TagsTagsNew feature tonight! Each and every author of LGF Pages now has her or his own RSS feed, with its own custom URL. There's always been an RSS feed for the whole thing, right here: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Litt leGreenLinks Now you can view any author's RSS feed by using an address like this, with my ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Lizardoid Nation, RSS
Our left-column Ajax RSS widget, with a drop-down list of news sites and blogs that lets you check out their current RSS feeds, has been completely rewritten. The code now uses PHP’s native SimpleXML object library to parse all three flavors of RSS (0.92, 1.0, and 2.0) or ATOM feeds. ...
As I mentioned yesterday, I recently discovered that the LGF server was running PHP 5, not PHP 4 as I thought, and I’ve been like a geek in a gadget store ever since. For years, the RSS news and blog feeds in our left sidebar were driven by a PHP 4 ...
Recently, Google bought Feedburner, the popular RSS hosting service, and it must be said: so far, they are doing an absolutely rotten job of managing it. I’ve had nothing but trouble since the changeover, with feeds that won’t update, feeds with changed URLs but no notice, and worst of all, feed ...
The links posted by the LGF community now have their own RSS feed, through Feedburner; here’s the address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LittleGreenL inks. There’s also a link to this feed in the left sidebar’s “Tools/Info” menu. The feed contains the last 50 links posted, in reverse chronological order. The title of each link goes to ...
LGF, Tech Note, RSS, Syndication, XML, Feedburner, Spinoff Links
The headline on the article at CNN’s web site is: Bush: Keep a conservative in White House. But the headline on CNN’s RSS feed, linked to the same article, is: “Bush wants more of same in White House.” Looks like a moonbat sneaked in between the article and the RSS. (And this ...
LGF, CNN, Media Bias, RSS
I’m not sure how many people actually use the Ajax News feeds feature (in the right sidebar) that lets you quickly browse through news from many different sources without reloading the page, but if it suddenly stops working for you it’s because I’ve tweaked some of the code. If this happens, ...
LGF, Technical Info, Javascript, Ajax, RSS, News
The solution remains elusive, as I try to decide on the best RSS parsing library. Short reviews of the top candidates: * SimplePie: powerful but bloated. 277K (newly-released v1.0) is way too much code just to show headlines with popup descriptions. Atomization is where it’s at. This is globular. * PEAR’s XML_RSS ...
Here’s an open thread for the Sunday overnight lizards, with a special note from Geekland: The Ajax news feeds are now being cached in our MySQL database instead of in flat files; we no longer use SimplePie, but a custom-built system based on PEAR’s XML_RSS package. This is a big step ...
LGF, Open Thread, RSS, PEAR, Caching
Yes, we have yet another change to announce. In our quest to conserve bandwidth and system resources, and keep LGF online as much as possible, we’ve now set up an account with Feedburner and changed the addresses of our two RSS feeds. There’s a redirect that will automatically forward you ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, Makeover, Blog Engine, MySQL, Refactoring, RSS, Feedburner
Gulp. Those Digg links are working just a liiiittle bit too well. Help is on the way; we’ve ordered a second machine to distribute some of the load as soon as possible. When the new server’s in place, we should be able to withstand these surges without much noticeable latency. ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript, Traffic, Digg
Our new Digg links are working better than we could have imagined; we’re having another major traffic surge tonight because another LGF post made it to the Digg front page: Digg - German Muslims Seething at Carnival Parade. UPDATE at 2/21/07 8:01:37 am: I should point out that even though Digg makes ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript, Digg
In the latest enhancement to the LGF Blog Engine, I’ve used the code from this page at Digg.com to include a little link below each post that shows its current number of “diggs” (votes), with a button to let you quickly submit a digg if you have an account. I also ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript, Digg, Video
I’ve tweaked the popup article descriptions a bit more, by inserting a quarter-second pause when the mouse hovers over a headline in our Ajax News Feeds section. This way, the popups only appear if you want them to, not if your mouse is just passing over on the way to ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript, Traffic
Another enhancement to the Ajax news feed section of LGF: Yahoo News is kind enough (and non-standard enough) to provide thumbnail photographs in their feeds, so the popup box that appears when you hover over a Yahoo news headline will now include that photograph. Every article description doesn’t contain a ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript
Another enhancement to our Ajax-driven news feeds: since the handling of the “title” attribute differs so wildly from browser to browser, I’ve implemented a Javascript popup method instead to display the article excerpts. You can see the excerpts by hovering your mouse over a headline; a box pops up showing you ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript
Yet another enhancement to the Ajax News feeds feature today: if you hover your mouse over a headline for a second or two, a popup box will show the first 40 words of the body of the article. A couple more blogs have been added, and the feeds from Ynet News ...
A quick technical update: several news headline feeds have been added to our Ajax RSS module... blogs and MSM mouthpieces alike. (Note to the New York Sun: your RSS feeds have one or two items? What’s that about? Great paper, now get in the game, guys.) More to come...
More enhancements today to our Ajax-driven newsfeeds section, a very quick and easy way to keep up on what’s happening with most of the world’s top news sites. 1) Our Ajax RSS server now automagically locates, caches, and displays the “favicon” for each site, just like your browser does in its ...
The latest enhancement to the LGF Blog Engine is found in our newsfeeds section, which now uses Ajax—a component technology of what some people are calling “Web 2.0”—to update a section of the page dynamically. The idea behind Ajax is to make web pages behave a bit more like desktop ...
Yes, another one. I’ve been on a programming binge, taking a lot of my pre-existing procedural PHP and slowly, carefully transmuting it to nice shiny object oriented code. The latest section of the LGF Blog codebase to come under the microscope is the RSS feed reader, especially on the LGF ...
LGF, Technical Info, CSS, PHP, HTML, PEAR, Google, Search, SOAP, RSS, XML
I’ve been authorized to let you know that the Little Green Footballs RSS feeds have been streamlined and improved and brought up to date with the latest demands from our fascist RSS overlords. This involved separating the feeds into two different flavors of RSS; one that includes most of the ...