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17 February 2012
Life has been a bit hectic for the last couple of months, so please accept my apologies for the neglected state of this site. Today I had a couple of hours in the office without any (paying) work to do, so I finally managed to investigate a few issues:
- The format of 1x.com’s RSS feed has changed since December 2011. Most feed readers will say it is malformed, although Google Reader does not. Whatever the cause, I have updated the SWO parser so 1x.com photos are once again displayed on the Inspiration page.
- The format of Google Reader’s starred items feed has also changed since December 2011. Updated the SWO parser to account for this. I can now
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16 September 2011
Image by WordRidden
For those of you wondering what happened:
The saga began with me posting a thread in General Chat entitled “For those of us born in the 70s” which contained nothing but a link to this page which demonstrates a ‘Mario Brothers’ inspired photography idea.
A few minutes later the thread was deleted and I received a PM from John Riley saying that my link was “nonsense” (that is a direct quote, mind you) and that I should re-post it on page 573 of the ‘Another Pointless Thread’ thread.
It is worth noting at this point that the ‘Another Pointless Thread’ thread contains numerous suggestions that the…
5 September 2011
After some trial and error with Yahoo Pipes, and a refresher course in Regular Expressions, I have now added thumbnails to the ‘Best of’ links on the Inspiration page. Not sure about the size though, 50 x 50 pixels is the default size for this theme, but it seems a bit small to me. I’ll look into the possibility of making them larger.
Update: I have made the thumbnails 75 x 75 now. Much improved, I think!
28 August 2011
Apologies if I’ve accidentally pinged your blog while setting up here. All posts older than this one will be deleted before the ‘official’ launch.
