Hi all,
I’ve asked to be removed from planet Haskell. There’s just too little Haskell related content on this blog these days for me to think it’s really appropriate for me to be on it. If you want to keep reading my blog, please subscribe directly.
Category Archives: Admin
Planet Scala
As you might have noticed, I’m sometimes a very angry person. :-)
One of the things that has gotten me particularly angry recently is the shockingly poor quality of aggregation sites for Scala. There’s Artima Scala Buzz, which I’ve chronicled my irritation with before, and a new Scala driven ad farm which if you read the mailing lists you’ve probably noticed.
The particular reason this makes me so angry is that setting up a good aggregator is really damn easy. Planet planet is very simple to set up (it took me maybe half an hour of tinkering) and produces consistently good results. Planet Haskell is basically a vanilla setup of it and works very well.
So, as usual, I end up porting something from Haskell to Scala. Say hello to Planet Scala
A reminder of how WordPress handles RSS feeds
Those of you who read my blog for the programming content might have been rather surprised to learn how to make parmesan and tomato polenta yesterday. Similarly those of you who have come here from “Playing with your food” are probably thinking “What on earth is a Scala and how do I cook it?”
Well, fear not. Those of you who lie in the set programmers ^ cooks need not view the content you don’t care about. They’re set up in different categories, and wordpress allows you to view just a single category or to subscribe to a feed for a specific category. The category specific pages are linked on the left, and if you add “feed” to the URL for a category you will get an RSS feed that covers only that particular one. For example, the feed for programming is http://www.drmaciver.com/category/programming/feed
If you do subscribe to a particular category, I’d appreciate it if you also subscribe to the “Admin” category. I’ll use it to make announcements that are important to readers in general, including the addition of new categories which you might be interested in.
New Blog
I’m in the process of aggregating all my old blogs together and moving them here. I realised that there a bunch of things I wanted to do that required my own site, and posts I wanted to write that didn’t really fit into my existing blog categories. Also, I really hated the name of my programming blog but didn’t feel I could change it, so this gives me an excuse to break with that.
So, here we are. I’ll be using wordpress as a general CMS for now. If I’m unhappy with it I might switch, but after some initial teething difficulties on the import it seems pretty acceptable. Certainly better than blogspot’s setup.
Expect the same old ranting about programming from me, an occasional post about food, and hopefully writing on a wider variety of topics.