So I was thinking, wouldn’t it be nice if the Australian Dictionary of Biography‘s ‘born on this day‘ feature could be made available as an RSS feed. Every morning you’d get a new list of biographies delivered direct to your feed reader. And so…
[sounds of xpath wrangling and PHP coding]It’s pretty simple – it harvests all the links of people born on the current day, then loops through the links to gather the first paragraph of each biography. Then it’s just a matter of writing everything to an RSS file. Read MoreADB DIY RSS