Monthly Archives: September 2007

Wizz RSS 3 – Part 3

September 30, 2007
By Mike

It’s a rather mixed emotions day today. Yesterday my ex-brother-in-law, Malcolm, was killed in a motor accident and today is my mother’s 70th birthday. Paige and I will be going through to Jo’burg later today for a surprise party for my mother, hence the fact I’m up so early. In part three I’ll talk...

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Conspiracy theorists abound!

September 29, 2007
By Mike

I’m not a religious person, but I’m sure that most people understand something that must be a pretty universal law: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Strangely enough, when it comes to the Internet, many people seem to think that the simple laws of life no longer apply. Spammers...

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Wizz RSS 3 – Part 2

September 28, 2007
By Mike

I came trundling downstairs this morning, ready for a cup of coffee and writing part two, only to be greeted by… Nothing! Sometime during the night the power had gone off! My brain doesn’t work without caffeine (It doesn’t work very well with caffeine either), so I ended up boiling water in a pot...

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Cleaning up the Public List

September 26, 2007
By Mike

Being highly motivated by my new found blogging-state-of-mind, I decided to clean up the Public List. Perhaps I should take a moment to explain why it is called “the Public List.” In the early days of Wizz RSS, all feed data was stored centrally on the Wizz server. There were two types of feed...

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Wizz RSS 3 – Part 1

September 24, 2007
By Mike

Development of Wizz RSS 3 is underway and progressing quite nicely. Two betas have already been released (2.9.0 for Gran Paradiso 3.0a5 and 2.9.1 for Gran Paradiso 3.0a7). Wizz RSS 3 will only work with Firefox 3, and I plan to blog about the three main areas of change. Hopefully this’ll keep all Wizz...

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