Charanjit Chana

Version 1 or Nike+PHP has been out for a while and earlier this month I released v1.2.1.

The code has been downloaded over 100 times and I'm extremely proud of that fact! I would love to see how people are using the code, so please add to the Examples page on the wiki.

I also changed the branding for the project a little bit, but need time to work on the site, something I might do in March. The site is a little bright, something I wanted it to be, but I'll be toning it down a bit in the next refresh.

The old logo was dark, plain and, well, just boring!



The new one is lighter, has a bit of depth and contains the Nike logo (hope I don't get into any trouble for that!).

Possibly the best way of pronouncing the new year, 20:10 has already begun and I've already made more changes to http://charanj.it!

My portfolio site now has a slightly better layout, more functionality for the portfolio showcase and more key terms and information about me, as a developer.

I'm looking to improve the twitter situation, because not all my tweets are really suitable for my portfolio site, but I'll decide what to do with that a bit later!

I haven't had the time to work on receeve.it properly for a few weeks, but I am looking to release the following things in the near future:

1. Nike+PHP v0.9.1
2. A mobile poker site (trying some revenue ideas out)
3. Migrating the odd blog post from the old Be Unequaled blog

As you may be aware, Be Unequaled is no longer around as a fashion site, but will return in the future in a different form. I feel that the blog had some decent content so I'll be migrating that over bit by bit to this blog.

I tweeted a few things about my new portfolio and I finally got it up yesterday evening!

I feel that it showcases my talents a lot better than the last version and has a lot more personality! The site is built in HTML5 and uses CSS3, it should degrade nicely down to XHTML and CSS2.

Quite a bit of jQuery, but all unobtrusive. As has become my signature, the site doesn't work in IE6, but I really couldn't care!

Check out charanj.it!

So I am a lover of Nike+ and have had a Nike+ stat widget on the side of my blog for quite a while now. The project can be found at http://nikeplusphp.org.

It came to my attention that the method used wasn't the easiest and certainly wasn't up to date. Looks like something changed on Nike's end and that has broken the API I was using.

Looking around for an alternative, I was inspired to build my own class and am now firmly at version 0.7 with it. I've created a small website for the project where you can grab the code and there's some documentation to help you get started.

The project is called Nike+PHP and all you need is a Nike+ account, PHP5 and SimpleXML installed.

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Over the last few months we've been working hard to get the new combined Money & Property site up and running.

We're really happy with how it turned out because it looks great and we believe it's faster than the old site! We launched on Wednesday after a big effort by everyone involved. Take a look at the site and let me know what you think!

Today is the 1st of February and as promised, Be Unequaled is no more. Due to a lack of time on my part and the continued decline in activity, I feel it was the right thing to do. I am sad to see the site come to an end, but it really felt like the right thing to do.

As for receeve.it, things are coming on along nicely! I have a few small features left to polish off and the layout needs some work, but we're pretty much there.

Luckily, I have a holiday coming up over which time I believe I'll have no, or very little, internet access. I aim to take a bit of time off from development and get my head ready for an onslaught when I'm back! This will all be in the aid of getting a BETA version out by the end of February or beginning of March. In the even that I don't get away, I'll still try to do that.

If you want to keep up to date with receeve.it, please register on the mailing list and follow the blog that I set up.

I won't say too much just yet, but receeve.it is going to be my next project.

If you're interested in what I have coming up for the site, please visit the site and signup for updates and to be eligible for the BETA program.

Over the new year, I made a couple of changes that will affect my two biggest projects to date. On 1st February I will be shutting down Be Unequaled, having already closed Billionaire-Boys-Club.co.uk.

Billionaire-Boys-Club.co.uk didn't go where I wanted it to in the long run, but was a great start to a little community and gave me an opportunity to learn so much about communities, PHP, MySQL, CMS', forum admin, website admin, dealing with advertisers and probably 100 other skills.

I enjoyed working on it but Be Unequaled was the natural progression for me. The site was better managed, better built and I felt it was a better place to be without the focus of a brand like BBC.

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As friends, family and most acquaintances already know, I'm due to get married next year and to mark the occasion and all events leading up to it, I started a wedding website to keep a record of everything.



My fiance and I have been fortunate enough to have had hundreds, if not thousands, of photos taken and we've added the best of them to the website. For privacy reasons, you do need to be logged in to see the full size photos. If you don't have access and would like to see them, please get in contact with me if you'd like to see them (although the username and password will be handed out at my discretion).

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