Sunday, August 21, 2005

Note to self: look into this. 

A little cross-linking: I've posted about the OPML Community Server here. 

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Weekend! 

It's saturday, delicious! Time for a test:

Radio

Cool, the glossary works. So much for a little "let's make that work" project. The only downside is that it doesn't work in the RSS feed, but that's a bug that exists in Radio, so it makes sense that it's still alive here. Maybe it's an idea to fix that.

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Running your own Community Server 

I would like it if my OPML-blog postings could be served on my rented web space, which runs Apache on Linux. The only way to do this, on a server on which I cannot run software myself, is to port all of the OPML Community Server functionality to PHP. I know PHP, my web space kan execute PHP scripts and I know it can be done in PHP.

So that's what I want to do.

In fact, I already started to. Somewhere in june, when the OPML Editor wasn't made public yet, Dave announced that the server would be made public at some point in time, and that he would welcome other versions of it. I then started to write a directory displayer in PHP, which is basically easy but gets a bit harder when you consider the infinite linking of OPML files.

I stopped working on it after a few evenings of hard work, because I do have a life and other things wanted me to do them, but I'm going to continue writing this thing, adding some code every now and then.

Shall I release it when I'm done, or when it's in a releasable state?

Friday, August 12, 2005

Revenew: "How to buy RSS advertising" 

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Nomadicoder asks how to delete an empty entry. Well, if one day is completely empty on your blog, but it does show up as if you've posted stuff on that day, it probably means there's an empty OPML file in you folder. Look for 04.opml in OPML/www/blog/2005/08/ and delete it. If everything works well, the delete will be repeated on the server and the entry will be gone. 

Please note that if you Open Today's Outline, it will be created and upstreamed, so don't open it without typing in it. 

Monday, August 08, 2005

This bug has been fixed in the latest OPML Editor release, so you don't have to do it yourself. Just update the code and you're done. Also look here. 

Sunday, August 07, 2005

iTunes is really irritating me. I'm listening to an audio stream using iTunes, but everytime the connection stops for a second, iTunes thinks it needs to bring itself to the front to show me the 'rebuffering' message..That really annoys me. I hate applications that make the decision to come to the front of my screen all on their own. I should be the one making that call. 

Todd has some problems with copying and pasting text in the editor. He's not the only one. I've been having this problem with Radio UserLand, Frontier and now with this OPML Editor. Seems like it's a Frontier bug. Do the Frontier people already know the bug? 

Marc Barrot: "We need to build a version of activeRenderer on the server that is rendering the outline on the server." That would really be way cool. 

ArchiTek: "CoffeeTalk is the name I chose for my method of using OPML to send instant notifications of changes to OPML documents" - Lots of text over at that blog, looks like a lot of work, but it surely does sound interesting. 

Thanks to kosso, I've put my Flickr pictures at the left of the page. Looks nice, huh? 

Joost is using a well-known Wordpress theme for his blog. I like it! 

RSS feed is missing a description 

kosso notices a bug in the outliner: it doesn't read feeds which don't have descriptions. I think it's a Frontier bug, because I can't subscribe to OPML blog feeds because of the same reason (my aggregator is built on Frontier). The solution would be to put a description in the feed. Maybe we can hack that in?

Okay, we can. Actually the description is already there, in dotOpml.root. Go to dotOpmlSuite.blog.buildRss. Look for this line:

As you can see, it's commented out. Select the line, press Ctrl-backslash and click the Compile button at the top of the window. Rebuild your RSS, and there is your description. It's empty, but it's there.

Just tried subscribing to the feed in Radio UserLand, and it works.