Look!

[telophase]

What is it? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Or is it ... a totally working RSS parser that includes working HTML tags in the "What's New?" section?





Plz to not be harshing my squee by pointing out the page doesn't validate* or any of the myriad design flaws** or the appearance of the blogs themselves***. In fact, the most appropriate sorts of comments here would be the sort that are like "OMG U R SO AWESOME!!11!!" because YOU DO NOT KNOW how much beating my head against the desk this stupid thing caused me.****


* It can't, thanks to the catalog search box. Fixing the box to validate breaks it to search.

** We're in the process of redesigning the site, but the appearance of the site is not something we're looking at for a long time to come. We're focusing on the preliminaries first, which involve usability studies, focus groups, etc.

*** My next task: to get with the subject librarians and work out what we all want and don't want on the blogs and to create a new set of customized templates.

**** In fact, I think this calls for Kenpachi.

Comments

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

OMG U R SO AWESOME!!11!!
=DDD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I KNOW!!!

Seriously, it's such a relief to get this damn thing working.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling well. ^_^ I have just been handed a Web application (written in asp/VB with Perl files, Crystal reports, interfacing with an SQL database which draws it's information from a Mainframe) and was told to, "make it work". Not only is the web site being migrated but so is the database AND the mainframe! IF I can get this all working by the switchover date it will be a miracle. XD

/babbling

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I only have to deal with malicious subject guides. I think they change the tab order COMPLETELY AT RANDOM to mess with me. I figured out that it was the tab order changing that periodically messes up the guides, but for the life of me, I have no idea how or why they change or how to fix it.

I don't even remember how I figured out it was the tab order that was the problem. :/

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

Err, congratulations, it's a webpage? :D I wouldn't even know where to start with something like that. Sooo...

OMG U R SO AWESOME!!11!!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D

Basically, I took this blog's entries (http://blogs.lib.tcu.edu/blogs/whatsnew/) and fed them to the What's New section of the library website. Which seems like it ought to be easy, but...

[chomiji]

OMG, you are so talented, woman!

:-D

That's awesome. And you did it on your lonesome!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

THAT IS SO RIGHT!!! (Well, sometimes you just need a bit of self-aggrandizement! XD)

Once I switched to the Atom feed, I was able to pull out just the text of the post. After that, it was a matter of figuring out how to search and replace using regular expressions in VBscript. Wordpress is way too damn fond of those curly quotes.