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Processing Blogs updates
The fabulous Daniel Shiffman has been added to Processing Blogs. I'm a big fan of his course site for The Nature of Code, so it's an honour to have him on board.
In other news, I think the problems with Blogger feeds (empty links and images for some posts) have been fixed with the latest updates to FeedWordpress. Fingers crossed. Unfortunately my cron job for automatically updating the blog has broken, so for the time being I am updating by hand - apologies for the laggy updates.
I also have a new domain for Processing Blogs which I will announce soon.
Animated GPS Map
As part of the OpenStreetMap project, last month Steve Coast and I produced an A1 poster showing all the data we'd collected for London.
The biggest contributor to OpenStreetMap's UK data is an innovative courier firm called eCourier, and by way of thanks for their continuing commitment to the project I cooked up a movie of a sample of their data using Processing. Thankfully for me and my bandwidth, eCourier are kindly hosting it here for your enjoyment.
You can read more about our collaboration on their news page, and on the OpenStreetMap wiki.
Still wrestling with Feedwordpress here at Processing Blogs HQ. We're upgraded to 0.97, but something still strips links and images from Blogger feeds with mode="escaped" and I can't work out what it is. Much love and prizes to anyone who can spot the problem.
Housekeeping
By popular request, I've tweaked the Processing Blogs templates so they make it obvious who is posting what. Suggestions welcome for further improvements.
If anyone has some time to spare, I could do with some help finding out which bit of the tool chain is failing when I post images to Blogger because Processing Blogs doesn't pick them up properly. We're running Wordpress 1.5.something and the FeedWordPress plug-in to do the aggregation. It looks like Blogger sometimes changes the way html is encoded in my atom feed - perhaps that's it? I think Wordpress uses the Magpie RSS parser, but I couldn't work out how to update it in my Wordpress installation.
Testing Posting Code
Just wondering how the <code> tag works in html with Blogger.
// nothing to see here, just pretending that I've posted some code
for (int i = 0; i println("nothing to see here");
}
Does that work? Who knows? I bet it breaks Processing Blogs, but then so does posting images to this blog, for some reason. What's a blogger to do?
on edit: surprisingly seems to work as long as you stay in "edit html" and don't flick into compose or preview. Seems well padded with this style sheet though, so no need for leading or trailing line breaks in the code.
on second edit: Oh, and indenting doesn't show up, but at least it wraps long lines. Can't ask for everything!
on aggregation: Seems I was right - though it works on the page itself, it doesn't seem to get picked up by Bloglines or my Processing Blogs aggregator. Looks like it's missing from the atom feed entirely... I think I'll post a bug.
Test Post
All will be revealed shortly...
Apologies for low signal:noise.
Update: I'm aggregating blogs about Processing and related topics at Processing Blogs. Contributions welcome.
I'm using WordPress with the FeedWordPress plug-in. A few teething problems (no mod_rewrite to begin with, and a few mis-assigned posts due to default account names), but now everthing seems to be working. Not sure what to do about all the different categories it imports though.
With luck, the aggregated copy of this post will have been updated.
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