Monthly Archives: September 2008

New Theme

I’m currently using the Aeros theme, with a custom background photo of mine. The theme is very slim and well built, very easy to edit.
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Plugin Release: XSLT RSS

Contradictory to my earlier post I have created a new plug in and added it to this site. This plugin creates a new widget for aggregating rss feeds. Unlike the built in widget this allows full control over the feed’s appearance via XSL templates.

Read more and download via the XSLT RSS page
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Thailand Photos

Finally after a four month delay I’m uploading the rest of my Thailand photos…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jixor/

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Google Chrome Links

Personally I’m not exactly blown away by the browser, its an interesting piece of software but I’ll be sticking with Firefox for some time yet.
Really well researched article goes through Googles lead up to releasing the browser:
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/09/google-chrome.html
Lifehacker’s summary of Chrome’s hidden “about:” pages:
http://lifehacker.com/5045164/google-chromes-full-list-of-special-about-pages
Or Google’s http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-chromes-about-pages.html
Lifehacker article goes through Firefox plugins to enable some similar functionallity [...]

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Personal Aggregation Engine

I’ll be releasing the source code for my “personal aggregation engine” once I get enough time to tidy it up and add documentation. It uses xsl translations, caches feeds, reformats dud feeds, and there is a feed masher component.
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Beta Release – DeviantART Feed

This is what I use to power the deviantart feed on my ‘Personal Aggregation Engine’. This PHP5 script scrapes your deviantart gallery to generate a simple rss feed, with thumbnails. Read about it and download via the DeviantART Feed page. I must however point out that I’m uncertain of DeviantART’s stance towards the use of [...]

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