I’ve just read Mark Pilgrim’s post, “The infinite hotel”, which I’m sure I’ll need to re-read a few times and chase down references to read. Also I’m reading Gödel, Escher, Bach again for the third time, since I first read it in high school and needed corks in my ears to prevent brain slurry [...]
Yearly Archives: 2003
Varied feed polling times versus item urgency in aggregators
November 26, 2003 – 11:02 am
The problem with varying the polling interval is that the need varies. It’s ok not to poll my little opensource website within 24 hours, but what about the announcements to the civil defence website or local municipal environment alerts, or the nuclear power plant news feed? Source:Comments on The End of RSS Definitely a good point [...]
Publishing Quick Links in blosxom with del.icio.us via xmlstarlet
November 21, 2003 – 9:47 am
In case anyone is interested in using del.icio.us with blosxom in place of my own BookmarkBlogger, get yourself a copy of xmlstarlet and check out this shell script: !/bin/bash DATE=${1-date +%Y-%m-%d} BLOG=”/Users/deusx/desktop/decafbad-entries/links” FN=”${BLOG}/”echo ${DATE} | sed -e ‘y/0123456789-/oabcdefghij/’”.txt” curl -s -u deusx:HAHAHA ‘http://del.icio.us/api/posts/get?dt=’${DATE} |\ tidy -xml -asxml -q -f /dev/null |\ xml sel -t [...]
Building the Recipe Web III
November 20, 2003 – 11:34 am
I haven’t had much time to tinker in the past week or two, but I have still been thinking about recipes and blogs. I’ve also been trading emails with Troy Hakala, who’s one of the food & techie geeks responsible for RecipeZaar and who also has had a hand in the aforementioned RecipeML spec [...]
VoodooPad gets an XML-RPC wiki API
November 18, 2003 – 8:36 pm
You wanted to share the same documents with your coworkers and friends. Now you can. With VoodooPad 1.1, you can view, edit, and save to any wiki that supports the ‘vpwiki api’. Source:Flying Meat Software <p>Funny, I’ve been tinkering with <a href=”http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/XmlRpcToWiki”>a wiki <span class=”caps”>API</span></a> along with a <a href=”http://www.jspwiki.org/Wiki.jsp?page=WikiRPCInterface”>few others tinkerers</a> for a year or so now. [...]
Building the Recipe Web II
November 16, 2003 – 11:39 pm
Every once in a while, someone gets ideas about crossing recipes and computers. Of course, I love the idea. Two common ideas we hear a lot are 1) to put recipes in XML format and do all sorts of wonderful things and 2) that kitchen appliances should be smart and you should be able to [...]
Building the Recipe Web?
November 14, 2003 – 6:51 pm
RecipeML is a format for representing recipes on computer. It is written in the increasingly popularExtensible Markup Language - XML. If you run a recipe web site, or are creating a software program — on any platform — that works with recipes, then you should consider using RecipeML for coding your recipes! See the FAQs and [...]
