Announcing Planet Ciaran, the place for those who don’t want to read what I’ve been writing, but might consider reading what I’ve been reading. Or something like that.
In fact, I set this up to take some of the load of my poor overworked Thunderbird installation, which was picking up a silly number of feeds in addition to 11 POP3 accounts. By using some code I grabbed from Sam Ruby’s site a while ago, I’ve consolidated a large chunk of those feeds into one. I’m not sure if I should have used an official release instead of Sam’s branch, but it seems to be doing the job very nicely so far.
It might seem like overkill, and indeed it is, but it’s a toy for me to play with and frankly I also wanted the excuse to do that logo.
The grunt work of building the aggregated feed and associated web site is actually done on an isolated back-office machine and dumped to the public-facing server at regular intervals, which seems like a good plan both from a security and server load perspective. Total setup time for the whole thing was about half an hour.
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There seems to be an encoding issue on that page, at least in Camino (Firefox). It wants to display as Latin-1 but many of the entries are using UTF-8.
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The whole page is UTF-8. Not sure why your browser is wanting to display it as Latin-1, mine (Firefox 2) isn’t – I’ll have a look though. Thanks for pointing it out.
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It’s sending the content type as “text/html;charset=utf-8″ in the HTTP response, that should be enough I would have thought?
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