I’m subscribed to Apple’s movie trailers feed and I watch them from time to time because they are usually released way before the premiere and this allows me to keep track of good movies without being overwhelmed with information. But I was so frustrated with not being able to track which movies I want to watch so I decided to add “Add to Google Calendar” button to in-feed controls so now all feeds I’m subscribed to through Feed Friends will have this button as well as Feed Friends Toolbar.

Here’s the calendar of the movies I’m going to go to (will be updated as I’ll watch more trailers).

P.S. it’s been a while since I added code to Feed Friends.

I realized that when I need to use new Open Source project, I add it to Ohloh (if it’s not there yet) to see what they have to say about it.

The only problem is that I’m too lazy to do that every time I need to use some software. I wonder why Ohloh doesn’t just use Google to find all SVN repos to crawl?

It’s first time for me to see somebody else’s project on the domain I registered.

Here’s my feed if you’re interested: http://friendfeed.com/sergeychernyshev

P.S. almost like http://sergeychernyshev.feedfriends.com/ ;)

I spent some time this weekend writing a new kind of application - Facebook application.

It’s quite interesting how they built their platform and they are probably first to do this kind of thing, at least among big players.

Anyway, come and take a looks at Friends Explorer application. Currently it shows birthday time-lines for your friends, but more features will follow (only if you’ll add it ;)).

It looks like Facebook is not the only one to create web application platforms.

I haven’t been publishing about many changes in Feed Friends and I can’t really remember everything I did but today I finally got tired of link toolbar to only have Feed Friends share button and not to have Digg, del.icio.us and the rest so I changed this processor to include all In-Feed Controls I configured in processing customization page.

So, even if you don’t use Feed Friends sharing functionality, you can still enjoy Feed Preprocessor part of the system and use it to get If-Feed controls to work for you.

P.S. Actually Feed Preprocessor configurator allows you to pick more controls then listed on infeedcontrols.com and they include: del.icio.us, Technorati search, Digg, Feed Friends, Newsvine, Fark, Reddit, Yahoo! My Web and Netscape.

I fixed annoying bug in XML::RSS::LibXML which rendered multiple tags as one tag with value of ARRAY(…).

It was most often seen when multiple categories were assigned to feed item but affected all duplicate tags (I fixed similar problem specifically with enclosures earlier).

Hope that will not break feeds any more.

Just a note: I didn’t see any records in access logs on old server for a while and disabled all fetching on old servers as well as web site instances.
It should not affect anybody except those site owners who’s feeds fetcher was double-crawling - now it’ll only do it once.

Let me know if you’ll have any problems getting your feeds.

As many of you noticed, there were several registration-related bugs. I fixed most of them yesterday/today but if you still have troubles registering or logging in, let me know and ‘ll try to fix them ASAP.

I’m really sorry that users were trying to register but failed to complete the process and went away. To remedy the problem at least partially, I created a page to resend an email with confirmation code (which didn’t reach some people and they are stuck in the middle of the process). I also added some links back and forth to make it harder to get lost during registration process, hope that helps.

I also fixed strange bug (a product of trash-OOP conversion process) with feed fetching failure when you just added it - please let me know if it’ll happen again.

I moved Feed Friends (and Feed Preprocessor) to new faster server. It was planned for a while and I was setting server up but today I finally moved it.

I updated DNS and I hope you will not see any glitches but in case you are still directed to old servers, you’ll have Access Denied error page - it means your DNS servers still cache old IPs.

Feeds will be updated on both old and new servers for a while to avoid problems with feed readers freaking out. There might be some unusual bugs though if you share your item or adding new feed already using new server but your feed reader still goes to old one (especially if you’re using some web-based feed reader) - reader will not get updated feed as you might expect.
Also i planned to put magic “beta” mark next to the title for a while and now it’s a good time. Once I moved whole thing to new server I hope to proceed with fixing bugs and adding new features.

Please let me know if you’ll find some problems with new server - best way is by adding comments to this post.

Thank you for your patience!