Sunday, October 30th, 2005
Since track2rss has not been updated in a while I decided to give it some new features. Changes included:
o Support for Gzip encoding of RSS output
o Support for A9's OpenSearch technology
o Auto-guessing support (if you don't provide a carrier type, it will try to guess it based on tracking number, ...
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
BlogLines, a very popular web-based RSS aggregator is adding support for package tracking according to this story. Who knows, maybe they were inspired by my XML.com article or the track2rss project.
P.S. I do wonder how they got around the legal issues, most carriers severely restrict the use of their package ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
O'Reilly's XML.com just published my article describing the track2rss project.
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
Following up on earlier posts about USPS via RSS and UPS via RSS, I added support for Fedex tracking. This code has been added to track2rss. To test click here for Fedex Ground and click here for Fedex Air.
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Monday, January 24th, 2005
Following on the heels of an earlier post about UPS tracking via RSS, I now added support for tracking packages sent via the United States Postal Service (USPS). This code has been added to track2rss. To test click here.
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
Following up on an earlier post about UPS tracking via JavaScript, I cooked up an alternative server-side RSS tracker via XSLT similar to this one. I used two XSLT templates to create the XML request for UPS and format the response into RSS. I also made a Perl wrapper that ...
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Monday, January 3rd, 2005
A recent post at TechDigits about tracking UPS packages via RSS and web services got me thinking if the same is possible via Javascript and the XmlHttpRequest object (in IE and Mozilla). Since Google's Gmail and Google Suggest started using that object, it has become more popular. So after some ...
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