By epb on November 17, 2009
Yeah, I could probably file this one under “overkill.” I’ve managed to set up a virtual machine running Danbooru so that I may finally get my personal photo collection organized AND be able to do so regardless of operating system I choose to boot. The traditional hierarchial manner of organizing files is a complete waste [...]
Posted in Small Project | Tagged danbooru, metadata
By epb on August 2, 2009
You can use Yahoo Pipes to create an aggregated RSS feed from a CSV file you maintain. It’s fairly easy too, which is awesome. For those who are not familiar with Yahoo Pipes, it’s a beta product by Yahoo that makes it easy to create simple mashups of content available on the Internet, read more [...]
Posted in Small Project | Tagged pipes
By epb on July 19, 2009
Answering a question that was posed at work regarding RSS feeds and Yahoo Pipes. Q: How can I make an aggregated RSS feed in Pipes? A: If you have a set of RSS feeds you’d like to include in an aggregated feed, simply drag the fetch feed module into the workspace and click the addition [...]
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By epb on July 2, 2009
Occasionally, you’ll have a project where one of the last minute ideas is to add a manageable list of links to a webpage or series of webpages. Nothing fancy, just a list of links that can be plopped into a layout. Well, this little project allows you to quickly set up a web-based administration for [...]
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By epb on June 21, 2009
I’ve set up a little thing while playing with wildcard DNS on this domain. A faux-news story that you can modify by changing the sub-domain in the URL. Here is an excerpt from Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: METROPOLIS – In the slums of Metropolis Bill Gates’s villainous deeds have been put to a stop [...]
Posted in Small Project | Tagged slightly random
By epb on February 19, 2009
A while back a project called GoodSearch was brought to my attention where every search you made donated about one cent to the charity of your choosing. This search happens to be based on Yahoo search so there’s not much incentive to return IMHO. So I set up a little thing that let’s me search [...]
Posted in Small Project | Tagged charity, search