Dr.K: News Machine

Having tried both methods of RSS to HTML - I have decided to use BuzzBoost from FeedBurner rather than RSS Include.

My reasons:

(i) RSSInclude only provides for 10 news items and BuzzBoost allows for unlimited items

(ii) BuzzBoost supports more in the way of CSS than RSSInclude and can be configured any way I choose.

Not that I am unhappy with the service that RSSInclude gives - just that as my feeds are coming off FeedBurner anyhow, and that I can customize the BuzzBoost code to give me more control over the look and feel of the News-Machine pages - means that it wins hands down.

For now ...

Tags: feedburner, buzzboost, rss, html, headlines, rssinclude, rsstools

Posted by drk at 04:51 PM | Permalink

Because my main blog moved host and URL this weekend I was re-assigning DNS for the hackershandbook domain and managed to totally break this weblog.

It now looks like its fixed - the problem stemmed from an incorrect URL pointing to the CSS used for this site.

Sorry about the problems - normal service has now been resumed.

If I've missed any links and anything is broken - let me know.

Posted by drk at 02:35 PM | Permalink

New section of News Machine focussed on business IT solutions and IT Operations / Infrastructure management.

I worked for years as an IT grunt sysadmin and network admin - but being an IT Infrastructure manager gave me a different perspective to a systems or network perspective - one that was business orientated rather than tech-orientated - with regard to my approach to IT.

Anyway I knocked out a quick list last night and built the page - enjoy - and if there's anything else IT management related that you are interested in - let me know.

Tags: it operations, it management, it news, business it

Posted by drk at 01:13 PM | Permalink