Thoughts / Misc: February 2008 Archives

From a less than inspired blog post comes an awesome comment:

"Autotest is like a super duper little build monkey who throws poo whenever your tests fail."

This adds uniform search across blogdigger, yahoo, and google. findory is dead. feedster and daypop simply suck and weren't worth all the timeouts.

tell application "NetNewsWire"
  activate
  set search_terms to {"%22Eric+Hodel%22", "%22Ryan+Davis%22", "ImageScience", "ParseTree", "RubyInline", "ZenHacks", "autotest", "image_science", "ruby+heckle", "ruby+obfuscator", "ruby2c", "vlad+ruby", "zenspider", "zentest"}
  repeat with search_term in search_terms
    set the_url to "http://www.blogdigger.com/rss.jsp?queryString=" & search_term & "&sortby=date&days=20"
    subscribe to the_url

    set the_url to "http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=" & search_term
    subscribe to the_url

    set the_url to "http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&tab=wb&q=" & search_term & "&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss"
    subscribe to the_url

    -- dead
    -- set the_url to "http://www.findory.com/rss/Blogs?q=" & search_term
    -- subscribe to the_url

    -- sucks
    -- set the_url to "http://feedster.com/search.php?q=" & search_term & "&sort=date&ie=UTF-8&limit=15&type=rss"
    -- subscribe to the_url

    -- sucks
    -- set the_url to "http://www.daypop.com/search?q=" & search_term & "&s=1&c=10&t=a&o=rss"
    -- subscribe to the_url
  end repeat
end tell