Reboot 9.0 has been announced and is now in the planning phase. As usual, everyone is invited to participate in putting together two days of great talks and conversations.
This year it will be on the 31st of May and 1st of June, as usual in Kedelhallerne in Copenhagen.
See you there!
Sam Ruby: Of course, I would create the consolidated feed using Venus.
It’s really quite simple:
Through my use of Venus for e.g. Planet SF, I started using Bazaar, for which I created an Atom feed generator, the code for which is also stored in a Bazaar repository, which of course provides a feed and is being picked up by e.g. Sam, who in turn maintains another Bazaar repository that provides another feed, that gets picked up by my Venus installation, that then generates a global feed with all the changes — once.
Did I mention that I think Bazaar hits a sweet spot?
Inspired — again — by Sam Ruby, I have begun using Bazaar for source control. My first use case was creating a branch of Venus to implement a cache expunge mechanism. Also, I think Bazaar hits a sweet spot regarding ease of use for personal as well as distributed development, and once the prerequisites are in place, it’s easy to set up.
While doing that I learned some more about Python, and found out I wanted to be able to subscribe to the changes in a Bazaar branch.
Starting out with Sam’s tarify.cgi and Joe Gregorio’s sparklines as working examples I have managed to create a simple Python-script for generating an Atom feed: bzr-feed. You can of course subscribe to the changes!
On the TODO is creating RDF output with DOAP, but I think I might need to figure out a way to store and report more information than is currently available in the Bazaar repository.
To use bzr-feed, you will need something like the following in the .htaccess file in the directory containing the branches:
<FilesMatch ".*\\.cgi">
Options ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</FilesMatch>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule (.*).atom$ bzr-feed.cgi?dir=$1
As a bonus, while working on bzr-feed, I realized that Apache apparently supports If-Modified-Since out of the box for CGI scripts as long as the Last-Modified header is sent (though ETag support still needs to be implemented separately). Nice.
The Danish blogosphere is currently conducting a survey of its readers.
Called BlogTjek 07, it originated at Blogforum2 in October of 2006, and aims to find out who the readers of Danish blogs are — and what they aren’t…
If you are a Danish speaking blog reader, please take 2 minutes to fill out the questionnaire.
The Danish blogosphere thanks you! :-)
Flickr has announced a new addition to the API — Machine Tags:
# Wait, aren’t machine tags just RDF?
No, machine tags are not RDF; they could play RDF on television, though.
See also :
weblog.scifihifi.com/2005/08/05/meta-tags-the-poor-mans-rdf
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# Huh, what is RDF ?
RDF Describes Flickr. That’s really all you need to know about RDF.
Of course it’s not quite there, using fixed namespace prefixes instead of URIs, but it’s close enough.
Now, where’s that list of canonical namespace prefixes?