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instantFeeds 1.0.6

Now with support for feeds protected by HTTP Basic Authentication and feeds that are served by a web server that uses an invalid certificate. Download the latest version or check out the source code.

Creating a Firefox Sidebar for Clearspace: Part I

It’s been embarassingly quiet on this blog of late, I apologize for all the delicious links, although a case could be made that blogs were originally nothing more than sharing links so maybe I shouldn’t be apologizing, but that’s a different blog post. Today I want to talk about the thing I’ve been working [...]

Using a custom socket factory with HttpClient

The documentation on how to use a custom socket factory in HttpClient is actually pretty good, but there’s one thing they don’t make very clear. If you want to specify a per-host socket factory like this:

Protocol p = new Protocol(”https”, new MySSLSocketFactory(), 443);
HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
httpclient.getHostConfiguration().setHost(”example.com”, 443, p);
GetMethod httpget = new GetMethod(”/mypath”);

you must specify [...]

instantFeeds 1.0.5

Now with support for proxy servers. Read about the new configuration options or download the latest version.

Public Health and Information Technology

Jon Udell posted the transcript of his conversation with Dr. Joel Selanikio (who, as the co-founder of DataDyne, is in the business of collecting public health data in developing countries) last Thursday, which I believe was right about the same time I finished a book I picked up at my parents house while on vacation. [...]

instantFeeds 1.0.4

I rolled out a new version of instantFeeds tonight, you can read all about the new features / bug fixes here. The big feature is that now all notifications will include the title, link and summary of every item in the feed whose publication date is later than the date of the last notification the [...]

Free Ticket to OSCON

Gotcha! Please excuse the corporate shilling for a second: the company I work for, Jive Software, is running a pretty cool promotion right now: write up a blog post about how you or your company is using Clearspace, Jive Forums, Openfire or Spark and if you’re blog post is selected as the most thorough, [...]

instantFeeds 1.0.3

New version of instantFeeds: version 1.0.3. It includes a two new features: you can now turn off your notifications by sending the command ‘off’ (kind of like an out of office feature) and turn them back on by sending the command ‘on’ and the notification you get sent now includes an approximately 255 character [...]

instantFeeds 1.0.2

I uploaded a new version of instantFeeds tonight: version 1.0.2 includes a couple new features (including feed auto-discovery using HTML Parser) and some minor tweaks / bug fixes. Check out the release notes, the source repository or just skip to the good parts and download the plugin.

instantFeeds 1.0.1

I updated the instantFeeds plugin tonight to fix a couple bugs with the postgres and hsqldb installation scripts that the guys on the Ignite Realtime site found. You can download 1.0.1 (again, assuming you have already!) and get the latest snapshot of the code here.