Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Blogger RSS Feeds for a Label

Blogger has crappy support for RSS apparently. I figured if I clicked on a label, then found the RSS embedded in the page…it would give me the RSS feed for that label, right?

Wrong.

Of course there’s an FAQ page about this, but the syntax it gives is …

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Why Rewrite IRC into JavaScript? (vs. libpurple’s vs. ChatZilla’s)

I had a request on IRC (from Mic) to write an in-depth blog post about IRC in JavaScript:

“Maybe we could ask clokep if he’d like to write something about js-irc? Why it is done, what the advantages are once it’s done, how he is working on it …
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Saturday, December 4, 2010

JavaScript IRC in Instantbird

I’ve been working on rewriting the IRC plugin for Instantbird since the summer (sometime in August, I can’t seem to find the exact date — at least since Sept. 10th though).

Since libpurple (used in Pidgin, Adium, etc.) provides the IRC protocol that we currently use, why do this …

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Monday, November 22, 2010

Yahoo & Thunderbird Can Finally Play Nice?

For years I’ve been dealing with Yahoo’s lack of support for any sort of decent (free) POP3/IMAP/SMTP protocol support. Why do I need this? So I can check my Yahoo mail in Mozilla Thunderbird of course!

At first I used YPOPS!, a program that read the …

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