Magpiebrain » Writing http://www.magpiebrain.com The blog of Sam Newman Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:01:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Article Theft http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/08/18/article-theft/ http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/08/18/article-theft/#comments Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:34:20 +0000 sam http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2006/08/18/article-theft/ A while ago, I wrote an “article”:http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/08/08/rss.html on RSS and the Java “Informa API”:http://informa.sourceforge.net/ for O’Reilly’s “java.net”:http://java.net site. This morning, my Google blog search called up an odd search result – it seems as though a certain Dr. Charlie Peng had copied the article wholesale for his BlogSpot blog, ‘IT Architect’. It looks like a blatant attempt to create a high-ranked blog in order to achieve something (probably commercial gain – I don’t think it’ll help him get girls). If achieving high-ranking is his goal, I’m sure he could of picked some better articles to steal, with some better buzzword density – RSS is _so_ 2003.

I’ve flagged the site, left a comment and informed O’Reilly. Knowing how responsive Google are at removing dodgy blogspot blogs, I don’t expect much to happen anytime soon – unless O’Reilly decide to throw so weight around that is. In the meantime, you can view the stolen article at “architectit dot blogspot dot com /2006/07/rss-in-jsp-using-rss-in-jsp-pages-by.html” (no link referrals for _him_) – although I’d prefer it if you simply read the original article over at “Java.net(Using RSS in JSP)”:http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/08/08/rss.html.

]]> http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/08/18/article-theft/feed/ 4 My article on IoC up at Java.net http://www.magpiebrain.com/2004/02/10/my-article-on-ioc-up-at-javanet/ http://www.magpiebrain.com/2004/02/10/my-article-on-ioc-up-at-javanet/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:11:22 +0000 sam http://www.magpiebrain.com/2004/02/10/my-article-on-ioc-up-at-javanet/ I’ve written an article giving a brief introduction on IoC for Java.net, and its been published today. For those of you already familiar with the concept it’s probably not terribly useful, but hopefully it’ll serve as a gentle introduction for those that have yet to look into it.

]]> http://www.magpiebrain.com/2004/02/10/my-article-on-ioc-up-at-javanet/feed/ 1 Second article on RSS and Java up http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/31/second-article-on-rss-and-java-up/ http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/31/second-article-on-rss-and-java-up/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:01:35 +0000 sam http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/31/second-article-on-rss-and-java-up/ Over at java.net, my second article, More RSS for Java is up.

]]> http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/31/second-article-on-rss-and-java-up/feed/ 2 Weather Forcasts via RSS http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/26/weather-forcasts-via-rss/ http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/26/weather-forcasts-via-rss/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:15:59 +0000 sam http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/26/weather-forcasts-via-rss/ Just found the site “RssWeather.com”:http://www.rssweather.com/, which as you can guess provides RSS feeds with weather forcasts. Its mostly centred around the US and Canada right now, but they have a feed for “London(RssWeather.com’s RSS 2.0 Feed for London)”:http://www.rssweather.com/rss.php?config=&forecast=zandh&icao=EGLL&alt=rss20 which is handy for me. It will also make a great example for my next article on RSS and Java…

]]> http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/26/weather-forcasts-via-rss/feed/ 0 Changes to the Informa API and the next article http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/16/changes-to-the-informa-api-and-the-next-article/ http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/16/changes-to-the-informa-api-and-the-next-article/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:23:25 +0000 sam http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/16/changes-to-the-informa-api-and-the-next-article/ Work is proceeding on my second article on the “Informa API”:http://informa.sourceforge.net/ – I’m currently refactoring the FeedManager class whose use forms the basis of the article. The FeedManager‘s job is to manage multiple feeds, and handle their lazy loading (which will fix a major flaw with the simple code presented in “my first article(Java.net – Using RSS in JSP pages)”:http://today.java.net/pub/a//today/2003/08/08/rss.html). I’m also getting to grips with OPML – support for which was added to Informa as of the 0.4.0 release by Niko Schmuck (Informa’s project manager), and will be adding a method to add channels from an OPML file to the FeedManager itself. All changes will be going back into the Informa code base – expect them to appear in the next release.

]]> http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/16/changes-to-the-informa-api-and-the-next-article/feed/ 0 My Article on OnJava.com http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/09/my-article-on-onjavacom/ http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/09/my-article-on-onjavacom/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:26:34 +0000 sam http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/09/my-article-on-onjavacom/ Seems my “article”:http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/08/08/rss.html on RSS and Java that I wrote for “java.net”:http://www.java.net/ has made its way over to “OnJava.com”:http://www.onjava,com/, albeit only via a link from the front page. The second instalment will get finished sometime next week – it covers more aspects of the Informa API and the use of OPML files.

]]> http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/10/09/my-article-on-onjavacom/feed/ 0 Apologies – not sure who to though http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/08/20/apologies-not-sure-who-to-though/ http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/08/20/apologies-not-sure-who-to-though/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:35:20 +0000 sam http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/08/20/apologies-not-sure-who-to-though/ I’m off to the “Leeds Festival”:http://www.leedsfestival.com/pages/index.asp this weekend, and I was supposed to have the first draft of my second article on Java and RSS done before I go. Whilst no-one was waiting for it especially, I’m very annoyed at myself that I didn’t get it done it time. All the background research is done, I just have to write it up – its 4 hours work at the most, and I’ve had two weeks to do it since I set this self-imposed deadline. I am supposed to be going to see “Beck”:http://www.beck.com/index.php at the “Brixton Academy”:http://www.brixton-academy.co.uk/brixton/pages/index.cfm tomorrow, but between a potentially long day at work and the need to get things ready before I head “up north(Guardian online – It’s grin up north)”:http://media.guardian.co.uk/bbc/story/0,7521,1014134,00.html on Friday, I might give it a miss – if so I’ll attempt to get something done.

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]]> http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/08/12/article-published/feed/ 0 Slow day today http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/07/31/slow-day-today/ http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/07/31/slow-day-today/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:03:13 +0000 sam http://www.magpiebrain.com/2003/07/31/slow-day-today/ As I’m putting the finishing touches to my article on Java & RSS. The submission deadline for the alterations is Monday but I’m hoping to finish it tonight so I can have the weekend clear.

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