nick.recoil.org » ruby http://nick.recoil.org Connector in, receiver out Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:39:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 mythRecommend http://nick.recoil.org/2009/03/mythrecommend/ http://nick.recoil.org/2009/03/mythrecommend/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:48:00 +0000 nick I’ve pushed my beta code for mythRecommend to Github. It’s a system which allows you to subscribe to a source of regular TV recommendations, and have those recommendations automatically get translated into concrete recording schedule for a MythTV system.

Once a recording has been made, the recording schedule is made dormant, so it will not clutter your existing schedule list as time goes on. You can decide if you would like to turn that recommended program into a permanent schedule or not, and reinstate it if desired.

I hope to add more feed parsers as the code matures, but as things stand there is only one written, specifically for The Guardian here in the UK.

]]> http://nick.recoil.org/2009/03/mythrecommend/feed/ 0 Mephisto plugin to allow self-updating links http://nick.recoil.org/2007/09/mephisto-plugin-to-allow-self-updating-links/ http://nick.recoil.org/2007/09/mephisto-plugin-to-allow-self-updating-links/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:52:00 +0000 nick I’ve placed a page under code which details a little plugin I’ve been working on for Mephisto. It’s designed to make links in your templates which need to point to the latest software release always valid. It scans a directory according to a shell glob expression, and gives back a block with the file path, name and version as local variables.

The shell glob expression can be passed in via the liquid template, as per normal with mephisto plugins, or it can be passed in as a special tag attached to the page which is being rendered. This allows per-page links, rather than per-template, and gives greater flexibility.

More information is on the dynamic file link page.

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