August 1st is the national holiday in Switzerland. Having a longer weekend also lets me work more on Feederator. In the last few days Feederator learned some cool new tricks, which I’d like to share with you Public Change Log For the users and my …
Year: 2011
Exporting your App Engine Data with a Sitemap of Sitemaps
Currently there are about 200’000 archived items available in the Feederator database. In the hope to attract more traffic I wanted to make this data available to search engines. But how to make this data available to search engines without putting too much burden on …
Feederator, Kindle and PDF
I’m using Feederator myself to send interesting posts to my Kindle to read it later. To do this you can simple drill into the detail view of a post. There you’ll find a social bookmarking widget, labled with “share”. In the popup select “more” and …
Speeding up data store queries with self-merge joins
For a while now Feederator allows some kind of full text queries. When items are read for the first time into the datastore an index will be created. This index is currently a break down of the single words in the title, but can be …
Sending XMPP messages from Google App Engine with html
Since this took me a while to figure out I’d like to share with you. I wanted to extend Feederator to send incoming news items to the users XMPP client. What worked pretty fast was sending plain text messages: XMPPService xmpp = XMPPServiceFactory.getXMPPService(); JID jid …
Plenty of new tricks for Feederator
This weekend Feederator learned a lot of new tricks. In my opinion the coolest new thing is that Feederator adds a lot of additional data to each post. You get a website preview in the list with the feed items. In case of movie feeds …
Capture web page screenshots headless
For a while now I have been using the Amazon cloud to render web page previews for posts in Feederator. This solution is running in Amazons new free “beginner” quota. For a low load this works quite well, but it never worked to create a …