Tue, 16 Mar 2004

Mar 16, 2004, 15:22 [home/perl_scripts/up_and_coming]
MP3 Database Script

I’ve written a MP3 database script much like the service that used to be available to artists at MP3.com. It manages streaming, downloading, song history, and hopefully soon I’ll add features like automatic purchasing via PayPal.com, a ‘play all songs on this album’ feature, radio station options, and more.

I haven’t actually packaged this script for sale yet, as it’s been used only on JasonSilver.com for my own personal recordings. I’d be interested in hearing feedback from potential users of this script as I consider adding it to the list at Intelliscript.net.

~Jason

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Mon, 08 Mar 2004

Mar 08, 2004, 20:55 [home/perl_scripts/autofollowup]
New Version of AFU Available

I’ve just completed adding some requested features and fixing a couple of bugs in Auto FollowUp, including the Admin script.

Some changes: 1. Allows you to hide the list names from subscribers if you wish to (done from Global Variables)

2. Validates the list name in case user types it wrong or doesn’t include it in the URL.

3. Setup includes an environment variables section for novices who don’t know their server well

4. Minor changes in set up page explanations.

5. Leap year bug fixed (will only work for a hundred years or so though— sorry) I haven’t been able to duplicate this bug, so if it’s still not working, please let me know.
6. Fixed a OneTimer issue with no sender name or to name included with the email address.

7. Renamed the temporary lists for OneTimers from temp_listname to onetimer_listname.

8. Modified the one timer to send tomorrow by default. This can be changed after email is drafted. It gives you a chance to double check your copy etc., before the script begins sending.

9. If plugins do not exist, the link to the mailing list script is replaced with a link to the plugins on Intelliscript.net— not a bug, but some people thought it was. It’s much more elegant this way anyway.

If there are other issues I need to know about, please tell me.

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Sun, 07 Mar 2004

Mar 07, 2004, 22:25 [home/perl_scripts]
News Feed Works

Cool! I’ve made use of my news feed on Intelliscript.net!

Instead of starting a new blog on Intelliscript.net to manage news regarding my scripts there, I wrote a script to read and parse my XML news feed (RSS) and place it on the home page. It’s always an exact copy of what’s on my CrookedBush.com blogs under scripts!

Grabbing the feed and parsing it for display on Intelliscript is a little slower than I like, so I may modify it to update to a text file once a day or something like that. But the basic idea is working well.

Once I get getChurch.org’s blog of our newsletter Inside up and running, I plan on creating a news feed for that as well so the top 4 or 5 headlines can be put on any site using simple JavaScript. We have the technology!.

If only we had the technology to get the script running. The dear-friends at Blacksun.ca hosting are (how can I say this nicely?) not as skilled as I would like.

The script is reading the .cgi/.pl extension as a Blosxom flavour, which is very strange. They want me to use a different script— ain’t gonna happen. I’ll move to a new server first.

I may have to hack flavours out of Blosxom, which is no great loss as I already wrote a Blosxom plugin to use my script SiteSkinner.

~Jason

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Mar 07, 2004, 15:28 [home]
RSS Could Be More Useful

I was visiting this blog, the maker of my pocket pc RSS reader and found this interesting post, from this site:

When i first started using RSS, i was ecstatic. Rather than relying on going to each person’s page, i could just throw them all in one place and go through them. I’m a bit more disillusioned now. I got all excited and started adding every blog that had an interesting thread. Almost humorously, i started breaking after about 150 regularly updated blogs. Worse: i miss half of the interesting posts that i want to read because i’m too overwhelmed. This made me sit back and think about what kind of an RSS feed i want.