Ryan Parman ∞

Published in simplepie-ng

·Feb 4, 2018

PHP, DOMDocument, XPath 1.0, Case-Insensitivity, and Performance

TL;DR: How I improved the performance of case-insensitive XPath queries by 30–35%, reducing an 8× performance hit to only 4.5–5×. Parse-at-all-costs Most feeds are a mess. The old SimplePie “OG” took a parse-at-all-costs philosophy, and could handle many of the most broken feeds you could find — at a cost. While…

Programming

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PHP, DOMDocument, XPath 1.0, Case-Insensitivity, and Performance

Programming

5 min read

Published in simplepie-ng

·Dec 17, 2017

A refresh of the SimplePie logo

Today, I’m introducing a refresh of the SimplePie logo and the most visible part of its brand. I’m calling this new branding style SimplePie Neue. The Icon I designed the original SimplePie logo back in 2005. At the time, Web 2.0 and Ajax were brand-new things to most web developers. Mac OS…

Design

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Design

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Published in simplepie-ng

·Dec 17, 2017

SimplePie is back in development!

After retiring from SimplePie development in 2009, the project more or less went into maintenance mode. While I am thankful to the folks who have contributed to its development over the last 8 years, it’s time for a reboot. SimplePie NG is a modern, next-generation PHP package for working with…

PHP

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PHP

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