Hi everybody, I did some recreational programming[1] yesterday... something else than editing my progress report :-)
I've added an area at the top of http://viff.dk/ that shows the four most recent changes in the Mercurial repository and most recent posts on this mailing list. The page is generated every third hour right now, but that can be tweaked. We could even make it update by a hook in the repository and a procmail script connected to the mailinglist, but for now I just made a simple cronjob. Please let me know what you think, should there be more/less news? Should we limit the number of characters in the titles of the news items so that they stay on one line? The possibilities are endless :-) This was of course made Python (112 lines of code plus 250 for the index.html template) using Genshi[2] and Feedparser[3]. Both of these tools are excellent: They are simple to use, yet they solve difficult and annoying problems. [1]: http://jtauber.com/blog/2006/03/11/recreational_programming/ [2]: http://genshi.edgewall.org/ [3]: http://feedparser.org/ -- Martin Geisler
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