{"id":456,"date":"2005-05-03T23:03:26-04:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T04:03:26+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/03\/other-stuff"},"modified":"2005-05-03T23:03:26-04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T04:03:26+00:00","slug":"other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2005\/05\/03\/other-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Other stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

As well as working on what I’ve started calling REx<\/a> I’ve been messing around with syndication, both in Atom and iCalendar forms.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Not quite satisfied with Dave Jacoby’s RSS feed<\/a> for Roger Ebert’s movie reviews<\/a>, I decided to roll my own that also includes the summaries from the website. It’s the first thing I’ve written from scratch<\/cite> in Python—that is, with the help of Steve Jenson’s atomfeed.py<\/code><\/a> and the built-in SGML, URL and regex libraries—and while it’s not pretty, it suits my purposes. If I thought it would be anything less than extremely fragile (mainly due to the wonky markup on Ebert’s site than anything inherent in the code) I’d probably post it… still might so people can point and laugh.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Also took some time on the weekend to write an iCalendar<\/a> translator for Allison Brown’s<\/a> performance calendar. It’s a simple little bit of Perl but took a lot longer to write than it probably should have; the RFC isn’t the easiest thing to read and there doesn’t appear to be a validator anywhere. The converted file appears to work in Mozilla Calendar<\/a>, though, and that’s good enough for me.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Finally, I’m considering converting the Sirens’<\/a> tour calendar<\/a> to hCalendar<\/a> format. I’d probably still generate the RSS and iCal feeds, since the XSLT is there already, but I’d love to deprecate them in favour of a single human- and machine-readable page.<\/p><\/div>

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