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♬ Feed on Feeds 0.5 ♬

steve — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:28:48 +0000

Over at the project page you can find a nice shiny tarball for FoF 0.5! The last feature I wanted to get in was a plugin that automatically tags items based on keywords, and it’s in there. Bug reports, questions, comments, patches, whatever are all welcome either on the mailing list or in the bug tracker. Based on an extrapolation of the current trend, I’ll see you back here for the next version in 2016!

Favicons

steve — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:04:14 +0000

I just checked in a new version of SimplePie that uses md5() instead of sha1() internally to generate cached filenames. If you were using favicons and update to the latest version, they will probably all not show up. They will reappear in about a week’s time if you do nothing, and if you want to force them to reappear when you next update, run this query:

update fof_feed set feed_image_cache_date = 0

Usually FoF only re-checks the cached favicons once a week. This makes it think that the last time it checked was January 1st, 1970.

Schema change checked in MOMENTS AGO

steve — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:53:33 +0000

If you have a FoF installation that is tracking the svn tip, next time you update you’ll get new code that stores a hash of the password in the DB, instead of the password itself. This requires a schema upgrade, so please run “install.php”. After this, you will have to log on to FoF again, but otherwise the upgrade should be seamless.

By the way, good stuff going on out on the tip! I’ve upgraded SimplePie and Prototype to the latest, have fixed several layout bugs, as well as some other bugs submitted over at Google Code (thanks!). Also, I believe favicons are now fully operational, and I think we’re back to full support for “private” feeds (https and authenticated, including DIGEST). Caveat: the private feed support will only work if your host supports the cURL extension.

To subscribe to a private feed, just add it in this form:

http[s]://username:password@example.com/my/top/secret/feed

New Year - New Code

steve — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:37:17 +0000

I’ve just checked in version 0.4999… (as in, not quite 0.5) to Google Code. You’re just one

svn checkout http://feed-on-feeds.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ feed-on-feeds

from trying it out! (NB: has not been tested on IE.) Bug reports and discussions here or on the mailing list are welcome.

There is no “upgrade” from a previous version of FoF, but you can import your old subscriptions in an OPML file.

Putting the band back together

steve — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:05:55 +0000

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!