Scott Yang's Playground

Google: You can now download the latest 2000 items from Google Reader for offline reading, thanks to Google Gears. Having worked on a web-based application for the last 6 years, I have to say that off-line support is one single most requested feature which means there is still a huge desktop/offline market. An online/offline feed [...]

I have just released Trackback ‘em All 0.1. It is basically an RSS/Atom feed to pingbacks/trackbacks converter. It fetches a list of RSS/Atom feeds, scan through the entries, and send pingback/trackback to all external links in the feed entries. I have actually been using it for a few months already. It basically: Speeds up your [...]

Just uploaded a small WordPress plugin, URL Absolutifier, that converts relative links and image sources in WordPress RSS/Atom feeds into absolute URL. For example, from <a href="/code/url-absolutifier">URL Absolutifier</a> to <a href="http://scott.yang.id.au/code/url-absolutifier">URL Absolutifier</a> It was written because (1) I like to use relative URL when I write my blog posts (2) feed should not contain relative [...]

Via Slashdot, Google has a new “Web 2.0″ application pre-released to the public — Google Reader beta, a heavily Ajaxified RSS reader, in the field against other popular aggregators like Bloglines or Rojo. It has a nice very-Gmail-like interface, with short-cut keys like j for next unread message, and k for the previous one! Must [...]

About feed2html.py is an open source/free source command line tool that takes a RSS/RDF/Atom news feed, and converts it into HTML documents (or other text documents using templates). It is developed in Python (2.3+ required), and it requires the universal feed parser to be installed separately. It can take input from an URL, a local [...]