September, 11, 2004 archives

jeff barr, of syndic8, is tackling the update-notification distribution problem. (using mod_pubsub.)

sam ruby blogged about feedmesh, an idea for handling the sharing of ping notifications among some of the current collectors.

i probably just missed this when it was mentioned earlier, but you can visit a url like http://yaqs.com/jim winstead and it uses the path info to redirect to the appropriate search results on the yahoo! search site.

it is just an internet-draft, but here is a proposal for bounce address tag verification, which could eventually stem the tide of bounces for messages you did not actually send.

with a pubsub client, you can now get the feed of pings from http://localhost:8000/kn/pings. there's no end-user interface on it, but you can use the subscribe.py client from the mod_pubsub distribution.

this may change, or go away. right now, it only includes results from pings, not the result of aggregated update information.

i have taken this down. the thought from people that know is that something like xmpp or a custom protocol will be more appropriate.

joe johnston explains why php is more popular than mod_perl for web development. the short answer is that they solve different problems.

i've been thinking about this with regard to python recently. i'd love to learn more python, and use it in the web space, but mod_python is more like mod_perl than php, and when i'm developing web stuff, my thinking is matches the php model closer than the mod_(python|perl) model.

netflix now provides rss feeds, including new releases, your queue, and recommendations. (like the last link, via jeremy zawodny.)