Then, just point any ajax enabled browser at the runTests.php file. You can see it in action here.

Unfortunately, I could not think of any nice cross-language way to write the expect condition, and so I wrote some scripts (similar to Sam Ruby’s scripts) to statically convert the python expect condition to php. Writing the correct expect condition is much harder than I thought. My goal is to port about 1000 or so feedparser tests that I care about (out of the 3000 that exist) and make changes to Magpie without regressing anything. Then I will put this branch version of Magpie back into the Gregarius trunk.

1. Why are you stealing my newlines?

   For some strange reason newlines at the end of files seem to be eaten. Take a look at these two php files.
   
< ?php
echo "This string has no newline at the end";
?>

   and
   
< ?php
echo "This first string has a newline at the end\n";
?>

   If you wget these two files (file1, file2) you will see that they are exactly the same. Who took my newline at the end of the second file?

2. Why don’t you be polite and flush?

   This is a slightly more serious problem as it prevents Gregarius’ serverpush method for updating feeds from working on my dreamhost server. I took a very simple serverpush example from the XUL Planet Developer Guide and put it on my dreamhost server.
   
< ?php
  header('Content-type: multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary="rn9012"');

     print "--rn9012\n";
     print "Content-type: application/xml\n\n";
     print "< ?xml version='1.0'?>\n";
     print "First Part\n";
     print "--rn9012\n";
     flush();

     sleep(5);
     print "Content-type: application/xml\n\n";
     print "< ?xml version='1.0'?>\n";
     print "Second Part\n";
     print "--rn9012--\n";

   ?>

If you are using a Gecko browser and you point to this file on a dreamhost server, there will be a 5 second pause and you will only see the second part. Compare this with the same file on the xulplanet webserver, where you see the first part and then after a 5 second pause the second part.

If you have any ideas about what is going on, please let me know. You can find all these files (and their sources) here.

I finally upgraded wordpress (this blogging software) to version 2.0.1 and beyond. Instead of following the usual upgrade instructions, I just checked out an svn version right on top of my old wordpress directory. I had to move things around a bit, but eventually I have this blog running on a development version that I can keep up2date whenever I want to.

Now I have to figure out how to get my “I’m feeling lucky plugin” working again and update it on the wordpress plugin repository. Also, the backup plugin needs some tweaking. I shall also tweak the template to give my del.icio.us bookmarks a little more space. I seem to be bookmarking more things and easing up on writing blog posts. If you notice anything funny with the website after the upgrade, please let me know.

Click the image for a close look…. I guess Slashdot is worried about getting sued by Microsoft ….

Yahoo! mail is also getting a new Ajaxified look with drag & drop organization, keyboard shortcuts and other features. I am sure Gregarius can be themed to sport a really nice light Ajaxified interface. The key will be to piecemeal the data transferred between server and client.

Click here to see if you guessed right. This information is from 2003 (yes I know I am a little late to the game ). Read about it at Snopes. Consequently, you get the same top result if you search for miserable.