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Creating RSS Feeds (Part 2 of 3)
In the previous part, I showed the main loop to grab the "interesting bits" from the HTML of my Sporting News' BLOG. Let me dig into this a little more. On the BLOG, a typical entry looks like this:
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Creating RSS Feeds (Part 1 of 3)
I have a separate BLOG on sports at The Sporting News . However, if you wanted to point your RSS feed reader (say, Bloglines or Google Reader ) to that BLOG, you'd be out of luck. For some reason, Sporting News doesn't…
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Hello Tar J
Yes, I'm familiar with tar . But guess what? Over the past few days while putting together this site, I encountered tar's j switch for the very first time (e.g. tar jxf site.tar.bz2). This enables bzip compression and…
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Puzzles
I am working on a jigsaw puzzle . There are 1000 pieces in this puzzle, and it's titled "Sleigh Ride". It's been largely abandoned by my wife and daughter, because we're now down to the hard parts.
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It's About Time
I've been wanting to write a technology BLOG for quite some time. This is it. And it's about time. Welcome to Rick's Tech Talk, a BLOG about computer and programming technology, working in technology, and anything else…