Building the Birmingham Geeks site

Syndicated weblogs

• Save the websites of people you want to be in it in your del.icio.us account under a specific tag, with the title of each being the name of the person
• Use the Yahoo pipe http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=Sh_mr1Yc3BGcubGljUnRlg and fill in your del.icio.us username and the tag you used
• Get the results as RSS, which in this case is http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=Sh_mr1Yc3BGcubGljUnRlg&_render=rss&delicious=sil&delicioustag=birminghamgeeks
• Escape the URL to get http%3A//pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run%3F_id%3DSh_mr1Yc3BGcubGljUnRlg%26_render%3Drss%26delicious%3Dsil%26delicioustag%3Dbirminghamgeeks
• Drop that URL on the end here to get an HTML version with specified width etc: http://www.rss-info.com/rss2.php?integration=php&windowopen=0&number=10&width=300&ifbgcol=FFFFFF&bordercol=D0D0D0&textbgcol=F0F0F0&rssbgcol=F0F0F0&showrsstitle=0&showtext=1&rss=http%3A//pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run%3F_id%3DSh_mr1Yc3BGcubGljUnRlg%26_render%3Drss%26delicious%3Dsil%26delicioustag%3Dbirminghamgeeks

List of people

• Use rss-info again to convert the del.icio.us list directly to HTML: http://www.rss-info.com/rss2.php?integration=php&windowopen=0&number=10&width=300&ifbgcol=FFFFFF&bordercol=D0D0D0&textbgcol=F0F0F0&rssbgcol=F0F0F0&showrsstitle=0&showtext=0&rss=http%3A//del.icio.us/rss/sil/birminghamgeeks

List of events

• Again with the conversion: this time get the RSS feed for your events. Upcoming do a feed-per-tag, like http://upcoming.yahoo.com/syndicate/v2/tag/oxfordgeeks so use that in http://www.rss-info.com/rss2.php?integration=php&windowopen=0&number=10&width=300&ifbgcol=FFFFFF&bordercol=D0D0D0&textbgcol=F0F0F0&rssbgcol=F0F0F0&showrsstitle=0&showtext=1&rss=http%3A//upcoming.yahoo.com/syndicate/v2/tag/oxfordgeeks

Convert each to well-formatted XHTML

• Use serpent: http://serprest.pt/cocoon/ws/html2xml.xml?url=(escaped URL)
• The URL will be double-escaped in places!