Entries tagged under ' rss '

Yahoo! Pipe creating RSS feed from Amazon Wishlist

Written August 14, 2008 in Asides

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Here’s a Yahoo! Pipe I created which uses the latest Amazon Web Services to display your wishlist (any list, actually) as an RSS feed:

Amazon Wishlist RSS Generator

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How to read your Google Apps email in your feed reader using the Atom feed

Written July 26, 2008 in Tutorial

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Funky Penguin’s mail is hosted via Google’s Free “Google Apps” service. This means that all mail sent to our domain is routed via a Gmail interface (2GB per email account, up to 100 accounts!), before being downloaded into Outlook, Mail.app, etc.

I’ve recently started filtering my email rather stringently, as my …

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How to use PHPList’s RSS features when feed URLs exceed 100 characters

Written July 26, 2008 in Tutorial

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I stumbled across an obscure bug in the latest PHPList (2.10.5) today.. I setup a development environment to pre-test a WordPress PHPList integration, and as a result, we were dealing with relatively long URLs in the RSS feed, for example :

http://phplisttest.penguinlabs.funkypenguin.info/… wordpress/2008/03/06/steve-wozniak-has-pent-up-iphone-frustrations

(I chopped …

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How to protect your website with htaccess, while allowing individual IP addresses unrestricted access

Written July 25, 2008 in Tutorial

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Today we had the need to setup a htauth-secured WordPress blog for internal development purposes. We duly protected our web application with the vanilla .htaccess directives:

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