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 Thursday, June 17, 2004
Scott and I sat down over lunch today and he (once again) proved his l33t development skills, all while teaching me some new stuff... In the end, we had the new RSS Feed to dasBlog Content Converter to show for our (primarily his) efforts. From Scott's site: Greg Hughes once had a LiveJournal Blog and the only remnant of his blog was an RSS Feed/Archive. Now that he runs dasBlog he wanted to move his old content forward into dasBlog. So, we googled a bit and couldn't find a tool that would take an RSS (2.0) feed as input and put the entries into dasBlog. So we made one over lunch, and here it is: RSStoDasBlog.zip (219.29 KB) RSStoDasBlog.exe MyRssFile.xml "C:\documents and settings\whatever\dasblog\content" Use it like this by pointing it to the RSS file and your (local) dasBlog content folder. It will create all the needed dayentry.xml files for you to upload to your remote blog. It will also (I think) take an http:// url to an RSS file and could be used to (possible as a service?) steal RSS and mirror them in dasBlog. Thanks to Jerry (Chris) Maguire's RSS Framework that showed up first in Google and saved me the time of running XSD.exe on an RSS XML schema. Apparently he has even newer stuff on his site. It's got a few more moving parts than I think it needs to, but it did the job with a few changes that I marked with my initials; SDH.
Thanks to Scott both for teaching me and for helping me get the content migrated over. I'm a lame IT-management-type of guy, not a coder, but it was truly fun to learn a little something and to find that I was able to follow what he was showing me. Of course, it doesn't hurt that Scott's probably the best technical speaker/teacher I have ever met. I'm lucky to work with a number of really creative people that also happen to be really, really smart. Speaking of really creative and smart people, Travis is now a MSDBA in addition to being a MCSD - which is both very cool and a big deal (not mention quite an accomplishment). Not many have the MCSD certification, and even fewer have both. Congrats, Trav!
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