RSS Feed to dasBlog Content Converter.
Greg Hughes once had a LiveJournal Blog and the only remnant of his blog was an RSS Feed/Archive. Now that he runs dasBlog he wanted to move his old content foward into dasBlog. So, we googled a bit and couldn’t find a tool that would take an RSS (2.0) feed as input and put the entries into dasBlog.
So we made one over lunch, and here it is: RSStoDasBlog.zip (219.29 KB)
Greg Hughes once had a LiveJournal Blog and the only remnant of his blog was an RSS Feed/Archive. Now that he runs dasBlog he wanted to move his old content foward into dasBlog. So, we googled a bit and couldn’t find a tool that would take an RSS (2.0) feed as input and put the entries into dasBlog.
So we made one over lunch, and here it is: RSStoDasBlog.zip (219.29 KB)
Use it like this by pointing it to the RSS file and your (local) dasBlog content folder. It will create all the needed dayentry.xml files for you to upload to your remote blog. It will also (I think) take an http:// url to an RSS file and could be used to (possible as a service?) steal RSS and mirror them in dasBlog. Thanks to Jerry (Chris) Maguire’s RSS Framework that showed up first in Google and saved me the time of running XSD.exe on an RSS XML schema. Apparently he has even newer stuff on his site. It’s got a few more moving parts than I think it needs to, but it did the job with a few changes that I marked with my initials; SDH.
RSStoDasBlog.exe MyRssFile.xml “C:\documents and settings\whatever\dasblog\content”
Use it like this by pointing it to the RSS file and your (local) dasBlog content folder. It will create all the needed dayentry.xml files for you to upload to your remote blog. It will also (I think) take an http:// url to an RSS file and could be used to (possible as a service?) steal RSS and mirror them in dasBlog. Thanks to Jerry (Chris) Maguire’s RSS Framework that showed up first in Google and saved me the time of running XSD.exe on an RSS XML schema. Apparently he has even newer stuff on his site. It’s got a few more moving parts than I think it needs to, but it did the job with a few changes that I marked with my initials; SDH.
Year: 2004
Snap those Meeting Notes
A lot cheaper and a lot more portable than those big electronic whiteboard. Another way to get some value out of my Sony DSC-T1
Passed along from David, a pointer to ClearBoard. It cleans up pix you’ve snapped of whiteboards or flipcharts, turning them into relatively clean graphic images reasonable for putting on a team website to augment meeting notes.
Looks like a nice application of edge-finding and contrast-enhancing. Nothing that probably couldn’t be done in PhotoShop or whatever, but this does it automatically and quickly. Simple. Smart.
Google Globe..
If you’ve got the data, flaunt it.
Over on Dan Gilmor s eJournal there s a video of the Google Globe , an Earth rotating which shows the relative numbers of queries to the Google site in various parts of the world . Apparently Google showed this off at the D Conference earlier this week. We re not sure if it s really cool or downright creepy. If we were an alien invasion team sent to take over earth, we d first index all the human knowledge with a search engine then we d eventually eat them.
[Engadget]
The Simpsons: The Map of Springfield.
Something on the lighter side
The Simpsons: The Map of Springfield.
This is so funny I was literally crying. Seriously, spend some time exploring.
History of Unix
My Unix experiences started with Unix V on a DEC Vax system in the early 1980s.Wish I’d done a better job of maintaining and extending those early skills.
Here. An amazing timeline!
Another one of the Things the Web Is Great For
Another great thing, of course, is all those clever folks helping you find things worth knowing about. Thank you AKMA for another resource I didn’t know about.
One of the Things the Web Is Great For.
I like online dictionaries, since much of the information I seek in a dictionary appears only in the heaviest, bulkiest, least portable and convenient sources. I d long relied on Dictionary.com, but if you have the bandwidth, Webster s Online tops everything else I ve seen.
Of course, if you just want the correct spelling or a simple definition, there s no need to call up all the overhead from Webster s. Webster s is for browsing and reveling more than elegant simplicity (though there must be a way of making the output from Webster s more elegant, without aggravating its bandwidth load).
Monkeying Around With Text
Looks like a useful addition to the toolkit.
Monkeying Around With Text. Courtesy of my friend Marjolein, the ActiveWords queen, here’s a wonderful little tool that saves more time than you can hope for: TextMonkey, from Boxer Software.TextMonkey strips away all the formatting rubbish that accrues when you move something from an… [LOOSE wire]
The truth about RFPs
I spend way too much time in conversations like these.
Responding to RFPs.
Very very funny :o)
“So, let s say I build houses and someone says.. Hey, wanna come and build me a house?
I say Damn Straight Brother what do you need?
They say Well, I really want blue walls how much will that cost?
I say Hmm.. well, I need to know more about the house you need how many floors, how big, will you need a basement? How many doors?
They say Well, you should know that s not important. What I really need is wood shingles. Now knowing what you know how much will the house cost? And don t try to screw me because I m going to hold you to it and I also have 50 other house builders bidding for the work
I say Um let s go with $250,000
They say Wow, that s a lot. Could you justify that based on my requirements?
I say Well, it s the blue paint that made all the difference… [Joel from Canada via SoulSoup]
The Personal Petabyte, The Exnterprise Exabyte from Jim Gray
This is a big powerpoint file. On the other, and more important, hand it contains some fascinating ruminations about what some key trends in performance improvement in storage technology and network speeds portend for us as knowledge workers and inhabitants of a digital world. Jim Gray is one of the supersmart folks at Microsoft Research who is thinking a few years out about the world we will all be inhabiting soon. Worth the time to look at and think about.
Jim Gray: The Personal Petabyte, The Exnterprise Exabyte (PowerPoint). [Hack the Planet]
Dropping the Register from my subscriptions
I agree, I’ve just unsubscribed from the Register feed as well. Besides finding little worth reading there, I find a headline only feed to be pretty useless anyway
Harvard man loses 3,000 weblogs | The Register. Dave Winer popularized Netscape’s RDF syndication format, which has since splintered into nine incompatible formats.
This is just troll bait.
I’m unsubscribing to the register. The news there has gone tabloid. Obliviously they’re after traffic for ads. Wankers.
[Steve Hooker: cyberSaps business]