Monday, August 30, 2004

Creating an RSS feed of the books you have checked out of the library. Peter Rukavina has figured out a way to create an RSS feed of the books that he has checked out of his library: "The result is a Perl script that automatically connects to the web-based Dynix (aka Epixtech) OPAC and grabs a list of the items I've got checked out and the date they are due. It then creates an RSS feed that I can read in my newsreader every morning." Of course, the first thing that came to mind was that Peter should contact Dynix and show them what he has done. My second thought was that he should contact the other vendors and show them how it can easily be done. My third and final thought was to contact Peter, get on my knees, put my hands in the air, and scream, "I'm Not Worthy". Great spidering work Peter. I'd love to see some other feeds that can be created with the Dynix catalog (RSS Feeds by DDC or subject headings, perhaps?). [Library Stuff] OK, great portal stuff.  Imagine being able to get this stuff and present it to faculty and students when they login in the morning.  11:16:30 AM

Displaying weather on your Web site with PHP:"Always wanted to have your site colors reflect the weather outside? Or maybe thinking about adding weather information to your local news portal? We're going to teach you all about retrieving and using meteorological data to show users on the other side of the planet whether it's sunny or cloudy outside your window." Uses PHP PEAR module and a local zip code. 9:07:03 AM

GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem - "GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail. " 8:58:01 AM