Jane Dallaway

Jane Dallaway

Jane Dallaway  //  Service Delivery manager, photographer, dog owner, gardener, reader, learner, software developer and occasional snowboarder

This blog contains all sorts of bits and bobs, from development related stuff, through process and productivity stuff, to photography stuff, and general inspiration things. It's a bit all over the place with no real theme, but then so am I

Email: jane @ dallaway.com
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Oct 28 2008

Brighton Bloggers: Aggregation

A few days ago one of the Brighton Bloggers mentioned that the aggregated feed didn't seem to have had any new content since July. On investigation the provider I was using, blogdigger, had stopped generating content so I needed a new solution. I already have an OPML file which contains the list of the RSS feeds so this seemed like a good place to start.

I did a bit of a search to find a method, and thought about using yahoo pipes. After a bit of googling around I found an Aggregated RSS feed from OPML which seemed to be just the thing. So I cloned it, simplified it and produced a Brighton Bloggers aggregated feed.

I've produced quite a few pipes, and it continues to be a really useful tool. Thanks Yahoo!

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Nov 7 2007

Brighton and Hove Web Awards - Brighton Bloggers is shortlisted

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Web Awards Nomination
Brighton Bloggers has been shortlisted on the Brighton and Hove Web Awards list in the Best Local Online Community category.

This is vaguely amusing as it because of my involvement with the Web Awards in 2003 that Brighton Bloggers was born out of a list produced by Joh. It was originally intended to last for the length of the festival, but I felt this was a waste and decided to create Brighton Bloggers with help, support and encouragement at the time from Pete and Jeremy.

Time has moved on, and the site now lists 267 bloggers who either work or live in Brighton and another successful meetup happened just last week.

Please consider supporting Brighton Bloggers by submitting your vote

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Oct 16 2007

Catch up and badges

I've had a bit of a catch up today, firstly, a long overdue session updating Brighton Bloggers with newly submitted blogs. I've also organised a meetup to coincide with the Brighton Digital Festival.

Next up was a small change in the look of the Jane and Richard home page. It is now picking up the latest photo of my flickr feed using a flickr badge.

Finally a couple of additions to the Work page here at jane.dallaway.com to display my upcoming events via the upcoming badge, and my latest tweet via the twitter badge.

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Jul 9 2007

Brighton Bloggers Meetup

As mentioned the other day I put together a collage of blog screen shots for 279 of the sites listed at Brighton Bloggers. If you look really closely, there are some which are just directory listings, even a couple of blank pages. Anyway, this was produced on A3 and A2 paper thanks to Kirsty and James at Brightenup and taken along to the meetup. It was met with interest although a magnifying glass might have helped :-)

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May 31 2007

Brighton Bloggers aggregated RSS

I've just added a new section to Brighton Bloggers to take the last 30 or so blogs from the aggregated RSS feed and display them on the site. Hopefully, for those who don't want to read all the posts via RSS they can still get a flavour of what is on offer from participants.

It is written in PHP and is a customised version of the PHP RSS Reader originally written by Richard James Kendall. The script was really easy to customise and I'm really pleased with how it looks. I could do with a better word than Aggregated though, so if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

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Mar 29 2007

Brighton Bloggers

I've just posted a request for comments over at Brighton Bloggers - a site I've been looking after for the past 4 or so years, and which is mainly hand coded HTML without an admin site (which when there are now 268 blogs makes it pretty time intensive). Feel free to add your feedback and comments on how I should improve the site - especially with regards to categorisation etc when I embark on writing an admin site.

Thanks!

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Dec 20 2006

January is going to be busy

It looks like January is going to be a busy month. The first Brighton girl geek dinner is happening on January 16th, the eighth Sussex Geek dinner is happening on the 17th and the long overue Brighton Bloggers meetup is happening on the 23rd.
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Dec 4 2006

Google Co-op

One of the Brighton Bloggers, Paul Silver, did some ground work on Google Co-op for me. He created us a Brighton Bloggers search, and added a load of sites to it and added me as a contributor. Unfortunately as a contributor I could only add sites, I couldn't see what had already been added, neither could I configure the look and feel. But, Paul assured me it was straightforward so today I gave it a go, and can now unveil the Brighton Bloggers Search page. I've added the 248 sites which we currently have registered on the site, and have added it to my list of things to do when adding new blogs to the list.

For some reason the markup returned from Google includes a vast amount of white space after the searches, and I haven't yet worked out why, despite rummaging through the documentation.

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