#FridayFive: Feeds to Follow August 7th, 2009 @ 5:42 am PDT
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How to Subscribe to RSS Feeds in Mac OS X January 18th, 2009 @ 5:42 pm PST
At one point I was doing my best to try to read over 100 different blogs each day. It was, in addition to unbelievably time-consuming, very frustrating when I’d see that some large percentage hadn’t been updated since the last time I’d checked. Enter RSS. RSS stands for “real simple syndication”. What does that mean? […]
RSS and the Remote Control April 18th, 2007 @ 6:54 am PDT
All three of the televisions in my house are connected to either a TiVo box or a DirecTV box. Both of these systems give me the option of displaying a “guide” in a grid right on the screen. If I want to see what else I can watch, I click to the guide and browse […]
Amazon Wishlist Yahoo! Pipe February 21st, 2007 @ 7:37 pm PST
Programming with Pipes
Three Simple Steps to Fix Technorati Tags December 11th, 2006 @ 6:52 am PST
In which I explain how to improve a plugin
Tags and Technorati December 7th, 2006 @ 10:39 am PST
A little while ago I cobbled together a tagging system here on the site. The tags appear at the bottom of each post and you can use them to find related content. For some reason, though, they aren’t being caught by Technorati. I’m pretty sure I followed their specs exactly, but no dice. Every time […]
How to Display RSS Feeds Using PHP December 6th, 2006 @ 6:32 pm PST
If you’re interested in displaying an RSS feed from an external source using PHP, you simply must grab RSS_Fetch by Drew Phillips. It is by far the easiest implementation that I have found. The readme file is very detailed and the code is well-documented. I highly recommend it.
XML / RSS May 4th, 2002 @ 11:31 am PDT
Cool! My XML feed validated without a hitch. I was able to successfully register it with XMLTree and UserLand.com.
Wireless June 1st, 2001 @ 9:57 am PDT
AvantGo is a pretty cool site if you have a PDA (a Palm Pilot or a Handspring Visor). It’s been around for a long time and I’ve used it before to get updates on the Gators and Red Sox and such. They have a new page that allows you to connect your mobile phone to […]
