Tag: rss

Addressing Code :: not Code Geass

Posted by Ryan A - April 7, 08

yea

This wil be short. Basically, I did some clean and planned coding on AniSnaps!, while I didn’t even touch the gigantisaur melative. I’m shifting my weekend workload off of melative, since it is online and I tend to get insomnia if I work on that site for 14 hours a day. Work will commence during the week, but the weekends will be for AniSnaps!.

I stated it before, but the idea of AniSnaps is a place for bloggers to hold their snapshots. Why does this matter? Everybody seems to be doing things their own way, etc etc. Well, personally, taking snapshots had been made so easy since this post. Now, I mouse-click and it just happens, 50 snaps at the move of a finger.

Not every snap I take is a keeper though, so yes, I do go through and delete some, give them a proper name (ie ZettaiKarenChildren01-0001.png), and then send them through FTP to the uploads directory. Users have an upload director where they can process their snaps into sets, the pattern matching is adjustable but patterns create automation. The only requirement is properly named images, upload, and refresh.

Once a set is processed, its open from their. The sizes for a blog are accessible and customizable, per user. Some features I am looking at:

  • Phatch script support
  • Square cropping
  • RSS on sets
  • User custom XSL/CSS
  • Javascript viewer on blogs (load RSS and view the snaps in a small control rather than a huge blob)

This post turned out longer than expected. Anyway, I may add an additional column on AloeDream once I get the SnapSets RSS feeds rolling. It will be similar to the melative reflections.

Ryan A

In Reading Feeds

Posted by Ryan A - April 3, 08

lolisearch

bluemist posted about reading feeds not too long ago, and I commented about using RSSOwl. The feature bluemist is looking for is simple, Search Folders on feed groups, which could be done on the server level; Animeblogger Antenna, but it is much simpler to do this on the client, where they are going to aggregate the feeds anyway.

I wasn’t positive of this feature in RSSOwl, but it is there, and highly customizable; highly (I searched for loli within specific folders, and found 12 results). To my disbelief, RSSOwl also now includes a feature which it lacked for so long, and which I stated was a drawback on bluemist’s blog, and that was item retention. RSSOwl does retain feeds! It does! I found this out while playing with Miletstone 8; I believe this was included in all milestone versions. So there is no need to worry about losing articles waiting to be read.

vs Liferea

Liferea is a lightweight, GTK+ reader that accomplishes these things will much greater simplicity than RSSOwl. Though I have literally just installed it, it seems very dependable and similar to the simplicity of SharpReader. Even though the search folders option of Liferea is not as extensive, I believe it would do the above job perfectly. At this time, the only drawback is that a Windows install may not be streamlined.

Until Liferea is confirmed for builds on Windows, I will maintain my suggestion of RSSOwl, as I test Liferea.

Ryan A