I've just been looking through the apple dashboard developer site. I want to create a dashbaord widget which will grab the last 5,10,whatever posts from a specified forum and display in a widget. There are some out there which do this already, but they use RSS feeds and not Atom, so it's more than a simple case open changing the feed URL to the one of the forum. Anyone else fancying having a crack at this?
edit: more info here -
http://www.36-degrees.co.uk/vanilla2/comments.php?DiscussionID=75
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •Alternately: You could make a variation of the file that generates the atom feed to make an RSS one instead.
Worst-case scenario: You could set up a FeedBurner account which will do auto-conversion for your feeds (Atom to RSS, RSS 2 to RSS 0.92, etc.), but they'll need to be publically accessible for their service to read them.
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •RSS Feed Generator source code.
Save that in your feeds directory and try using that. A few caveats:
1- it does not get added automatically to the head of the document so it can't be used automatically for a live-bookmark in firefox/mozilla.
2- it does not get added automatically to the list of feeds on the feeds page.
3- if you want to change the language on it, you'll need to do it by hand by editing the two-letter language code in the <language> tags (line 209).
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •I second that idea. Actually mark, I'm just waiting for the next revision while I read through the mounds of documentation that's already been finished.
Hoping to see all the improvements that people have suggested and hoping to see what gets in. And waiting for the flurry of extensions that should follow.
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •stuart: could you give me the link of your RSS feed, so i can take a look?
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •RSS.php
please test it!
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •Weird, i just tried it with the feed for my install of vanilla and it validated okay except for this:
Your feed appears to be encoded as "UTF-8", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII"But it said that wasn't anything to worry about. That said, I'll still admit that it's an ugly hacky collection of code, and I still haven't tried to really fix the datestamp issue.
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