Scripting News

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:44:23 GMT

Coffee Mug Prefs: "Since many aggregators have unique ways to link to their coffee-mug functions, we give you a place to enter a string that tells feeds.scripting.com what to link to from its mugs."

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 20:23:24 GMT

Changes to coffee mug prefs.

Mon, 05 Jan 2004 00:24:10 GMT

Jake Savin: "Update Manila.root to get the new feature."

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 20:29:39 GMT

Nick Bradbury: "Shareware developers are losing enormous amounts of money to piracy."

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 20:39:28 GMT

ComputerWorld: "Director for a very long time has had a proprietary scripting language called Lingo," said Miriam Geller, Macromedia director of product management for Director. "With this release, we're adding JavaScript. It's important because now people who are coming to Director don't have to learn a proprietary scripting language. They can use the skills they already have."

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:30:49 GMT

Will bloggers cover the Iowa caucuses?

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:25:59 GMT

Joshua Marshall: "I'm gearing up to go to New Hampshire later this month."

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:57:27 GMT

A solution to a long-standing, vexing problem?

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:14:30 GMT

How to get OPML from aggregators. Specific howto's for 12 popular aggregators, I can easily add more, if people post instructions.

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:27:11 GMT

Susan Kitchens is blogging yesterday's Mars landing.

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 13:03:01 GMT

The latest pictures from Mars.

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 10:18:19 GMT

Early Sunday morning on WBUR is spectacularly great. BBC and Morning Edition. None of the inane stuff like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me or Car Talk, or the sports show with the Charles Osgood imitator. But Sunday morning BBC is very nice with coffee and aggregator. Like a trip to Britain and its commonwealth, with an intelligent friend, with a British accent.

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 10:10:47 GMT

It's nice to be moving in RSS-land again. I have another goodie to roll out shortly, and then a few more tomorrow.

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 09:55:37 GMT

Scoble explains why RSS kicks butt. I totally agree about full vs excerpts. If you're going to do excerpts, please write summaries and publish those in your feed descriptions. It sucks when a summary ends in mid-sentence just as I'm beginning to get interested.

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 10:29:57 GMT

Another pet peeve is a low-level programming issue. There's no need to say isPermaLink="true" on the guid element in RSS 2.0 because true is its default value. In a typical feed this wastes about 2.2 percent of the bandwidth used by the feed.