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Aug. 24th, 2005 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aMy programming time tends to come in bursts of inspiration followed by fits of programming.
Last night I had the inspiration to really update the RPGnet Press & News section by rewriting all of my RSS feed software and turning the RPGnet news page into a database-driven, categorized RSS feed aggregator. A first cut of it is now done, and somewhere over a dozen feeds are available on four pages at RPGnet, starting here:
http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/press.phtml
There's more to do. I think I need to abstract out my category definitions so that I can treat different ones in different (but general) manners. I also need to abstract all of my code out into a library; I was sloppy instead when programming because I couldn't see entirely how it was going to come together.
I also want to see if there's some way to create consolidated category pages, with each of them interweaving the RSS news from all the different sources, but that's unfortunately somewhat troublesome because a lot of pages don't include dates on their RSS items (which astounds me).
Oh, and I need to better deal with the Atom feeds at some time.
But still, it's a start, and the RPGnet Press & News section is already much more useful than it has been in years.
Last night I had the inspiration to really update the RPGnet Press & News section by rewriting all of my RSS feed software and turning the RPGnet news page into a database-driven, categorized RSS feed aggregator. A first cut of it is now done, and somewhere over a dozen feeds are available on four pages at RPGnet, starting here:
http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/press.phtml
There's more to do. I think I need to abstract out my category definitions so that I can treat different ones in different (but general) manners. I also need to abstract all of my code out into a library; I was sloppy instead when programming because I couldn't see entirely how it was going to come together.
I also want to see if there's some way to create consolidated category pages, with each of them interweaving the RSS news from all the different sources, but that's unfortunately somewhat troublesome because a lot of pages don't include dates on their RSS items (which astounds me).
Oh, and I need to better deal with the Atom feeds at some time.
But still, it's a start, and the RPGnet Press & News section is already much more useful than it has been in years.