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Paul Reinheimer       8:43
did you plug funcaday yet?

funka7ron       8:53
*hides* I need to get on dat

Paul Reinheimer       8:54
Here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to bring a few copies of my book, see
They roll up nice and tight
I’m going to beat you with them
then shove them a few places, and light them on fire

I’m super excited about Funcaday, the brainchild of Paul Reinheimer and Courtney Wilson. What a cool concept - basically an electronic daily calendar for PHP functions.

The RSS feed delivery is just begging for little desktop apps and widgets. Ben Ramsey has already made one for the OS X dashboard.

Kudos to Paul and Courtney!

Okay, it looks like the parser I am using now just won’t work — it doesn’t appear to retrieve XML node attributes properly, and ATOM feeds seem to use href attributes in their <link> tags to link to stuff, as opposed to RSS/RDF which uses the contents of the tag. So I’m switching to this much newer and better XML Parser for Javascript, which closely follows the org.w3c.dom parser classes in Java. It means I’ll have to rewrite the feed parsing, but that’s really not a huge deal.

New in this version:

• Dropped use of curl and started using url.fetch() instead, so widget should work properly in Windows now.
• Added VERY simple error checking for invalid feed XML.

• RSS Viewer for Konfabulator (Beta 6)

So I’ve finally updated my old RSS Viewer widget for Konfabulator. This version has been updated to work with Konfab 2.x, and adds a couple minor features.

• RSS Viewer for Konfabulator

This is really kickass. I’m running it on my Windows desktop as we speak, and will probably be putting it on my iBook as well. I’m even motivated to fix the compatibility issues in my old RSS Viewer widget that I wrote a couple years back.

Yahoo! acquires Konfabulator - Yahoo! News:

Yahoo! Inc (YHOO.O). on Monday will announce the acquisition of Konfabulator, a Macintosh and Windows application that allows users to run mini files known as Widgets on their desktop — the same model used by Apple for its Dashboard application. Yahoo! company executives said they would also be giving Konfabulator away for free, completely doing away with the US$19.95 currently charged for the product.

(Via Yahoo! News.)