Feedmarker Blog

Phillip Keller has a nice summary of a few database schemas for a tag-enabled application. Basically, it comes down to normalized or not. I think you’re much better off normalizing to 3NF (a table for your records, a table for your tags, and a lookup table to tie them together). Here’s Feedmarker’s schema (the part [...]

Found a nice Wordpress plugin today that lets you edit posts inline using AJAX (the same way you can edit feeds/marks in Feedmarker). It’s very easy to install, just requires a tiny modification to the index.php template, and it degrades nicely on browsers that don’t have XMLHttpRequest implemented.Only one complaint, the cancel button seems to [...]

Here is some Javascript hackery some people might find useful. It’s just a hack off of Kryogenix’s Sorttable code, which is much prettier and smarter than mine.

The Kyrogenix script lets you sort HTML tables by columns. This script lets you sort lists (unordered or ordered) by either the list item value or by an attribute [...]

Another review of Feedmarker with some interesting suggetions. This one’s in Spanish, so I’ll do my best to summarize:
The author, Rookie, argues that Feedmarker is missing two big features: search and language settings.

I agree on both counts. With all the metadata (tags, rankings, descriptions) that people are entering about their feeds and bookmarks, we’re building [...]