Random Articles

• New Year. New Approach The FeedSeeder Project is awakening from a brief hibernation. While the core ideas will remain (they’ve even gotten more defined), the code is undergoing a rewrite (thankfullly, there wasn’t much to begin with). First item on the To Make Better list: OPML import speed.
• Tuesday, March 27, 2007 2:35:10 PM Trawlr. Another browser-based, Rails-built, RSS reader thingy. As I await my opml import (tick….tock…tick…tock), I’m not impressed. Confirming there’s lots of work to do in RSS land. Yes, I’ve got horse in the race….but only ’cause I haven’t found another horse worth betting on.
• Undead End After reading an article in my RSS reader, there are a number of actions I’d like to perform. All of these are about moving the ball forward. How many of these does your aggregator do easily? Post a comment to the original article. Email the author. Post a reaction on your own public blog while quoting, crediting, and
• The Benefits of Screencasting in Software Development Yes, I’ve been too busy working on the FeedSeeder project to write up too much about it. That said, I’ve been privately documenting it’s development with screencasts. At the end of each development day, I start at the beginning of the app, load up iShowU and walk through all the functionality as if I’m presenting it
• Tags Less For Me and You, More For Us In working with FeedSeeder, and interesting transformation has happened. I actually see value in tagging text. For video, audio, and pictues - text tagging is a no- brainer. There’s really no better way to get the media categorized than by asking the community to do it. Text for me was a much tougher sell. I kept asking