So, this dude named @coreyweb has a personal website. He coded it all by himself using PHP, and he was very proud. Then one day he got it in his head to make his page more dynamic, with streams from Twitter, and Flickr, and RSS from his favorite blogs.
"This will be easy," he thought to himself. "Why, with all these services providing their own clients, adding those feeds to my site will be a snap!" But soon, he discovered the truth:
web service API wrappers suck.
Each service's feed is different, and each client has a unique author. Nobody is singing from the same sheet, and none of them cache their data feeds!
So @coreyweb reached out to this other dude named @collegeman, and together they hatched a plan to make things easier. "Forget having to learn some crazy API for each new service," they proclaimed. "Let's write a universal web services client with caching built-in!"
Thus, with little fuss, coreylib was born. And now you can use it in your projects for free.