I never seem to find a theme that I like 100%. And since I have some modest HTML and web design skills I took it upon myself to create this theme. It is very green, and reminds me a lot of the Django web site’s color scheme. I have decided however, that this is just the beginning. Over the course of this year I will incrementally improve this theme until, hopefully, it is one that I really like.
I’ve been playing with the Lifestream plugin for wordpress lately, and I’ve found that it is okay. Of the three feeds I’m using, I only had to modify the code for 2 of them to get it to display as I wished. I think I may end up writing my own feed parser to handle this. Anyway the goal of this plugin is to inject a little bit of life to this site. Hopefully everyone will find some interesting things on it when they visit.
Alright, time to work on web project number 2. Also say “Hello” to Brad over at http://plasma.notsoevil.net!
Thief! I’m literally working on a similar thing with planet on my site. Although, I’m trying to keep away the facebook like status update feeds and focus on things people might care about. And for various reasons, I’m pursuing a fluid960 layout. Bonus: planet-venus supports django templates!
I wouldn’t recommend writing your own feed parser, it’s an exercise in insanity. Mark Pilgrim wrote a pretty good python universal feed parser. As an example of the insanity, consider javascript embedded in style tags.
PHP has some nice utilities to make feed parsing simple. I wasn’t necessarily planning on writing the actual xml parsing, more just the pulling events from a feed an throwing them into the database. Lifestream is nice, but I dislike the way the extensions work.
Anyhow, I thought links from the web, videos I like and the occasional status update from Identica would be interesting to some.