August 26, 2004
One feed to unite them all
Posted by bopuc at August 26, 2004 03:35 PM
/me kicks himself for above gratuitous use of pop cultural reference.
So I finally got fed up and hacked up a PHP script that generates a single RSS 1.0 feed containing the 20 most recent entries to my weblog, photolog and links. The script is run via CRON every 10 minutes or so, and a few Apache Redirects make sure you all get this new feed now instead of the old ones.
That was serious fun. Was up until 5am on this one. :)
I must thank the past week I spent redoing and moving smartmobs.com for teaching me the wonderful ways of Apache .htaccess files. I'd never really played with them before and at first I hated 'em, especially some rewrites smartmobs.com was using ("Do not be fooled by Apache mod_rewrite. Sure it looks all nice and cool but it is Satan."), but yay. Good stuff.
Yeah, that's right. Guess where emails to webmaster at smartmobs get sent to... :D
/me does a little strut around the room.