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Resources Archive

Dan Cunningham — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:47:35 +0000

I’ve been known to tweet a lot of resources & web finds with web, design and developement interests. Due to this a lot of people asked me to create an archive of these posts so they didn’t have to favourite my every tweet!

I took it upon myself (with some advice from a few friends) to actually write some new code and create this archive. At the top of this page you will see a “Resources” link. Inside that page is an archive of everything I’ve tweeted with a preview of the site I found it upon. If you click the URL or the Preview then you will go directly through to the original resource. So for those who follow me on Twitter, you can just visit that page from now on rather than having to favourite every tweet.

How it works…

It’s really self explainatry, but basically I make tweets to other design and development resources that I find and read daily online.

I Tweet said resource:-

After the tweet has been made, My site instantly creates the page of the URL I tweeted, giving you a preview of the said resource origin page.

Then just click the link or the preview shot of the resource site and you’ll get the original resource.

I hope that helps everyone!

“Can You Feature My Resource?”

Sure, If you’ve created something cool, possibly unique or even free, Let let me know! I always love to see new things so I’ll definately take a look. If it meets the critera I’ll tweet it and feature it in the resources archive too.

So drop me a message either on twitter or via the contact link in the header of this page.

Regards,
Dan.

Save Twitter Tweets to MySQL with PHP

Dan Cunningham — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:09:25 +0000

Hey guys, So recently after a few talks with some of the folks on twitter alot of guys and girls have been asking me how I managed to save all my tweets into a MySQL database relatively quickly.

Now just to clear some of the things that have been already said, The reason I’m using PHP to pull the tweets and not Javascript is as follows, When Twitter gets overloaded and Mr fail whale makes an apprance (which commonly happens) then the tweets on my website have been known to disapear, not only do they disapear but when they are loaded in via Javascript the search engines don’t class this as content thats “on the page” thus it makes no help to my SEO content. Afterall we all like what we say to actually be productive to our sites right? So thats the reasons why I quickly coded up this script.

If you look closey you can see it working on the right hand side of this site. I was also going to release a tutorial on how to do it with a step by step of what each line in the PHP does, but instead of doing a write-up which would be probably been more beneficial for most, I’ve decided to just release the code as a script under the GPL (V3) and then you all can do what you like with it.

Keep in mind that it’s by no means “polished” and there are alot of other better ways to do this, but for those who are interested or just want a quick way to get your tweets from twitter into your own personal MySQL database for archiving then feel free to use this.

Download Tweet2MySQL Here.
Filename : Tweet2MySQL-0.1.zip | Version 0.1 | Download Size 18Kb
Permlink : Tweet2MySQL-0.1 (58) Downloads

Phil Regan Site Updates

Dan Cunningham — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:14:18 +0000

Now as some of you know I tend to do alot of work for other designers and illustrators alike, Mainly because when you’re in the industry of design you tend to end up with alot of contact in close areas of work to you. This isn’t a bad thing, infact its quite the opposite.

Phil Regan is a client of mine and also a very good friend, he’s just finished up on some illustrative design work that he’s been doing for BMW. Now Phil has a keen eye for design and also appreciates anything that is realted to this, which is awesome because if i need someone to check over something, then this would be where Phil comes in. Phil’s eye for illustration and design is phonominal and this leads me onto the work he’s been doing!

I’ve just this week added 3 new pieces of work that phil has completed, to bring his online portfolio upto date. I honestly can’t tell you how good phil is at what he does because quite honestly words can’t describe! (Thats a personal saying of phils!). Anyway, I’ve plugged phil enough for you to be sure to take a wonder over to his site im sure you will after that kind of hype ‘fo sure!’

Phil Regan’s Website
http://www.philregan.co.uk – Technical Illustrator & Visual Artist.

Sanderson Bob is now live

Dan Cunningham — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:16:29 +0000

I’ve been working with Bob for the past month or so coding his website for him and in all honest I’ve loved every minute of it, Quickly May I add he’s a quality guy and very very easy to work with, even though he’s from a Graphic design background he delt with the constrains of web design like a professional! Bob created a layout for his site in which he stated that he wanted to keep it nice and most of all very simple.

I feel that we have totally hit the nail on the head. It has to be by far one of the most simple designs I’ve done in along time! For that it needs definatly has to have its place in my portfolio. Without any exceptions all the backend code is coded in Valid XHTML and CSS as usual. Whist the design of the site is Bob’s work I’m still adding it under my portfolio as Code in my eyes is poetry and its worth showing off for that very reason!

Im very happy with the end product, and seriously can’t wait for Bob to send me some new updates for his online portfolio pages!
If you havn’t already seen Sanderson Bob’s work then don’t hessitate to go and have a look…

Website: Sanderson Bob