Monthly Archives: April 2007

Say hello to FeedMagick2

April 29, 2007 – 11:06 pm

Yeah, things have been basically silent around here thanks to post-work brain fryage and a general lack of things to say. Really, everyone else around the blogosphere seems to be covering things satisfactorily. However, I have been idly working on a new project over the past few weeks, namely a total rewrite and [...]

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i (heart) ficlets, microformats, and feed scrapers

April 5, 2007 – 2:00 am

I’ve really got to reiterate / call out a few points from that last entry: I ❤ making feed scrapers, although they’re sometimes a pain. I ❤ Microformats, for making scrapers easy. I ❤ Ficlets for using Microformats and making it easy for me to use their site as an API using just XSL and HTTP GET. I’d love [...]

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Ficlets enhanced author feed, an XSL scraper hack

April 5, 2007 – 1:37 am

I’ve been trying to get myself serious about writing and even set up a personal slush pile for my output. Then, I found Ficlets, and spewed a few quick starter stories there. And then… I stopped. I’m hoping to pick it up again very soon, but I guess that’s the nature of [...]

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a new direction

April 1, 2007 – 2:02 pm

Starting today, I’m going to commit to posting here twice daily! More hacks, more commentary, more snark, and more grousing! I’ll also be starting on that ten volume novel series finally! It’ll be a multi-generational romance story set just after the Singularity! … Yeah, sorry, that’s my crappy April Fools joke. I should [...]

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