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Seven AM until 2 AM got to be stupid !!
Had To Be done the External Feed Plugin is now finished with the ability to add the feed content to the database.
A customer with holiday lets requested the ability to import calendar dates from Google Calendar and display availability in an EE calendar so this functionality was added at the same time.
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Content is king Long live content !!
Distributing content via RSS is not new. However displaying the content within your own site is !!.
Let me try to explain we would never advocate plagiarism but the content within the RSS feed is in the public domain.
The usual feed contains a most of the content of the web site it originated on. However most aggregators (feed displayers) show minimized content (description and a link back) forcing you to visit the originators site to view the full article.
We have just completed an object that effectively pulls and displays the full content of the feed within your own site.
Here is an example of F1 Jake Humphry's blog distributed by the BBC Formula One Site Here .
In this instance the content is pulled from the BBC site and displayed from within our site structure. All the content is beond your control as its generated by the content provider in this instance the BBC.
Why is this functionality important to us ? Lets say I'm a night club owner with live music three times a week managing my website content to reflect my performers can become a nightmare task for my site administers cutting and pasting content from one site to another. Not any more you can effectively just request a RSS feed from the bands and display their content from within your own site.
To take this a stage further we have the ability for users to save the content into a database and manipulate the content as if you owned it (well effectively you do). The problem we have a present the inconsistency of the feed structure so not an automated process at present.
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Arrived back last night after 5 days in the smoke not been up for a few months as my customer base is swiftly disappearing up there.
Nipper might be working in a dodgey area @ the moment but is coping well. In line with government cutbacks The Met IT department is forcing all staff to re-apply for their positions.
Their aim is to cull non hands on staff i.e. Project Managers to reduce their overhead by 40%. As my nipper is hands on she's looking OK and could come out with an increased role.
An hour was enough in Oxford St before I hit a boozer to get away from the Grockles and I thought it was only in Tenby we had the problem.
Started @ 6 this morning in an effort to catch up for the lost 5 days. Did manage to solve the Digital Dashboard problem whilst away by calling the embeds from the database instead of from EE. It works OK now so is ready with a little more work to deploy for customers.
Unfortunately during my absence we lost one of our regulars in my Local Watering hole. Monty was a welsh sheep dog who was often seen wondering the streets of Tenby and normally ended up in my local with his mum and dad great friends of mine. He will be sadly missed even by the butcher who had a daily visit !! RIP Monty Bach.
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Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has slammed the "hypocrisy" of those who have criticised Fernando Alonso's victory in Sunday's German Grand Prix.
Ferrari have been fined $100,000 for appearing to give Felipe Massa a coded order to allow Alonso through to win and referred to F1's governing body.
But Montezemolo replied: "Enough of the hypocrisy. This has always happened."
"If one races for Ferrari, then the interests of the team come before those of the individual," he added.
The result at Hockenheim put Alonso firmly back in what looks a five-way fight for the drivers' championship, with McLaren pair Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, and Red Bull duo Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber the others in with a realistic chance of battling for the title.
Alonso is now 34 points behind championship leader Hamilton with eight races remaining, while Massa, who had failed to score a single point in the previous three races, is 38 points adrift of his Spanish team-mate.
The controversial incident occurred when Massa, marking the first anniversary of his near-fatal crash in Hungary, was given a veiled radio message on lap 47 indicating that the Spaniard was the faster of the two drivers and, two laps later, the Brazilian slowed to let Alonso past.
It prompted heavy criticism from outside the Ferrari camp, though, with the likes of Button, Red Bull boss Christian Horner and BBC F1 pundit Eddie Jordan questioning the Italian team's race strategy
Montezemolo remained unrepentant, though, telling the Ferrari website : "The polemics are of no interest to me.
"These things have happened since the days of (Tazio) Nuvolari (a Ferrari driver in the 1930s) and I experienced it myself when I was sporting director, in the days of Niki Lauda.
"Therefore, enough of this hypocrisy, even if I can well believe that some people might well have liked to see our two drivers eliminate one another, but that is definitely not the case for me or indeed for our fans.
"I am very happy for all our fans who finally saw two Ferraris lead from start to finish as they dominated the race.
"The result is down to the efforts of all our people, who never give up.
"Now we have to continue working like this, to improve the car so that is competitive at all the circuits we will encounter.
"Alonso and Massa also did very well, giving their all throughout the weekend."
The next race is at Hungary this weekend. The committee considered all options, including using some of the council’s reserves, but it was agreed that, based on the net projected income these events would generate, the likely deficit amount required from the public purse was too great to warrant such action.
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