Comments on: Now with extra green! http://notsoevil.net/2010/03/now-with-extra-green/ I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:34:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: john http://notsoevil.net/2010/03/now-with-extra-green/comment-page-1/#comment-44 john Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:49 +0000 http://john.notsoevil.net/?p=61#comment-44 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. 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.

]]> By: pwnguin http://notsoevil.net/2010/03/now-with-extra-green/comment-page-1/#comment-41 pwnguin Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:53:27 +0000 http://john.notsoevil.net/?p=61#comment-41 Thief! I'm literally working on a similar thing with <a href="http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/" rel="nofollow">planet</a> on my <a href="http://pwnguin.net/planet" rel="nofollow">site</a>. 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 <em>fluid</em>960 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 <a href="http://feedparser.org/docs/" rel="nofollow">pretty good python universal feed parser</a>. As an example of the insanity, consider <a href="http://feedparser.org/docs/html-sanitization.html#advanced.sanitization.why" rel="nofollow">javascript embedded in style tags</a>. 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.

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