Friday, June 19, 2015; 2:25:57 PM Eastern
riverBrowser open source release
- Rivers are very important structures in my 2015 world, as it's shaping up.
- They appear on the home pages of Scripting News, Podcatch.com. Subsets of rivers are on every page rendered by Liveblog.
- Rivers are not only important here, but they also form the central structures of Twitter and Facebook.
- Doing a good job of generating and viewing rivers is a pretty big deal. However, until now my work in this area was not organized. This open source release in an attempt to add organization.
- #### GitHub repo
- Here's a link to the GitHub repository for riverBrowser.
- The readme explains how to call its main routine, httpGetRiver.
- #### Sites that use this toolkit
- I've converted most of my river sites to use the new toolkit, including:
- 1. "Scripting News"
- 2. Podcatch
- 3. TechBlast (a new site for tech news)
- 4. Radio's Rivers (my original collection of rivers)
- #### The other side
- Rivers are an open format, defined by the spec on riverjs.org.
- "River4", a Node.js aggregator that's also open source, generates rivers.
- #### Still to-do
- The rivers that are integrated in River4 have not yet been updated. I wanted to give the community a chance to review the implementation here, and try it out on their own rivers, before taking a chance on breaking people's installations. So this review is important if you want a relatively breakage-free update.