With a couple of spare hours, I've actually published my "professional" homepage and sorted out a few more of the niggling CSS issues. And beaten the file permissions on the server into shape.
What more could people possibly want? Content? Nah, it's overrated, surely?
Well, that's what's coming next - a few pages to explain the various projects rather than just linking directly to them, and perhaps a continuation of the development of the RSS reader.
With any luck, I'll also be getting database functionality on the server pretty soon, so then there can be plenty of extra features enabled, too.
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
How hard can it be? (part 2)
Answer: not all that hard - mostly!
The feed is working quite nicely, opening up an xml file saved from the feed, reading out what I want it to read out, and outputting it as pleasantly formatted HTML. Fantastic.
Now all I need to do is to figure out how to get it to read the XML file on the server itself. That's proving tricky, and I'm not sure why: the links I'm creating to the file just don't seem to work.
(Edit: as I suspected - it's because the script to get the XML file is hosted on a different server to the one that I'm trying to pull the RSS feed from, so it's a security issue. Hmm.)
(Further edit: and the webserver that I'm using doesn't like using PHP to access files not stored on that server. Trickier & tricker. One solution would be to figure out a way of caching the feed file each evening, so that I could just read from that file instead; but I'm not quite sure how to approach that. Will require further thought, apparently.)
More news later.
The feed is working quite nicely, opening up an xml file saved from the feed, reading out what I want it to read out, and outputting it as pleasantly formatted HTML. Fantastic.
Now all I need to do is to figure out how to get it to read the XML file on the server itself. That's proving tricky, and I'm not sure why: the links I'm creating to the file just don't seem to work.
(Edit: as I suspected - it's because the script to get the XML file is hosted on a different server to the one that I'm trying to pull the RSS feed from, so it's a security issue. Hmm.)
(Further edit: and the webserver that I'm using doesn't like using PHP to access files not stored on that server. Trickier & tricker. One solution would be to figure out a way of caching the feed file each evening, so that I could just read from that file instead; but I'm not quite sure how to approach that. Will require further thought, apparently.)
More news later.
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
How hard can it be?
One of the things that I'd quite like to include on this proposed homepage of professional(-ish!) stuff is an RSS feed from this and possibly other blogs. Obviously, there are tools out there to make that easy (Feed2JS being one of them, and the one that I'm using at the moment).
But I quite like to know exactly what's going on under the hood in these things, so I'm going to have a quick go at putting together a home-grown version of it. How hard can it be, right? I get an XML file (the feed itself) and parse it. There have to be a thousand and five ways of doing that!
Optimism. What a fantastic feeling!
But I quite like to know exactly what's going on under the hood in these things, so I'm going to have a quick go at putting together a home-grown version of it. How hard can it be, right? I get an XML file (the feed itself) and parse it. There have to be a thousand and five ways of doing that!
Optimism. What a fantastic feeling!
Baby steps
The first draft of my planned "professional" home page is just about up and running. It's not much at the moment: just a page with my name, contact details, and an RSS feed from this blog, but it's a start.
The next step is to try and write my own XML parsing code for pulling in an RSS feed, rather than relying on someone else's!
Happy coding :-)
The next step is to try and write my own XML parsing code for pulling in an RSS feed, rather than relying on someone else's!
Happy coding :-)
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