----------------------------------- jernst Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:04 am CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- Hey people, I've found a few blogs from the people in the compsci.ca community and enjoy browsing them when I get a change. To make it easier to find them I thought it would be kinda cool to have a thread with a link to everyone's blog posted in it, so post away so I can come read them :P ----------------------------------- apomb Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:08 am RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- well you must know the [url=www.compsci.ca/blog]compsci.ca blog then there is [url=http://blog.aaziz.org/]azizz's blog and [url=www.mackiedrew.com]mackie's blog Dan has a blog too, but ill let him post that one, im not too sure of the url, and since i have it on RSS, i dont feel like digging it up. ----------------------------------- Saad Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:17 am Re: CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- Dan's blog is located [url=http://hackerdan.com/]here. ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:38 am RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- [url=http://www.paulbutler.org/]Paul's blog ----------------------------------- apomb Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:03 pm RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- ok, serious question: is PaulButler the same as PaulBian from yon years past? ----------------------------------- Aziz Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:59 pm RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- Sweet :) appreciate'd. The plural of my last name is awkward. Usually I'll spell it Aziz' or sometimes Aziz's. I didn't know about mackie or pauls though *adds to RSS*. Also, a it's worth noting that compsci.ca/blog is mostly Tony's work, but theres some other writers, too, including Clayton. ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:41 pm Re: RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- ok, serious question: is PaulButler the same as PaulBian from yon years past? No. I don't think so. And yes, while compsci.ca/blog is 95% written by myself, there are contributions by Brandon, Clayton, Geoff "Cervantes", Paul, and Prof. Ragde. I'm always accepting contributions from community members, so if anyone is interested in publishing a guest post (under your own name, obviously) -- send me a PM for details. ----------------------------------- Aziz Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:45 pm RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- I wouldn't mind writing for the blog. I just don't have anything to post, really. I sure could come up with some things to write about so if you've got a request for a guest post let me know, Tony. Perhaps a weekly guest column? :P ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:52 pm RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- I've got a white-board full of ideas for topics to write about. I'll PM you some, for inspiration, when I get back home later today. ----------------------------------- Aziz Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:02 pm RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- Right on, looking forward to it :) I think I've actually got an idea, I'll tell you when I get your PM. ----------------------------------- Reality Check Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:25 pm Re: CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- I wouldn't mind writing a guest blog now that school's out. I've always wanted to write a blog. Don't got any ideas but the only one I've thought about is the high school curriculum for CS and it's problems (a lot of my thoughts were already expressed in my topic) but that might be best left to you to write. Wouldn't mind writing a guest blog too though :D ----------------------------------- Aziz Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:29 pm RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- You've got two options for your own blog: Get some webhosting, either through a service or even host your own on a home server and install blog software like Wordpress. -OR- Sign up for the many free blog services out there, like blogger.com. ----------------------------------- Reality Check Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:33 pm Re: CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- ^^Thanks for the ideas Aziz. ----------------------------------- Aziz Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:40 pm RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- Help is my middle name! ----------------------------------- Zeroth Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:50 pm Re: CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- Theres also my blog: http://oddco.ca/zeroth/zblog I do try to keep up on it, depending on my mood. ----------------------------------- Aziz Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:04 pm RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- I'll vouch for Zeroth's blog. It's updated a few times a week that I noticed and pretty interesting :D. Maybe someone should put a Blogs page up on the wiki (not that anyone really looks at the wiki, but what the heck). ----------------------------------- Zeroth Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:55 pm Re: CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- Thanks Aziz. Now that I have a semi-personal relationship, with one of my readers, I'm a bit more inspired to post more. ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:34 pm RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- zylum's personal blog. I reserve the executive right to edit the list of published feeds, as I see fit. ----------------------------------- Zeroth Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:46 pm Re: CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- I just wanted to point out, I'm seeing weird errors from that page Tony: Warning: Attempt to assign property of non-object in /home/tony/blog/wp-includes/rss.php on line 431 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/tony/blog/wp-content/plugins/rss-stream/rss-stream.php on line 189 ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:55 pm RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- ehh... it appears that I'm having some caching issues... somewhere. It still work. Sometimes. I took our RSS fetching cache and it seems to have stopped going to the block of code that horribly broke things. Though I see some weird behaviour about the most recent item... ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:42 am Re: CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- Very nice! I hadn't taken the time to look at many of these blogs, but they're full of interesting stuff. Useful page, Tony, for us non RSS freaksusers. ;) ----------------------------------- zylum Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:55 am RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- Hey that's pretty cool Tony :). Thanks for pointing out my subscribe button - it is fixed now. ----------------------------------- Aziz Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:04 am RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- Once you get into RSS, you'll be like us :), refreshing your iGoogle home page every couple minutes to see the 5 new Lifehacker posts come :P And wonderful stuff Tony! ( except it's broke for me, too :() ----------------------------------- Reality Check Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:24 am Re: CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- Yea I had to refresh to get it to work. Pretty cool though. ----------------------------------- Tony Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:20 pm RE:CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- Alright, I think I've solved the caching issue with an ugly ugly hack of "if feed is missing, try to get it a second time" call. I also have finally gotten the author information to be carried through. Zeroth -- quit posting as "admin" The feed now also comes with a summary of keywords for each article, as determined by Yahoo. ----------------------------------- Zeroth Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:24 pm Re: CompSci.ca User Blogs ----------------------------------- Sorry. Its just the way webfaction deploys wordpress blogs. I'll look into it.