Scripting News

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 23:40:26 GMT

Manila improvement: In 1999, when Manila was first released, spam had not yet become the huge annoyance it is today. Now, in 2003, there are all kinds of harvesters that scan the Web looking for email addresses, there are even harvesters written specifically for Manila sites. They know where to look. And they slow down our servers. It's a terrible situation. So UserLand changed the implementation of Manila to hide the email addresses from the harvesters. This should improve things quite a bit!

Sun, 20 Apr 2003 01:18:45 GMT

Ev, if you're in Mountain View, try the sushi at the Japanese place on Dana just off Castro.

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 23:51:42 GMT

Matt Grayson has an OPML Directory Browser for .NET.

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 22:04:44 GMT

Damn I hate California this time of year. ";->"

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 18:39:26 GMT

Caleb Crain: "It's a little unreal to think that someone I've known for years took these photographs in Iraq this morning, and I'm looking at them after lunch in the safe haven of Brooklyn."

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 13:45:32 GMT

BBC: US airline pilots get guns.

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:05:27 GMT

UserTalk source for site-list OPML script, below.

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 12:34:23 GMT

Chris Lydon: "If Saddam ruled perchance Rome, we might just possibly have decided to go get him; but somebody would have said: oh, by the way, we have to save the Sistine Chapel!"

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 11:25:32 GMT

Phillip Pearson has an OPML Directory Browser in C#.

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 11:26:00 GMT

Interesting timing, I'm did an OPML project this morning. Here's the problem. Before our server was up and running I started a directory for Harvard weblogs, we got 35 submissions, all from sites running off the Harvard network. Then the server went live, and we are starting new sites at an increasing rate, over 100 so far. Of couse those people wanted to know why they aren't in the directory. Oy. Last night I figured out how to put both directories together, without having to manually add each site as it comes online. I wrote a script that generates an OPML document listing all the sites that have ten or more messages in the discussion group, indicating someone is posting stuff, either to the home page or as comments. Then I included that as a new sub-directory, and moved the off-site blogs into a sub-directory, and joined the two in the original location. Sounds complicated? It's not when you read the directory.

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 12:47:32 GMT

Jake Savin: "A whole bunch of new stuff is in progress for Manila. I've got a list longer than my arm, and I'm working as fast as I can to get features, enhancements and bug-fixes into the software."