Radio UserLand Notes

Patrick Ritchie "Don't believe in the power of Blogs to market your software? My Master Ping tool is currently #1 on Google when searching for 'Master Ping' and #3 under 'ping tool'.

Besides writing about the tool on this Blog and sending one or two emails I have done absolutely zero marketing."

Here's the [scoop](http://weather.gov/data/forecasts/xml/) on the NWS weather in XML...

Update: that link is very techie, talking about the weather forecast data in XML available via a SOAP interface. Good stuff. If you want RSS, you [want this page](http://weather.gov/data/current_obs/) that shows you how to generate your own RSS and get a list of all of the stations to boot ([even in XML](http://weather.gov/data/current_obs/index.xml))

Weather script has been updated--download it [here](http://houseofwarwick.com/gems/weather.ftsc). It now uses the aggregator in Radio instead of a custom table location. If you pass the script the RSS URL, it will subscribe to the service for you and then parse and create the HTML.

The hard part is figuring out the URL so I put some notes in the script to show you how I did it. The NOAA/NWS site doesn't list these feeds anywhere and that's a shame.

[Andy Fragen](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001017/) is still refining his Markdown tool and in a recent post, [he describes the .96 changes](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001017/2005/02/22.html#a411). Hey Andy--you can get the list of installed tools and their status in Radio at user.tools

Engadget says that [PalmSource is switching from HotSync to SyncML](http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000680032897/). That's a good thing, open formats make things easier to work on interop. I'd love to sync my Treo 600 with Radio one day.