Comments on: NetNewsFlix

By: Alan Fraser

Alan Fraser — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:33:46 +0000

That’s an elegant solution. I’m surprised to see Excel mentioned in the same context but there’s no accounting for taste. In any case, it’s a nice job and could well extend to other useful purposes. Or perhaps pick up the feed in PHP to present on your own site. I’ve found PHP useful in that way as people can preview my feeds without needing to subscribe to them. Anyway, nice job. Thanks.

By: Nick Valvo

Nick Valvo — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:27:10 +0000

RE: Netflix Freak.

It would be useful.

By: sjk

sjk — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:25:26 +0000

Has your friend tried Netflix Freak? I haven’t (no subscription, yet) so I can’t say whether or not it would be useful.

By: Andy Kim

Andy Kim — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 03:57:47 +0000

Oh you guys are such programming jocks. I would have probably busted out python to parse the html and be really proud of myself too.

The sad thing is, if a user is a bit smart, they can probably achieve the same results faster by copying and pasting the html into excel… After a bit of cleanup, that list can go anywhere from there.

BTW, I want to thank you Daniel for all of your posts in the cocoa-dev mailing list. They have been really helpful.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:58:40 +0000

Nice work, Brian. I hope you’re still reading when I really want some help optimizing a script :)

By: Brian Webster

Brian Webster — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:55:42 +0000

Yeah, it doesn’t matter to most humans if it’s efficient, but I can’t resist a good Applescript optimization challenge. :-) Here’s what I got it down to:
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return tell application "NetNewsWire" to set theText to (title of every headline of selectedSubscription) as string tell application "TextEdit" to set text of (make new document) to theText
Three lines, baby! Yeah!
(OK, back to work…)