zaterdag 11 september 2004

Smarter aggregators
Mary Hodder: "But, I was thinking, what about smarter aggregators that learned the posting patterns of the writers? How about aggregators that got a sense for the frequency of posting, and then polled at that rate"

Well, you know what they say about great minds... ;-)
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iPodder.root v0.2
I've just made some changes to the iPodder, which I will call iPodder.root from now. That's a more unique name, so it's easier to distinguish this one from the other versions (i-podder.js, pyPodder, etcetera). Also: the file is called iPodder.root, so it makes more sense.

Now, the changes are:
  • checking if a folder exists, before trying to read from it. Some of the errors Ed got should be fixed by this.
  • checking multiple folders. iPodder.root now checks 'today' and 'yesterday'. I can easily make it check more folders, but I would like some feedback on that: how many days should the script run through? Or would you like to be able to specify that yourself? Please tell me.
You can download iPodder.root v0.2 here. Feedback, and I mean all of it, is welcome in the comments or via e-mail (breuls at gmail or the little envelope in the column on the left).

Happy iPodding!
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