This morning we found ourselves with an extremely rare weekend day with no plans. No places to go, no people to see (and no people coming to see us). So, I actually had a chance to work on a few computer projects. This all started the other day when I 'refreshed' my PC. After three years, this thing has slowed to a crawl and has started to act a little buggy. So, I formatted the hard drive, reinstalled Windows XP, and now I have what feels like a brand new machine. Well, maybe not brand new, but it doesn't take five minutes to boot anymore!
So, wanting to do something fun on my 'new' machine, I decided to tinker around with creating a site that could show all of our most recent blog postings on one page--sort of a 'one-stop shop' of new posts. My tinkering paid off, and I am proud to present the results: version one of the H-Blog! The whole thing is based on a nice little PHP script that pulls everyone's most recent posting from their Atom syndication feed, parses the data, and builds my little web page. I also set up a companion blog for this page so I could easily post relevant news at the top of the page. Anyway, I hope you find it useful when you just want to check to see if anyone has posted recently and don't want to go to each individual blog. I know I will!
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Dude! This is sweet! Thanks J-daawg!
Heh, I had the same kinda idea. Though am going about it a different way. http://www.hagerstownmd.us/
gonna be a place where people can get a free blog so I dont have to log into 20 different sites to post. :)
The main page will take the most recent listings and display them.
I had seen what you put together, Joe, and thought it was a good idea...but, I also figured people wouldn't want to move their blogs over to your site. Especially, Kris...I think he is actually paying for his blog. So, I thought my solution would offer the best of both worlds...everyone gets to keep their own blog where it is but their posts get aggregated onto one page.
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