A feeling deep inside.
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Archive for the ‘Interop’ Category
8 Mar
A Busy Developer’s Guide to RSS 2.0
Disclaimer: This is not spec text.
Okay, so you’re busy and you’d like to get a quick implementation of RSS up asap and have it work with the largest number of feed readers and aggregators. Coool. Here are some tips for that will make your work go more smoothly, based on the experience of real developers.
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5 Feb
Getting my data out of Flickr?
I was at lunch today with Mike Arrington and a question came up — how do I get my data out of Flickr? I found out the other day that my RSS feed only has the ten most recent pictures in it. So how do I get the rest of the pictures out?
24 Jan
Don’t dis your competitor
There are some very practical time-tested reasons for not dissing your competitors on a personal level.
Like it or not you share a market with this person. How are you ever going to woo away his customers by saying nasty stuff about him to people who like his product? If you waste time talking about [...]
23 Jan
How to save a Gmail message?
This should be a real simple thing to do but I can’t figure out how to do it. I have about a dozen messages in my Gmail inbox that I want to save to my local hard disk. How do I do it? I’ve scoured the online help and have come up with nothing. I [...]
19 Jan
This is a test post
I am at the headquarters of SixApart in San Francisco, and we’re going to see if we can get this to work with Movable Type.
19 Jan
Niall and I are heading over to SixApart
Matt Mullenweg wouldn’t come out to play, so Niall and I are going over to SixApart to get WordPress.root working with Movable Type. Hehe.
This a demo of the software I is talking about.
12 Jan
The mystique of desktop web servers
Q: What is a desktop web server?
I guess it should be no mystery, it’s a web server that runs on your desktop.
Q: What makes a desktop web server different from one that runs on a server?
Not much. You could run Apache on your desktop. In fact, if you’re using a Mac, you are. When [...]
11 Jan
The wonderful world of Apple RSS
Here’s an example feed. You can’t read it in Firefox, and I haven’t been able to get NewsRiver to read it. They must look at the User-Agent header and only return if it’s their browser. Apparently it works with NetNewsWire. What are they doing at Apple?
Well, it’s not a User-Agent thing, it’s looking for [...]
19 Dec
More than a common export format
As discussed in the comments of the previous post on this subject, a commonly supported export format is an important first step, but it is not enough. Here’s what else is needed.
1. The export must be automatic. It must be done by the software, and kept up to date. The user must not be required [...]
