some significant growth since the 3.0 release. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer market share is trending down, while Mozilla is playing with the 20% range and is successfully jumping over this mark more often. The average market share for Firefox was 19.27% in June, up from 18.41% in May. Internet Explorer dropped from 73.75% to 72.95% in the same time frame....http://marcovitanza.com/blog/9http://marcovitanza.com/blog/9Fri, 1 Aug 2008 21:11:36 +0000According to this InformationWeek article: In 1998, when Google opened for business, it had 26 million URLs. By 2000, it had reached 1 billion. In 2005, Google claimed it had more than 8 billion Web pages in its index, at least until it took the index count off its home page. In 2008, Google's measure of the Web is 1 trillion Web pages....http://marcovitanza.com/blog/8http://marcovitanza.com/blog/8Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:03:53 +0000I am happy to announce that the winners of the Yahoo SearchMonkey Developer Challenge have been posted on YSearchBlog and the grand prize winner is none other than yours truly. Judges included Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, Rasmus Lerdorf of Yahoo!, John Musser of ProgrammableWeb, and Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand. Grand Prize - Marco Vitanza is taking home $10,000 for his Blogspot Infobar, which displays links to recent posts for all Blogspot search results. Thanks, Marco, we here at S...http://marcovitanza.com/blog/7http://marcovitanza.com/blog/7Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:15:47 +0000Google Code Jam is a coding competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time. Registration ends on July 17. $80,000 in prize money will be distributed starting with $10,000 to the winner, all the way down to $250 for 100th place. You can check out practice problems at the site. Each problem has a small and large input data set. Solutions can be implemented in any programming language. For each input data set...http://marcovitanza.com/blog/6http://marcovitanza.com/blog/6Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:02 +0000Smashing Magazine has published two interesting studies on web form design practices (part 1, part 2). They gathered information about the sign-up forms from 100 popular sites and compiled it into a number of easy-to-read charts and graphs. Where should the link to the form be placed in the layout? How should we design it? How should we highlight the labels and how should we align them? How do web form design patterns look like in modern web-sites? For example, 57% of the forms provided static...http://marcovitanza.com/blog/5http://marcovitanza.com/blog/5Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:01 +0000From Apple Insider: Photos that reveal the industrial design of Apple Inc.'s next-generation MacBook Pro notebooks have been making the rounds on the Internet since late last week, AppleInsider has learned. The photos show a trademark aluminum Apple notebook enclosure that appears slightly thinner than the one employed by the current MacBook Pro. The edges of the casing are also more tapered, somewhat akin to the design of the company's relatively new 13-inch MacBook Air. I've been thinking o...http://marcovitanza.com/blog/4http://marcovitanza.com/blog/4Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000In my previous posts, I introduced SearchMonkey and talked about creating a custom data service. Now, I'll discuss how to use the data service in an app, and the different display options that apps have. Besides entering a name and description for a new app, the first thing you need to do is decide whether it will be an Enhanced Result or an Infobar. An Enhanced Result will replace the normal listings in search results, and has the option of displaying a thumbnail image, a description, up to fo...http://marcovitanza.com/blog/3http://marcovitanza.com/blog/3Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000