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IAM/RSS Feed Generator

Real entries later, but I finally had a chance to put together a proof of concept IAM page to RSS feed generator (so you can take your IAM page as a whole and easily insert it into a WordPress blog or other CMS) that also does some cool stuff like rename your images so that they’ll rank better in search engine traffic and stuff like that, as well as being able to do selective date ranges and other nice little tweaks.

Unfortunately in the process of doing this I discovered that the utility that was provided to let you download your images from IAM isn’t completely functional* and has been leaving out images (so your download may not be complete)… I can probably write a scraping bot to bypass this but I’ve let “them” know how to correct the bug since I don’t have access; if I get a reply I’ll update this entry to reflect that it’s been fixed and release the tool.

* Note to would be programmers: the best thing you can do to decrease bugs is learn to test your code in all possible input scenarios, and not just assume it works because it doesn’t crash.

8 Comments

  1. Phalaeo wrote:

    Wow, um- that is REALLY, REALLY nice of you. How do you find time to do all this stuff with everything that’s going on?

    Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 4:31 pm | Permalink
  2. I know, especially with GH3 out!

    Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 4:40 pm | Permalink
  3. afilmbombs wrote:

    wow this would be really awesome, since after this whole bme situation I started a wordpress diary on my own website and have been using that for now

    Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 5:40 pm | Permalink
  4. Wldfire_1 wrote:

    Thanx for all your hard work for us! Glad your enjoying GH3, i heard its pretty sweet!

    Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 6:21 pm | Permalink
  5. gone wrote:

    Test code? What kind of sense does that make? You’re losing it, Shannon! :)

    Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 6:50 pm | Permalink
  6. Steve wrote:

    If it aint broke man or no one has noticed the cracks!

    I agree with gone.

    Crazy Talking Canadians!!!!

    Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 10:25 pm | Permalink
  7. maudlinmuse wrote:

    You’re on gerovitol? ha.
    What is GH3? I hate not knowing.

    Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 7:46 am | Permalink
  8. Alyssa wrote:

    gh3 = guitar hero III. ive always been more of an rpg person myself.

    Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 9:43 am | Permalink

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