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Cooking With Corbies

Just wrote up some MagpieRSS recipes to answer a few of the frequently asked Magpie questions. Check out the MagpieRSS Cookbook. Hopefully followed by even greater amounts of documentation.

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Conditional GET with LWP & Perl

I was arguing recently that implementing a conditional GET with LWP is trivial and there was no reason why someone wouldn’t support it. I assumed there must be a dozen examples of how to do this....

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MagpieRSS and content:encoded

For the person who seems to be frantically searching (lots of search referers) for how to use MagpieRSS with mod_content and content:encoded, here is how: $rss = fetch_rss( $url ); foreach (...

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Parsing Upcoming Data with Magpie

idly.org: With a lot of help from Magpie RSS, I have whipped up a personal listing page of events from Upcoming.org. Cool! After all parsing event bearing RSS is what Magpie was original written for...

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Collating RSS Items by Publish/Modified Date

Jarno who says we shouldn’t use the timestamp in RSS feeds to sort the entries, also invites us to disagree. And I disagree. People keep forgetting that RSS pre-dates blogging, and is used for other...

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How to make a patch file

This post is in the “things which should have been easy for someone to find with Google but aren’t” department, because sometimes you’d like to be able to tell someone DTFG, but you can’t. (previous...

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PEAR: No release with state equal to: ‘stable’ found for …

Trying to use: pear install Some_Package but getting No release with state equal to: 'stable' found for Some_Package? Some people will tell you to try: pear install -f Some_Package (i.e. force install)...

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Linux.com: Add RSS feeds to your Web site using MagpieRSS

Good introductory article, covers most beginning Magpie questions http://programming.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/24/1337210

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Drawing lines in JavaScript

Very clever http://www.p01.org/articles/DHTML_techniques/Drawing_lines_in_JavaScript/

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Many-to-Many: wikiHow to Open Content

Sweet! I loved eHow, and how to’s in general. http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/07/04/wikihow_to_open_content.php

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Blue Anarchy Sea Collective

How to be a pirate http://www.blueanarchy.org/

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Boing Boing: Current TV’s online storytelling guide launches (with Xeni)

good howtos for citizen journalists on using video http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/12/current_tvs_online_s.html

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