December 31, 2005 – 3:19 pm
And the beauty is that a couple of code jockeys like Phil Torrone and his partner Sergio Zlobin can make it happen in a few days, using platforms (IM) and data structures (RSS) that already exist.
Source: John Battelle’s Searchblog: What Happens When You Mashup RSS, IM, and Publishing Services?
For what it’s worth: Building an [...]
December 31, 2005 – 2:54 pm
…I bought this rather interesting book: Hacking RSS and Atom by Leslie M. Orchard. It covers virtually everything I want to do with my feed blender. Except it does it in Python. Dang.…Programmers seem to get used to the language they use a lot and then find others difficult or poorly designed. As for me, [...]
December 29, 2005 – 2:35 pm
No time for much in the way of coherent thought expressed, but here are a few stray bullets:
“It is the engine that drives itself / But it chooses the uphill climb.”
Yeah, I feel that.
Lots of great things happening at work that are demanding cool things from me. But alas, I feel I’m neither at [...]
December 23, 2005 – 4:46 pm
This blonde joke reminds me a bit of The Aristocrats. Pretty funny stuff!
December 22, 2005 – 12:17 pm
Who would have thought that selling modded Xboxes was illegal? Apparently three Los Angeles men didn’t. Jason Jones and Jonathan Bryant, owners of the ACME game store in L.A., started selling modified Xboxes to customers at an incredible markup—sometimes netting over $500 for a modded box.
Source: Xbox Modders Get Thrown in Jail – Gizmodo
As the [...]
December 19, 2005 – 6:15 pm
Kellan: ” ‘… and that’s not my code.’ ouch”
Eric: “Right now, the only thing we have special for Magpie RSS is that we don’t serve Atom to that user-agent if the version is 0.5.”
Rasmus: “I wrote a simple little PHP 5.1-based RSS parser a while [...]
December 19, 2005 – 6:01 am
Final Update: Actually, it turns out that feeding raw, uncompressed gzip streams to PHP XML parsers causes heartburn. Go figure. I guess that teaches me to poke the lazyweb with a stick.
I’m trying to chase this bug down, but is it just me or do FeedBurner feeds give trouble to PHP XML parsers? [...]
December 18, 2005 – 11:17 pm
The XML purist fanboy in me has had me pshaw‘ing at JSON. But, now that the recent JSON release from Yahoo! reminded me of its existence and I gave it a shot myself, I have to admit that it’s pretty hot—if only for the cross-domain bridging capabilities and the no-fuss parsing.
Although, I do worry [...]
