This is the first time our new dog has seen snow. He can't figure out why he keeps sliding.
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Monday, November 28, 2005
Mr. Miyagi and TDD
Today I was reading this great article on TDD. In the article Scott makes reference to the Karate Kid and how Mr. Miyagi teaches Daniel the "wax on, wax off" technique. Later in the day I found this article. Seems actor Pat Morita has passed away. He was great in his role in Karate Kid and other acting gigs. Sayônara Mr. Miyagi.
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Friday, November 25, 2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
As is tradition with my family, we attended a movie, and for the past few years it has been a Harry Potty movie, and this year was the Goblet of Fire. Why, I'm not sure. I haven't read all the books, I'm in book 3, last few chapters. But my kids love it and they have read all the books. I know when I've read a book prior to the movie I have a certain level of expectation from the movie and I'm usually disappointed. Since I haven't read the Goblet of Fire yet, but I expected to see the same thing as the others. But it wasn't.
You can definitely see the maturity of the actors finally coming through. You can also see the directors are getting comfortable with the story and the expectation. The movie was great. This time around it was all about the clumsy Harry, Ron and Hermione. They actually had substance and there were a lot more supporting roles that played a bigger part. The story seemed to have breadth the others didn't.
So, our usual Thanksgiving movie was better than I expected. But, even if it wasn't I was having fun with the family.
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You can definitely see the maturity of the actors finally coming through. You can also see the directors are getting comfortable with the story and the expectation. The movie was great. This time around it was all about the clumsy Harry, Ron and Hermione. They actually had substance and there were a lot more supporting roles that played a bigger part. The story seemed to have breadth the others didn't.
So, our usual Thanksgiving movie was better than I expected. But, even if it wasn't I was having fun with the family.
Categories: movies
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Creating an RSS Feed with IceRocket
First you want to go to this URL http://rss.icerocket.com/. Once you're there create a free account. It only takes about 5 minutes and then you're on your way.
Start with their 3 step process. First, create a channel. This is basically the details on your RSS feed. The channel link is basically where you want someone to go when they click on your feed link. I just choose the main URL like http://www.thomallen.com/blog.
Next, you will want to add content. What I did was take the first paragraph of a press release and put that in the Entry Summary field. in the Entry Link I added the URL to the actual press release. This way when the reader clicks on the entry link they will be taken to the main thomallen.com site.
The last step is to publish your RSS feed. You can do a couple of things here. The first is to host the actual XML on your server. This requires you to upload the file via FTP. What I would recommend at first is to let IceRocket host the feed. They give you a URL that basically generates the RSS (XML) on the fly. In the future when your feed gets larger or you want to customize it more, you should think about hosting it on your own server.
IceRocket provides an XML button to add to your site which allows someone to add the RSS feed to their reader. That's about all there is to it. Then, every time you add new content, you just log into IceRocket, add the Entry Summary and the URL to the full page and then save. The next time someone refreshes their reader your new post will be available.
The whole process took me about 15 minutes from start to finish. If you are in the market to create an RSS feed from content that isn't related to a blog, this is a great solution.
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Start with their 3 step process. First, create a channel. This is basically the details on your RSS feed. The channel link is basically where you want someone to go when they click on your feed link. I just choose the main URL like http://www.thomallen.com/blog.
Next, you will want to add content. What I did was take the first paragraph of a press release and put that in the Entry Summary field. in the Entry Link I added the URL to the actual press release. This way when the reader clicks on the entry link they will be taken to the main thomallen.com site.
The last step is to publish your RSS feed. You can do a couple of things here. The first is to host the actual XML on your server. This requires you to upload the file via FTP. What I would recommend at first is to let IceRocket host the feed. They give you a URL that basically generates the RSS (XML) on the fly. In the future when your feed gets larger or you want to customize it more, you should think about hosting it on your own server.
IceRocket provides an XML button to add to your site which allows someone to add the RSS feed to their reader. That's about all there is to it. Then, every time you add new content, you just log into IceRocket, add the Entry Summary and the URL to the full page and then save. The next time someone refreshes their reader your new post will be available.
The whole process took me about 15 minutes from start to finish. If you are in the market to create an RSS feed from content that isn't related to a blog, this is a great solution.
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