Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category

feedextractor – a quick and dirty python script to grab lots of feeds from web pages

Posted on February 4, 2008, 10:18 pm, by jamiegrove, under Open Source, RSS, python.

While looking for new feeds to add to my RSS reader (NetNewsWire), I thought it might be nice to have a utility that would let me grab a web page, spider all of the outbound links, check to see which pages had feeds, and then create an opml file of new feeds I didn’t have [...]

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Corporate Finance and Open Source

Posted on January 9, 2008, 11:46 am, by jamiegrove, under IT, Open Source.

For those of you banging your head on why it is difficult to get needed IT expenditures approved, Paul Keeble offers the following, highly-accurate, explanation:
In corporations Open source is thriving, and not because its the strategy:
In large corporations if you need to buy a tool for development, especially one no one has used before good [...]

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