More news about BibDesk - although it's on feature-add hiatus, I've given a little bit of thought to how the RSS feature will improve over the next few revisions.

The first major change will be that it will become an RSS 1.0 feed, and have an element that is some representation (either in bibTeX source or some BibTeXML DTD) of the complete original item. It will need to be RSS 1.0 for this so I can use the dublin core module's dc:source item.

It is now looking like the right way to do this will also have the happy result of allowing BibDesk to import/export bibTeXML formatted files. I believe that setting this up will bring the infrastructure of the app a few large steps closer to supporting a bunch of file formats (although not necessarily natively - probably the focus would be on bibTeX compatibility, so these formats would get converted.)
6:29:41 PM    ...comment? ()

It is a little disappointing that I haven't heard from any people using the RSS feature to publish their papers-list.

I do know that a few people noticed it, so there's that. I'll give it time.

In fact, despite having a sample up at http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/compilers.rss, I don't have one for my papers yet either. (seems silly to have it for just one ";)" ) I'll have to get on that.
6:25:26 PM    ...comment? ()

Well, BibDesk has been out for a couple days now - about 200 people got it from VersionTracker, and I have no idea how many got it from my CSE web page.

I suppose the release should be considered a success, since there were major changes and I've only heard good comments so far. (Thanks again to Matthew Bice for the icon help!)
6:23:12 PM    ...comment? ()

Having a weblog is an interesting thing... Over the last few weeks, many of the visits (more than half) to my weblog have been from google searches whose queries were some variation of the "there are 10 types of people in the world..." joke. Odd. I wonder if those people found anything else interesting here.
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