Thank God for Google Reader and subsequently RSS for that matter. Sure, like probably most other’s my feed list is becoming a behemoth mess growing limbs and swiftly on its way to consuming the world with black hole’esk gravitational mass, but who cares? It’s my digital coffee in the morning and the red bull that fuels my late night spidering towards becoming a better designer [...]
Just wanted to post an update regarding AdRavage as it has been a while since the last significant changes to the site aesthetically and/or functionally. The UI has been completely redesigned with hopes of making things easier to find, use, and just overall more intuitive. The last design was based on a template and figured it was about time I put together my own design [...]
I recently discovered that Craigslist’s rss feeds leave much to be desired in terms of well formed xml. A large portion of the AdRavage back-end magic works by parsing the rss results of searches, and the bulk of this is achieved through Magpie RSS. Unfortunately, when returned feeds contain invalid encoding or have structural issues they become virtually impossible to parse – at least by [...]
AdRavage.com is released!
As some of you already know, I’ve been working on a site that lets you automate searching on websites such as Craigslist. I recently needed to purchase a vehicle and was repeatedly beaten to the punch by others who were able to monitor the ads much closer than I. AdRavage lets you create search terms, how often to search those terms, and ultimately [...]