Putting the band back together
It’s hard to believe Feed on Feeds hasn’t had a release since December 2004! Since then I’ve been mainly working on other things, but now… I’M BACK. I’ve rewritten almost all of FoF, blatantly cheating by making use of the best free components out there, like SimplePie, Prototype, and IE7. I’m almost ready for some kind of public showing, probably first a hosted demo, and then working code in SVN, then I’m thinking there have been enough changes that it deserves to be released as Feed on Feeds 0.5. Right now I’ve got multi-user going, I’ve merged the frames and non-frames views, added tagging, rudimentary keyboard access, and (hopefully) just the right amount of Ajaxy goodness. The old simplicity is still there, too.
I’m also in the process of moving the project from SourceForge to the brand new Google Code. What the heck, let’s see if their stuff is anything.
So watch this space for news!
So, does this mean that maybe we’ll get to a point where we can backup and restore the FoF database without errors? My fingers are crossed… and a bit tired after doing my second server migration this year (don’t ask).
I’ve never tried to backup or restore mine, but I have heard that complaint before. If it’s the same problem, it’s because some of the columns (’read’) are unfortunately named. If you turn on enough switches in your export to quote and escape everything you should be OK, but I agree it is a needless annoyance. This problem should be fixed in the new one, sort of by accident.
The short version: Exporting from 3.x and importing to 4.1 didn’t work, so I simply copied the directories in question (I run two FoF installs) from /var/lib/mysql while the service was turned off. Oddly enough, it worked.
For a while now I’ve been hacking my own version at Monkeychow.org because the features that were announced in FoF 0.5 sounded great, but the code was never released. I even merged in Simplepie a few weeks back!
But I would be very interested in getting my hands on the new 0.5 version. But… still no code available! If interested, check out the latest SVN for Monkeychow for the same features, only right now.
There are 2 different apps that have carried on the torch while FOF was dormant.
Monkeychow and fof-Redux
ALso noteworthy is a program called Tiny Tiny RSS which isnt based on FOF but is still pretty good.
I’m trying to put together my own multi-user RSS agregator, and feel that I will be duplicating work by going ahead with it.
I am just after the library classes for handling the feeds, the user/feed relationships, cacheing etc. It will be integrated into other sites, so I am looking for a complete separation of the underlying libraries and the GUIs.
Let me know if the code is heading that way, and whether it will be released. Obviously the more that can be done to avoid duplication of effort, the better.
Jason,
Check out Simplepie