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14 Dec 09

10:50 PM MDT

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FeedBurner is awesome, Github is breaking, and this is a test

FeedBurner has a new feature out, since Google announced their URL shortener. I originally had logic to shorten the permalinks with tr.im, then post to Twitter, but since FeedBurner can do this now, I’m not going to do it. I like to outsource that kind of stuff, which I’ll talk about in a later post. Also in the news today, Github is having some problems, but they’ll be back soon, so don’t you worry. All in all, this is more of a test to see h...


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20 Jul 09

02:02 PM MDT

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Feedburner fiasco, Part 3

(See Part 2) Well I found the proper ping URL, http://ping.feedburner.google.com/, and it looks like everything is supposedly working as advertised. No doubt I’ll be keeping an eye on things for the next little while… Google Reader also seems to be a bit slow too. EDIT: Nope. 37 minutes after publishing even with the ping and Feedburner doesn’t have it yet. Changing plugins for giggles.


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20 Jul 09

12:10 PM MDT

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Feedburner fiasco, Part 2

(See Part 1) My initial thought was that Feedburner was just getting redirected to itself, but the code is there in the plugin, and does work, but added a ping, so hopefully this actually makes it update a bit faster… It’s probably some sort of caching issue, which I’m investigating as well.


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20 Jul 09

11:38 AM MDT

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Feedburner seems behind the times...

In that, my feed doesn’t get updated fast enough. I had a post go out at 8 AM, then at 8:47 AM, and they both showed up at just after noon. Anybody else experiencing this? I’ll probably follow up if I fix this.


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