I’m automatically importing a feed of my posts from our work blog into here now. I haven’t yet figured out a way to automatically add a comment saying they were originally from there yet, so until I do some of them might be a little confusing. e.g. one says “Hi. I don’t post here often”. :-)
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Importing work posts
Monday, January 26th, 2009Planet Just Scala
Sunday, January 18th, 2009After a little bit of hacking around with Yahoo Pipes I’ve created a filtered version of the Planet Scala feed. I couldn’t figure out a way to make Yahoo Pipes give me a pretty URL (which is stupid, as it gives a pretty web URL just fine), so here’s a decent-urled version of it. http://pipes.yahoo.decenturl.com/planet-just-scala
I’ll probably replace this with a quick custom script at some point when I can be bothered, but this works for now. :-)
Planet Scala: By Scala programmers, usually about Scala
Sunday, January 18th, 2009Planet Scala’s selection of feeds has always been a bit haphazard – in some cases the whole feed, in some cases a Scala specific one.
As I mentioned I was thinking of doing at the end of last year, I’m experimenting with changing this. Except in the highest non-scala : scala volume ratios, I’m switching the feeds over to provide the full feed. My impression so far is that 90% of the additional stuff acquired this way should be of general interest to Scala programmers and that the volume is not that high.
You’ll probably notice an initial spike in non-Scala content as the backlog of non-Scala posts becomes available, but this should settle down fairly rapidly.
I’ll also look into an easy way of providing a Scala-filtered RSS feed on top of this for people who don’t want the extra content.
Posting elsewhere
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008Hi all.
Sorry I’ve not been posting recently. Combination of factors. I will be back at it soon, honest.
In the meantime, if you’ve been suffering from withdrawal for my writing, feel free to check out the trampoline systems machines blog where I’ve been posting about the dark art of SQL recently.
A glorified to do list
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008I’m pretty bad about remembering stuff I need to do. At work, having an issue tracker is a really useful way of keeping track of that, so I’ve decided to emulate that at home. I’ve set up a Trac instance for stuff I need to get done, both site related and random personal projects related.
This is mostly for my own use, but feel free to add stuff to it if there are things you need me to get done. I allow anonymous ticket creation and commenting. I’ll fix that if it gets too spammy.