I've not quite done LAMP, or have I?

It hit me just now that while I've played with all the individual bits of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python), I've never actually done LAMP per se. I tend to play with Plone/Zope professionally, and in my goof off time I prefer to delve into wxPython, with my Django work being all too rare. I'm wondering if it might be worth it to do some formal LAMP work, and there might be available work at NASA for it real soon.

On the other hand, according to the Wikipedia entry on LAMP the 'M' in LAMP can mean 'middle-ware'. In which case I am professionally doing LAMP every work day.

wxPython is fun!

I needed to generate lots of lipsum recently. I could use elephantangelchild's greaterLipsum but I like fancy GUIs. So I branched greaterLipsum and wrapped it inside a little wxPython app. Pretty easy to do and it works great. You can svn the results at the desktopGreaterLipsum branch.

I plan to add in new features like being able to choose the text source, making binaries for different operating systems, and other fun things.

In the meantime, it made me remember just how much fun wxPython is in general. I need to find excuses to work with it more.

What I want in a feed aggregator

The list is simple:

1. One page that displays all the content. Maybe do some pagination, or hide descriptions and just show titles. Otherwise have tags, author, description, and link to original post.
   
2. One page with a text area that accepts one feed per line.
3. Include some sort of authentication.

Ways to get this done
Google App Engine handles #3 for me nicely and gives me free hosting. But feedparser doesn't play well with it and I'm not about to do that kind of debugging. Maybe I ought to try BeautifulSoup?

I'm tempted to try a pure Django system, since that could handle all three, but then I would have to pay for hosting. The same would go for Grok as well. I don't want to pay for hosting yet. Or maybe I ought to just pony up a few bucks a month anyhow...

Of course, I can always write my own simple wxPython client.

What to do... what to do...

Update: Never code on two hours sleep. I'm going with Google app Engine because I realized that when you import of feedparser you can't do this:

import feedparser.py

Suggest to me a feed aggregator!

I need a good RSS/Atom aggregator. I'm not having any luck. And this is giving me issues because I can't remember everyone's blogs I like to peruse. Any suggestions?

Tried Google Reader and hated it. Updates happened haphazardly and the interface was confusing. The one google product I can't stand.

Tried Rojo and it would be great but I can't seem to easily add my own @#$% RSS feeds. No dice - instead I have to search for everything. WTF?

Or should I perhaps write my own in Django? Or a local version in wxPython? I've worked with FeedParser a number of times and it is an easy API. So is Beautiful Soup for that matter.