I’ve been meaning to fold in posts from my two mini-blogs to Coredump, but exclude them in the feeds, since I plan on adding them to my aggregated lifestream. I still haven’t found a good solution short of adding a new category (I don’t like cluttering my too-many categories {all three of them!}) or mucking around with WordPress’ add_filter in functions.php (which will likely get lost when I update WP). So I ended up focusing on the feed itself.

I’ve already set up a Feedburner feed long ago, when it was still *just* Feedburner and hadn’t been eaten up by the Borg^H^H^H^HGoogle. I can add the feed URL as a link meta in the header, but that’s not portable. So, after researching on the web for solutions, I’ve found a much simpler (and more elegant) one: use .htaccess.

The trick is to get the web server to redirect requests for the WordPress feed URI to the specified Feedburner URL, like so:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(FeedBurner|FeedValidator) [NC]
RewriteRule ^feed/?.*$ http://feeds.iandexter.net/Coredump [L,NC,R=302]

We also want to exclude requests from Feedburner itself, of course, and use HTTP code 302 (temporary redirect) so we can change the target URI later on.

To test:

$ curl -I http://iandexter.net/feed
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:57:22 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://feeds.iandexter.net/Coredump
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Try it for yourself, or better yet, subscribe to my feed.

Posted on Coredump - Work, play, and everything in-between, under a Creative Commons BY-NC license. Original article: Redirecting WordPress feeds to Feedburner by Ian Dexter R Marquez
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(Update: The Twitter feed is valid, according to the W3C, but the Feedburner one is not. Oookay, so Pipes accepts an invalid feed, but not a valid one?)

As a workaround, I plugged in the feed through Feedburner and fed the Feedburner RSS back to my Pipe, et voila! my tumblog is back to normal.

In related tumblog news, popular social bookmarking site, del.icio.us, has been rebranded as, plainly, delicious.com. The old URI still works — I like it better than the boring new one (love the new layout though, much cleaner and faster), which lacks the, er, whimsy-ness of the old domain — but just to be sure, I upgraded the link to the new feed.

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Previously, I merely plugged in the RSS output from Yahoo! Pipes to Feedburner, and served up the content using Buzzboost. Using techniques from Cristiano Betta’s lifestream and elsewhere, I simplified and modularized the Yahoo! Pipes mashup.

I then used the pipe’s JSON output and styled it with some simple CSS. I didn’t want too much dependence on other JavaScript libraries so I used native code as much as possible, except for dynamically loading the JSON object from Pipes (for which I used the JSONscriptRequest class). I’m still having trouble getting the logic of reloading the content asynchronously: for now, I simply destroy the child element containing the tumblog items and rewrite everything — expensive, I know.

I’ve also been thinking of creating a Google Gadget out of this, but the iGoogle API’s FetchFeedAsJSON method is somewhat limited. I may have to use my current approach of dynamically creating a JSON script request into the gadget.

Well, without too much fanfare, the code is over here, and the tumblog is right here.

Posted on Coredump - Work, play, and everything in-between, under a Creative Commons BY-NC license. Original article: Revisiting my tumblog by Ian Dexter R Marquez
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It was supposed to be for side projects, but since I’m neck-deep in work, I decided to make it a launch pad for my “presence” in the internet. But why stop there? So I decided to aggregate all that content, using Yahoo! Pipes:

Plunk the resulting RSS to Feedburner, and use BuzzBoost to put out HTML:

Then, voila! My very own tumblog.

Posted on Coredump - Work, play, and everything in-between, under a Creative Commons BY-NC license. Original article: Tumblog by Ian Dexter R Marquez
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