The aforementioned new version of ConnectBlogs.com rolled into production last night. It will be a process of ongoing improvement, but I’m really happy with what we have now. I think a lot of people will find it to be a valuable resource, and I personally hope it makes the Utah business and tech communities a [...]
I apologize that I haven’t posted in a while; I’ve been pretty busy with a number of things: my day job as website manager at Overstock, a lot of website contracting and consulting work in the evenings, my usual slew of volunteer projects, and most recently (and notably) setting up the new version of ConnectBlogs [...]
Most people don’t know this, but WordPress automatically builds RSS feeds for specific categories. So if you wanted to syndicate only “tech” stories from the Jordy Blog, you could use this feed:
http://jordy.gundy.org/wp-rss2.php?cat=3
To view which id you could use for a category-specific feed, just click on a category and see what is listed in the [...]
My brother set up a Utah Open Source Planet to aggregate posts from anyone who’s an “Open Source FRIEND/USER/HACKER/ZEALOT” in Utah. If you live in Utah, love open source, and want to be aggregated, just follow his submission instructions.
Other good resources for Utah Open Source Junkies:
Utah Valley Linux User Group
Greater Utah BSD User Group
Ogden Area [...]
I just finished setting up Planet blog aggregation software on planet.provolabs.com. It clearly needs some CSS work done on it, but all of the functionality is there.
I was worried that (without an prepackaged RPM) setting it up would be difficult, but installation was much easier than I anticipated. Because it’s just a python script run [...]
