Putting your code where your mouth is

Since I’m away from work (Ill, but in a “Don’t go too far from the bathroom” way, rather than a “Don’t get out of bed” way) I’ve ended up coding the “Subscribe Me” thing I was talking about this morning.

Including LiveJournal, Radio Userland and Bloglines support, I bring you SubscribeMe

(Try this link for a working example)

Now, if all those famous people who will never ever read this could see it.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 12th, 2005 at 14:03 and is filed under Imported From Epistula, Projects, SubscribeMe, web development. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
  1. Mags
    14:58 on January 12th, 2005

    It works!

    As I was also signed into Bloglines, it took me straight into my “subscribe to this” dialog. Neat. Although ironically the newly subbed feed didn’t include this post…

    Also, I have a question about the LJ feed – how does it which LJ feed it is?

  2. Senji
    15:29 on January 12th, 2005

    Now that is just cool.

  3. Aquarion
    15:45 on January 12th, 2005

    It scans the feeds for the first URL to match the URL you asked for, and returns the right LJ. Since LJ doesn’t let you have two LJs with the same URL, that should work.

  4. Aquarion
    15:49 on January 12th, 2005

    Repaired.

    The difference is that Straight RSS won’t ever serve an Atom feed. This is now reflected in the description.

  5. gilmae
    21:22 on January 12th, 2005

    Brilliant. Now you just need a corny icon, and you’re well on your way to grumpily claiming to be the Father of Auto-Subscriptions.

  6. Murky
    11:06 on January 22nd, 2005

    Aq,

    A little note re: the link.

    Some folks may wish to know that to avoid the errors associated with &rss2 etc, one can use &rss2 instead.

    This resolves to the correct url, but allows the page to validate.