I've added Rob "Omar" Knop to Planet Phoenyx, having only recently
discovered his blog by way of his post to his new game (because despite my
encouragement, nobody has volunteered their blog for Planet Phoenyx):
you can learn from his blog that (1) he has won the Gruber Prize in
Cosmology, and (2) he has a new job at Linden Labs (the Second Life
people; you may have heard of them). Woo!
Aside: The (currently) second most recent article in Planet Phoenyx does
tell me I should probably look into truncating on a word boundary,
however...
Aside: The (currently) second most recent article in Planet Phoenyx does
tell me I should probably look into truncating on a word boundary,
however...
Yes, but it's still funny :)
BTW, how easy is it to truncate on a sentence or paragraph boundary?
I've never actually seen it done by any site, so I'm not sure whether or
not it's practical to do it.
It seems to have a problem with Umlauts, which might be a problem when
one of the feeds is from a heavy metal fan that sometimes visits
German-speaking countries.
BTW, how easy is it to truncate on a sentence or paragraph boundary? I've
never actually seen it done by any site, so I'm not sure whether or not it's
practical to do it.
Reasonably. But not with 100% accuracy. HTML::Truncate (IIRC, I might
have the module name wrong) mostly focuses on not truncating in the middle
of an HTML tag, and then on closing all the tags that got left open by the
truncation.
Text::Original, which is what the Phoenyx uses for summary feeds (which
only work in RSS just this moment) does a pretty fair job of finding the
first line of a post.
It seems to have a problem with Umlauts, which might be a problem when one of
the feeds is from a heavy metal fan that sometimes visits German-speaking
countries.
"It" being the planet, or something else? If the planet, then actually
it's doing a pretty good job considering that it's trying to consolidate
feeds from a vast array of indifferently-adhered-to so-called standards.
I have developed great respect for the people who write feed readers,
because just finding the content is sometimes challenging, much less
deciding how much decoding it's going to take.
There's room for improvement, but right now the planet isn't my top
priority... the next release of Gamehawk proper is forthcoming. (Cue scary
music.)
