Ravi S. Iyer: Worldly

Readers may want to have a look at my recent post in another blog of mine: Upskilling to MERN web developer: Finished 2nd round of Roadmap to Learning Full Stack Web Development, https://raviswdev.blogspot.com/2024/03/upskilling-to-mern-web-developer.html .

Last updated on 31 Mar. 2024 Common web feed formats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed states that the following are the common web feed formats: Atom,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(web_standard) JSON Feed,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Feed   RSS,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Blogger uses Atom 1.0 feed format by default Complete Guide to RSS Feed on Blogspot,  https://www.innateblogger.com/2021/08/rss-feed-on-blogspot.html states that a feed URL like https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default will use Atom 1.0 format. To make it use RSS 2.0 format, ?alt=rss has to be added to end of URL like https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss .  Hmm. I did not know or did not recall that it was so simple to get Blogger blog feeds in RSS 2.0, which is the default format used by WordPress. Blogger Reference Guide, https://developers.google.com/blogger/docs/2.0/reference has the " Blogger query parameters reference " section, which sta

I recently created a shortcuts directory on my desktop for me to be able to easily access the latest versions of my Blogger and WordPress blog book gen(erator) programs. I then wrote an info.txt file explaining what the shortcuts are and how to use them. While these shortcuts are meaningful only on desktop, I thought I should put up this blog post version of the info.txt file where I replace the desktop directory and file names data with links to related Google Drive directory and file names. For Blogger blogs A) Generate Blog Book From Blogger Export/Backup XML file: VB.Net program location (info.txt file has the github link for the source code):  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zxJOGtFWXeKqH0LaJNnwMktnpo1BsDbK   Minor known issue: The footer in output file refers to an older post. It should instead refer to post mentioned below. Related blog post: Ported ExportFileFilterAndGenBook and ExportFileFilterByIndexList from VBA to BlogBackupToBook VB.Net single project of Visual Stu

Quick-Info WPBlogFeedToBook VBA program for WordPress blogs' RSS feed:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vGqaEQJmnfwpWPeEOuryW7ZhSqvm05kS?usp=drive_link BloggerBlogFeedToBook VBA program for Blogger blogs' RSS feed:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_DEvH8MHiXXMe-3htCPhnOB5nE0lSfN-?usp=drive_link Above programs may work for any WordPress and Blogger blogs respectively but I have tested them only for my blogs as that is my need. ------------------------ It would be convenient for me to be able to periodically create an HTML blog book of my recent posts in my ravisiyer.wordpress.com blog. This would be a useful backup file for me. The XML backup/export file for the whole blog is vital but it is for the whole blog and is not easily readable content. I can create a blogbook for the whole blog using a VBA program I had created some months ago  but that is more stuff than required in such cases. As of now, I do not have a filter program that filters the WordPress XML ba

BlogBackupToBook software creates HTML blogbook(s) from Blogger blog XML Backup/Export files. It also allows for filtering the output HTML blogbook(s) by content matching strings, by published and/or updated date range and by an index(es) list where the index(es) are positions of posts and pages entries in the Blogger XML Backup/Export file.  Github: https://github.com/ravisiyer/BlogBackupToBook As compared to release v3, the latest release v4 has undergone more tests but it has not been thoroughly tested. I do not have the time now to do that thorough testing and bug-fixing as I have got busy with other stuff. This is the release interested persons can try out and see if it meets their needs. If I recall correctly, the setup file program in v3 release had some issues which were not easily getting resolved. The setup file part has been dropped in this release v4 as I don't have time for refreshing where I was on it, and then taking it forward. This current v4 release does not have

BlogToBook, https://github.com/oormicreations/BlogToBook , seemed to be a promising software when I first came across it. My first attempt to install the software had failed some months ago, if I recall correctly. But when I installed it again today, it went through! I think the difference is that I now have Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition set up on my system and so it would have installed some libraries needed by the program executable. I also tried cloning the Github repo using Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition. Visual Studio said I need to install some more software and prompted me for it. I started that install but for some issue from my side (I was fiddling with the Internet link), the install tripped up. Perhaps if I try installing it again it will work (Visual Studio gives a link for the components to install). But is it worth it? While I may quickly browse through the C++ source code, I don't think I want to understand its working and attempt modifications. So I do