Feed for First Monday

Posted by Michael Giarlo on September 30, 2006

I couldn't find a good feed for First Monday, so I scraped one together:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/FirstMonday (Subscribe with Bloglines)

Let me know if you notice any problems with the feed (other than character encoding issues).

Screenscraped RSS Feeds

Posted by Michael Giarlo on July 12, 2006

I confess; I'm a fan of graphic novels, many of which are published by DC imprints Vertigo and WildStorm. Wanting to keep up with the newest titles without having to make weekly stops to the local comic shop — which is a nifty shop, but why get up off your butt to do something if you don't have to? — I went a-searchin' for some RSS feeds and found naught. There may be some out there, and I'd be happy to hear of them.

In the meantime, however, I've thrown together a quick and dirty screen-scraper (36 lines of PHP, partly inspired by Screen Scraping Your Way Into RSS) that grabs an appropriate "new comics" page on the DC website, and generates an RSS feed from relevant discovered information. To keep abreast of new Vertigo or WildStorm comics, subscribe to the following feeds (which should be updated on a monthly basis):

http://feeds.feedburner.com/WildstormComics (Sub with Bloglines)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/VertigoComics (Sub with Bloglines)

Enjoy, and spread the goodness if you wish.

unAPI revision 3 plug-in for WordPress

Posted by Michael Giarlo on May 19, 2006

The unAPI plug-in for WordPress has moved to the following location: http://www.lackoftalent.org/michael/blog/unapi-wordpress-plug-in/

unAPI revision 1-compliant

Posted by Michael Giarlo on March 08, 2006

I noticed Dan Chudnov's earlier note about the launch of the unAPI website and noted in particular the the unAPI revision 1 specification.  I decided to give Technosophia a run through some error cases and some of the errors came up as 400 where they should have been 404 or 406.  I made a few minor tweaks to pbinkley's unAPI WordPress plug-in and I believe Technosophia is now fully compliant with unAPI revision 1. 

Here are the test cases I used:

Woohoo?

 

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