Joe Gregorio
My latest article Secure RSS Syndication, is up on XML.com. In this article I present a Greasemonkey script to make FireFox decrypt a Blowfish-encrypted feed shown in Bloglines on the fly. And the encrypted data, it's held in a microformat.
We're playing buzzword bingo.
I win.
Source code and test feed are available.
Update: This project explains my interest in which web-based aggregators preserve microformats.
Ha! I have a Greasemonkey book that explains how to add a Textile parser to textareas. The book was written by one person, who explained how the script was written by a second person, then improved by a third person by integrating code written by a fourth person, who based his code on the work of a fifth person, who in turn based his code on the work of a sixth person.
I don't win anything, but I really enjoyed saying all that.
PS - The second person was Roberto. (Hey Roberto!) The first and fifth persons were me.
Dean wrote Textile in PHP. I ported it to Python as PyTextile. Jeff ported PyTextile to Javascript as JsTextile. Roberto wrote a "Textile It!" Greasemonkey script that hit a CGI script that called PyTextile. Phil integrated Roberto's Greasemonkey script with Jeff's JsTextile library to create a purely client-side version. I wrote up Phil's script and the entire backstory in "Greasemonkey Hacks". (In stores in November! Pirate it now and avoid the rush!)
PPS - Hey Joe, want to cut that article down to 500 words and get published in an O'Reilly book?
Posted by Mark on 2005-07-14
Posted by anonymous on 2005-07-15
Mark,
Ok, I win at buzzword bingo, but you just won at buzzword pachinko.
Sure, I'd love to trim that article down and get it published in an O'Reilly book.
-joe
Posted by Joe on 2005-07-15
I have a Greasemonkey script that adds a Textile parser to textareas using a XML HTTP Request to a Python CGI script.
I win. :)
Posted by Roberto on 2005-07-13