RUBY 

I've been toying with the idea of having a tinker with Ruby (on Rails) sometime soon, and came across this. Note to self: Finish podbat first ;) Hmm... but then, it might help. We'll see

There are too many useful scripting languages around. The scripts in the OPML Editor look really interesting and it's cool to drag (out)lines of code around like this. I've never tried running Frontier.

It's all a question of having the time. Ruby on Rails gets alot of buzz at the moment. And they have a podcast. Shame they haven't done more for a while.

Maybe I'll make time on Tuesdays to play with this

WAVECABLE SUBSCRIBERS? 

Hmm.. I was just just watching my logs go by (being a geek y'see ) and I can see that someone on a wavecable connection in Kirkland appears to be subscribed to an OPML file on my server. Now, I don't mind that at all, but the opml file in question is my 'mySubscriptions.opml' file from my Radio-powered blog over at http://blog.podbat.com and it doesn't change that regularly. This guy it hitting it every two minutes, as if it was a buddy outline!!

Weird!

COOL! BUILT-IN RSS DESCRIPTION FIXED! 

Thanks Dave! Version 0.6 now fills in the required description tag in our RSS feeds! Yay!

Also, a bonus that the update didn't blat my new Menu item to set it either ;)

And Dave makes a mention of new callbacks for file uploading. THIS is VERY interesting to me, as we need some way of detecting and presenting what goes on when files get uploaded. I love progress bars as much as cocktail ones ;)

Also, the podbat does file uploading too, so who knows, one day we might have an OPML Editor version of the podbat interface for managing podcast feeds. With all the html ability in the editor's windows frames, the whole shebang could get dropped in there some day. Hmmmm :) Nice!

Penguins are COOL! :)

Coo.. never seen this lot before. I wonder if they could ingest opml too? :) I think OPML is perfect for book writers / screenwriters etc.

CHANGES TO RSS 

OK, I have written some php to parse the changes.opml.org opml file so that it links to the rss feeds instead of the web pages. :)

Here's a link to the output:

This file gets updated every 15 minutes

Here's a link to the PHP source I wrote : PHP XPath class required

BUG IN OUTLINER RSS READER? 

UDPATE: 'Fix' posted by Peter "Thanks Peter!" :)

Open this opml file in your outliner

You'll see that a double-click the BBC News rss feed will expand as expected

However, doing the same my rss feed generated by the server does not

The error suggests that the lack of a feed description tag in the rss feed breaks the reader

Error parsing RSS: Can't get the address of "description" because the table doesn't have an object with that name.

Further investigation of our rss feeds on hosting.opmlorg show the description is not set

Surely an oversight :)

Unless I'm doing something really stoopid!

I've wrriten some php to parse the changes.opml file and insert the urls to the blog rss feeds

FULL LIST OF OPLML'ers 

I saw William Waldman asking where the full list of users is.

Here it is: http://hosting.opml.org/index.opml

Create a link to it in a outline which you could link to from your Instant Outline. It's big and hefty download, so be patient.

Don't paste it all in your IO. Link to it, or your IO readers will have to download it too!

I have also been thinking that I will parse this file to keep tabs on who has blogs, who has an IO and who updates most frequently :)

hmmmmm.....

HEY THANKS! 

Woo! I woke up, had a look at changes and yowza! The first blog I look at had this in the sidebar!! How cool it that!? Very :)

THANKS FRED! :) Nice keyboard ! I have the DiNovo too

EVERY CARTOONIST SHOULD HAVE AN RSS FEED 

I wish this one did, which I just found after a conversation about the phrase Non-Sequitur

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