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The state of the union is strong.

January 28, 2008 - 10:34

- Tax Return - Family Guy - DRM - Lost - RSS

What a Federal evening it is. The State of the Union is on in the background (err, upper right hand corner) and I just finished my 2007 taxes. Hopefully that bling will be deposited by early next week so I can get my Mac Air, it's been wayyyy too long since I've had a viable laptop option in my life.

Let's see, what's going on? How about a State of the Seth Address? Let's limit it to the past few days opposed to the past year...let's also limit it too super cool topics such as web design, video games, and technology in general...ha, or not.

-I bought the Family Guy short movie, Blue Harvest the other day...I only got it because of the "Digital Copy", as I am still without an Xbox360, and therefore a DVD player. It's definitely more like a long episode then a movie, weighing in at a modest 48 minutes. You know what I just realized, I think the "Digital Copy" was downloaded from iTunes opposed to copied from the 2nd disc included in the box. That is kind of interesting. Hmmm, I might be wrong, because I don't know if that makes total sense, if it was downloaded, it must definitely have something to do with the DRM scheme used for this sort of thing. Either way, I really hope this idea catches on, asking consumers to buy multiple formats of the same content when it's so cheap to distribute a multi format version is practically a mortal sin, which as we all know sends people to hell.

-LOST THURSDAY, so excited. I can not wait to see what happens with that helicopter...remember Charlie saying that it "wasn't Penny" right before he finally died? Who is it then? What is going to happen? I don't even want to talk about this right now, I get way too excited.

-"It's not your 21st birthday unless you puke"...correct, ask my cousin who I took out for his 21st birthday this past Saturday.

-I created an RSS feed for my blog. It was pretty straight forward, as I created a PHP page to create an XML page of blog content. I still need to add the code to call this function to the "submit" for when I post a blog, but besides that, I think it works well. Please subscribe to my feed and tell me if there are any issues.

-Alright, theres more, a good amount more, but just not for you :-(

In closing, a happy birthday to the world greatest mom!


Good night.

Splash 6.633

December 16, 2006 - 4:18

- rss - splash

This version of splash is being used as current index.
Improvements:
-first 3 RSS feeds are displayed for each RSS feed source, the rest of the feeds for that source are being put into a DIV with visibility that is, at first hidden, with an option to display.

-CCL DIV is now displaying properly

Splash 6.632

December 16, 2006 - 12:39

- rss - splash

* in Sandbox

added following elements to RSS feed array:
-feedimg : this column contains the graphic for the RSS feed. I am pulling it out of the URL tags. Due to my my limited knowledge of RSS feeds, I am currently grabbing whatever image appears between the URL tags, which from what I have noted thus far, always falls between the CHANNEL tag and the first ITEM tag. I was disappointed to learn that not all RSS feeds link to "feed image". The script works regardless of whether or not "feed image" is present. Currently, I am unsure whether or not I will either choose to use only RSS feeds that have a "feed image", in the name of consistency; or if I will use some feeds without a "feed image", in the name of content. I believe I will be able to find the type of content I want fed through the use of feeds that have a "feed image". Additionally, I am hoping that a feed without an image is the exception, not the rule.

Splash 6.631

December 16, 2006 - 15:1

- rss - splash

*in Sandbox

After a small struggle, I am successfully adding a RSS feeds Channel Title to the feed. At first glance, I believed this task would not be very difficult; but the way I am parsing the XML Document (RSS feed) presented some obstacles in choosing the correct title, and then displaying only the correct title with the corresponding feed. I ended up getting more familiar with different approaches PHP offers in regards to parsing XML documents, but in the end, I stuck with a heavily modified version of the original parsing script. I am now passing an array of RSS feeds from my parsing script to the calling page. I am hopping that this approach will offer the most flexibility with displaying RSS feeds in multiple locations, as any particular page would demand. The array of arrays (array feeds[] holds multiple feed[] arrays) contains information about a feeds source and corresponding link/title/date, future versions would possibly contain feeds source image/etc. My next step is to clean up the code and to modify the appearance as well as number of feeds displayed.

RSS Feeds : update

December 12, 2006 - 13:37

- Splash - RSS

The solution definitely does not require MySQL, rather, a multidimensional array.

RSS feeds

December 11, 2006 - 9:12

- Splash - RSS

I'm currently working on adding some RSS feeds from other sites to my splash site. The code isn't in the sandbox yet, but it shouldn't be too long before I can get some beta examples on the Splash page currently being displayed in the sandbox. Ideally, I was looking to write the RSS aggregator code myself using PHP and MySQL. After searching high and far on the Internet, I decided that the two practical options I was willing to consider where, a) use some scripts already written such as MagpieRSS or b) use the code in a tutorial, such as PHPBuilder.com's "Reading RSS feeds in PHP Parts 1 & 2" and modify it to fit my needs. I choose the latter, the tutorial does a decent job explaining the steps, and this isn't isn't a project I have a ton of time to put into at this moment. I think that ultimately I will come up with a good solution as well as some good knowledge on one approach to displaying RSS feeds.

The next step will obviously be to create my own RSS feeds from blog and picture album posts.

Besides that, I am almost ready to transfer the hosting of this site to another hosting company. Among many reasons for this change was the fact that this move will most likely solve the issues I am having with uploading files to the server, which will then allow me to post pictures in Blog posts. Once that all happens I think I will finally be ready to post some Blogs about more than my boring splash page! But until then... enjoy my sloppy/broken tag cloud, photo album previews that don't link to any photo albums, and overall boring user interface :-)