I have done my own (small) part for open source software…
A Perl implementation of Zope’s TAL named Petal recently had an upgrade in features.
This upgrade caused previous (and correct) behavior to not occur.
I emailed their mailing list. (Here’s a link to the post)
about this issue and later submitted a test to demonstrate the incorrect behavior.
The same day, the Petal developers fixed the problem and uploaded a new version to CPAN.
I love Open Source Software!
The program AmphetaDesk is great!
Similar to what I’m able to do with ‘syndication’ of Ed’s site to my own, I’m able to grab the syndications (or RSS/Rich Site Summary) of a bunch of sites that I read and the syndications are made into one easy-to-scan page.
This makes web browsing a lot more efficient.
Anyway, I like that AmphetaDesk can read a bunch of syndicated sites through RSS, but there is one site that it doesn’t parse:
PerlMonks.
I’ve made a patch to the 0.93.1 (CVS) code, though.
If you apply it to AmphetaDesk’s source and point AmphetaDesk at:
http://www.perlmonks.org/headlines.rdf
Then you too can read Perlmonks via Amphetadesk.