15
Mar
2005
Converting Feeds to Feedburner
I have just swiched over to using FeedBurner for distribution of my RSS and ATOM feed. This looks quite interesting. Getting it working took a bit of fiddling though, with Feedburner at one point telling my my feed was eating itsself (recursive reference).
The trick is that you need to let Feedburner know when you update your feeds, however at the same time redirect any requests that are made for your original source file to the new Feedburner url. The problem being that Feedburner needs to access the original url for its source of information. My original attempt was just to add a bunch of lines to my .htaccess file so that all requests for the old urls got redirected to Feedburner instead, as below.
Redirect temp /markallanson.net/weblog/atom.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/Markallansonnet
Redirect temp /markallanson.net/weblog/index.rdf http://feeds.feedburner.com/Markallansonnet
Redirect temp /markallanson.net/weblog/index.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/Markallansonnet
Now, Feedburner was configured to use my Atom feed as it's data source. The redirect was causing problems. The answer to this problem was simpler than I originally thought. Make my MovableType Atom template simply write to a brand new url, and make Feedburner consume the new URL. Redirects for the old ones will continue to be redirected to Feedburner which pulls new content from the new source.
5
Mar
2005
Nokia 6630 + mReader + Plasma
I took ownership of a new Nokia 6630 phone this week. So far I haven't been able to find anything worth complaining about. Thankfully the memory card format remains compatible with the SD card reader on my notebook (thanks to the supplied card-extender).
I can also happily report that both mReader and Mark's Plasma both work without any problems on on the Nokia 6630, so go ahead and download them both. The performance of Marks Plasma is still relatively slow when running in full resolution, however when running in quarter resolution, it runs smooth enough to get the idea of what it should be looking like. I might try rewriting this application either natively for Symbian S60, or might try tweaking the algorithm to make it run faster.
1
Mar
2005
Oh this is sweet, this is very sweet.
Someone has come up with a Windows XP shell extension that allows you to use your gmail account as an online storage device with full drag & drop functionality within explorer.
