FeedFriends toolbar left incubator and now available to all users. Now all the links in the feed are converted on the fly to toolbar links (with same base module that absolutizes links and helps to see those images that got corrupted otherwise). What it means is that target page is opened inside a frame and…

I have no idea why feed publishers do not care to return Last-modified header so readers can use conditional GET and 304s instead of full thing over and over again in case when feed contents don’t change. I beleive they just don’t care about RSS traffic money they spend on these absolutely useless data transfers.…

Now links in descriptions are being absolutized relative to original feed URL upon fetching. This is supposed to fix missing images and broken links which are caused by feed item being moved from original feed (preprocessed feed, then friends feed and so on). I wrote perl class that allows changing all links in HTML code…

OPML generation is fixed so I hope you’ll get correct results. You can regenerate OPML without changing the list of feeds by just clicking here. If you still have bugs, please let me know by making a comment to this post including bug description and OPML feed URL.

I’m sorry to say that but all items shared so far (all 21 of them) were lost during old item deletion process testing. Luckily only 2 of them were not mine, sorry, Dima, I hope that overall system performance will make you happy and you’ll forget those two tiny messages. P.S. I’ll be making daily…

Now XML::RSS::LibXML supports content namespace and I fixed preprocessor so it adds in-feed controls to both <description> and to <conten:encoded> so those feeds that use it will look fine once updated.

Now I got into trouble because of better parser. Just updated a parser library and it started to handle namespaces better then it did before so readers that use <content:encoded> when it exists are not showing “share” buttons anymore… Will fix from home today

Look like Alex Tew has no regrets about not mentioning my name next to animated image of MillionDollarHomePage history clearly “inspired” by my idea. My last email in our discussion about this issue wasn’t returned and Alex’s blog is getting new updates clearly dropping this issue. I hope his brother Nick who I was communicating…

I had to add DateTime::TimeZone::Alias->set( MSK => 'Europe/Moscow' ); to the code cause MSK is not recognized by DateTime::TimeZone module be dafault. More stuff to research: list of timezones – http://www.worldtimezone.com/wtz-names/timezonenames.html list of available Perl modules: http://datetime.perl.org/?Modules

I spent some time yesterday on CSS/HTML for user’s feed and friends feed and came up with the good advice to software developers, especially web developers: Do some design work as early as possible – first of all you’ll be able to show it to somebody and they will be able to judge it (nobody…