More RSS Fun
Thursday 26th Jan 2006 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 08:52PM
Well I decided to create an RSS feed for the site after playing around with the mini aggregator I created the other night. It's not like anyone will be really eager to know what I'm blogging about next but the option is there now. It's apparently also a blog standard as well, so I'm that one step closer to creating a complete package.
The next step is to probably add some XSLT and CSS to the raw feed so that it's more presentable.
You can subscribe to the feed here: 
Getting A News Feed RSS Stylee
Thursday 19th Jan 2006 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 11:59PM
Well its been a while since I've done any kind of development updates on the site but I managed to do something worthwhile tonight. I've created a test RSS news reader that'll take any RSS feed and display it in a format that can be integrated into the homepage at some point in time.
It needs a little bit more work on it yet, but I'm happy with the progress I've made on it tonight after a few hours work. If you pass it the parameter xmlfeed in the URL followed by an RSS URL then it'll display that particular feed instead. Current default is BBC News.
Time For An Update
Tuesday 17th Jan 2006 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 07:39PM
Well I've not wrote anything for a little while, I've been too busy playing on the Xbox to be bothered to write about what I've been doing with myself.
Although I have never little to report on anyway at the moment, things are pretty quiet. I've got my new TV, I ended up getting a Samsung LE26M51B, which is quite a bit better than the one I intended on getting but it came with a higher price tag.
Turned out that a Media Center PC isn't compatible with the NTL Samsung STB I have so I never ended up buying on. The one I had on order from PC World I cancelled when they couldn't get hold of the LCD screen I wanted with it.
I really need to start posting more photos on here too, I think I've broken the photo posting abilities on the site at the moment and I really need to get around to fixing it. In fact the whole site needs a bit of a spring clean. Hopefully I'll get around to it in the next couple of months, when the Xbox addiction subsides.
That makes me think I'd like a nice new camera phone to so that I don't have to keep posting them crappy grainy photos my current phone kicks out. I'll have to start looking around for a nice model.
Just starting to get into practical learning of Java / JSP now that we've been let loose on the templates at work. So I'll have something interesting to finally get stuck into. Apart from that its the same old at work.
Off down to Old Trafford on Sunday for the game against Liverpool then out round town for some beers, so looking forward to the weekend!
Oh, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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