You can go and download Yarr, unzip and it and (for the windows version) double-click the .exe. Straight away you will have a working web-based RSS reader.

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I follow Steve Messer’s blog – he’s a product manager in the UK Civil Service, making land and housing data easier to find, use and trust. And he writes weeknotes which I enjoy reading. He mentioned this week that

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After yesterday’s adventure and recent forehead-smacking, this seemed like an appropriate, and small, goal. After some Googling I found RestSharp, which bills itself as a ...

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As I recently wrote, I have a new-found interest in ebooks (I also bought four new textbooks from O’Reilly using a BOGOF offer to pick up 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know, Beautiful Code and The Art of Agile Dev...

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I tried this a year ago only to experience epic fail. I tried this yesterday and it was a marvellous success. Around this time last year

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Whilst trying to parse some Atom (my Blogger backup) with libxml2 I appear to have run into the same problem that Aristotle hit two years ago in XPath vs the default namespace: easy things should be easy, to wit: The story is that you can’t match on the default namespace in XPath.

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How to create a backup of your starred items in Google Reader, should the need ever arise:

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The latest Atom-over-XMPP IETF draft expired two months ago.

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The latest Atom-over-XMPP IETF draft expired two months ago.

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I think that James Snell’s post on this pretty much covers my thoughts on the matter. Me: Screw that, use Atom and HTTP POST and GET and all that REST stuff instead.

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