Karl Katzke

Man, and I thought my Wordpress upgrade struggles were over.

So, you upgraded to 2.5 a few days ago, and you’re using the Default theme until you have time to customize another one. And you got rid of the old Statspress plugin because after you started getting over 10,000 pageviews a …

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One of the websites I’ve done consulting work on, BookGlutton, has been nominated for a Webby Award. Congratulations to Travis and Aaron!

The majority of the site was developed using Symfony, XMPP, and the blog is Wordpress. I helped write a bunch of the user account management …

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Excuse any temporary wobbles while we finish up developing our new theme.

I developed this theme from scratch based on an idea I had a while ago. The goal was to create a simple, readable theme with a bit more of a ‘classical newspaper’ look to it. It hasn’t taken me …

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You might be wondering what these three things have to do with one another.

The basic gist is that I’m trying to use the Wordpress 2.5 RSS widget to read in my Google Reader ’shared items’ feed. Google Reader will publish your shared items in an Atom RSS feed. For a sample, you can see mine here.

The RSS feed is all fine and dandy. It’s valid, it’s namespaced correctly, and it’s got all but one of the required elements. The problem comes when you try to parse it with Magpie. Inside the “entry”, there’s a “title”. There’s also a “source”. The “source” has a “title” attribute as well.

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If Apple had actually put a lot of thought into the Spaces feature on Leopard, a lot of things would be different. Spaces seems to have been ripped out of whatever the deveoper’s favorite Linux desktop manager was, and pasted down in OSX with a bare minimum of programming work.

First …

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