Category Archives: rfeedparser

libiconv and rFeedParser

I got a chance to read libiconv’s DESIGN document (found in the tarball) and noticed this passage:

Extensibility The dlopen(3) approach is good for guaranteeing extensibility if the iconv implementation is distributed without source. (Or when, as in glibc, you cannot rebuild iconv without rebuilding your libc, [...]

On rFeedParser

This post is huge but I have not the time to make it smaller. I’m so very tired.

A Quick Introduction

rFeedParser is a RSS/Atom feed parser. It is a translation of Mark Pilgrim’s feedparser from Python to Ruby. It behaves almost exactly the same and passes somewhere near 99% of the tests on a [...]

Friggin’ Module Bundles

What was one of the things I wanted the most when I started writing rFeedParser?

This.