Feedmarker Blog

Remember DiggDong (the dashboard widget that lets you keep track of your Digg submissions automatically)? Well, you can now check out the source from my project repository:svn checkout http://missingmethod-projects.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/widgets/DiggDong

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Just a quick post to remind people that I’m still here! Development on Feedmarker has (obviously) been slow lately (due in large part to my new main project, Curbly.com), but I’m still making some time to tweaks things here and there and fix bugs. Now that the site is on it’s own dedicated server, making changes and improving the stability of the app is a lot easier.

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Feedmarker is back online, thanks my not-so-new friends at Slingshot Hosting (they’re also hosting Curbly.com, and doing a great job of it). We’re on a dedicated box, so look for better stability and faster download times from Feedmarker.com.

Hey everyone, Feedmarker is going to be down for a little while so I can move it to a new, improved host. My shared hosting (www.asmallorange.com) has been great but the app is outgrowing its limits. So, stay tuned and be patient, I hope to have the move completed by this weekend.

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Check out the latest project I’ve been working on with my friend Ben: Acu.mn – All your local news in one place.

Acu.mn is a local news aggregator that brings together all the news feeds for your area into one page. Right now we’re focused on the Twin Cities, but we’re adding cities all the time.

Just wanted to let everyone know I’ve made some bugfixes and improvements to the Feedmarker codebase and pushed the new revision to Rubforge.

Get it here.

Ever get tired of writing order by statements in SQL? Why can’t it be more Ruby-ish? Well, now it can:

>> puts Orderific.new('name, volume, publishers.name desc').to_s
#=> name asc, volume asc, publishers.name desc

Check it out at Snippets!

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I’ve finally gotten around to setting up Feedmarker as a proper open-source project on RubyForge. Here’s the project url. The source code is in the SVN repository, which you can check out by doing:

svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/feedmarker/trunk

I’ll warn you that the code has not been cleaned up, and installing it on your machine may be a nightmare (no migrations, no tests, etc.). But I’m working on it, and I hope other people will join in and do some of the work I haven’t been able to do.

RubyManual.org is a nicely organized, searchable documentation reference for the Ruby language (it’s about time). I cam across it this morning and put together a little bookmarklet that will let you search the manual really quicky. Just drag the following to your toolbar:

Ruby Manual Lookup

Then you can just click the bookmarklet, enter your search string, and go straight to the Ruby Manual search results. Hooray—f391e2fdf143c1049bd37831e297a218—>