Andrew Trusty's dashboard

A comment on the idea "User-defined source publications" in Pubfeed:

Wow, thats an interesting service. It shouldn't be too hard to import the results after they are calculated. I don't think I could automate the searching though since the results take so long to return.

I was thinking of adding Pubmed as an additional search option too. Between eTBLAST and Pubmed, which do you think would be more useful? – Andrew Trusty, on June 26, 2009 01:10

Andrew Trusty replied on June 25, 2009 04:16 to the idea "Study date listings" in Pubfeed:

I've added the publication year but for now it will only appear for new papers.

Andrew Trusty replied on June 24, 2009 00:53 to the problem ""Populating feed" takes ages" in Pubfeed:

From the database it looks like it took exactly 1 minute for the first few related papers to be fetched and an hour for all of them to be fetched (because there were so many source papers and since the Google Scholar blocking I've had to slow down the speed of Google Scholar queries).

The web interface should have stopped saying "Populating..." sometime in the first few minutes though.

Andrew Trusty replied on June 21, 2009 00:27 to the idea "Study date listings" in Pubfeed:

I've added a display of the date each feed item is added to feeds. I hope that's what you meant, I currently don't have information on the dates the publications were published.

A comment on the idea "User-defined source publications" in Pubfeed:

I'll make some time to work on this next week. – Andrew Trusty, on June 19, 2009 17:36

Andrew Trusty replied on June 19, 2009 15:04 to the question "Linking from welcome page" in Pubfeed:

You're right, it should but it seems that GetSatisfaction doesn't let me place the link very prominently. I just put a link in the Important message notification above and on the about page

I think I'd have more control over the content here if I paid for one of the upgraded plans but I guess that's just the hidden cost of it being free.

Andrew Trusty replied on June 19, 2009 14:33 to the problem "RSS" in Pubfeed:

Hmm, so some of the papers Pubfeed picks up don't have links because Google Scholar provides publications results that aren't linked sometimes (see first 2 results at http://bit.ly/RFTzt ). The default feed link thus pointed back to Pubfeed in these cases but you're right that that doesn't make sense so I've changed the link to point to the Google Scholar search result page instead.

Andrew Trusty replied on June 19, 2009 13:52 to the idea "OpenID support." in Pubfeed:

But I didn't change anything... count me confused... :(

Andrew Trusty replied on June 19, 2009 13:48 to the problem "RSS" in Pubfeed:

Good catch. Should be fixed now but I don't think Friendfeed will reflect the fix until new feed entries appear.

Andrew Trusty replied on June 05, 2009 10:24 to the problem "Starts via Google Scholar _very_ slow" in Pubfeed:

Oh, I'm getting the error now too. It appears Google Scholar has blacklisted the Pubfeed server IP because of the automated searches. This may take some time to figure out...

Andrew Trusty replied on June 05, 2009 09:03 to the problem "Starts via Google Scholar _very_ slow" in Pubfeed:

How many favorites are you selecting for a single feed? The more you select, the longer the feed will take to populate.

And can you give me an example list of which papers you are using as favorites and failing with? I haven't seen this effect with the last two feeds created on the site, which used Google Scholar.

Andrew Trusty replied on June 04, 2009 21:58 to the idea "User-defined source publications" in Pubfeed:

Currently, I don't plan to support user inputted papers because if the search doesn't find a paper then the feed will be empty.

That said, I have set Google Scholar as the default search source. Previously, it was DBLP which is a Computer Science specific database. So you should get better search results for feeds you create now.

Andrew Trusty replied on June 04, 2009 16:15 to the idea "User-defined number of items related to source publications" in Pubfeed:

Done.

Andrew Trusty replied on June 04, 2009 03:27 to the problem ""Populating feed" takes ages" in Pubfeed:

I don't know why it didn't populate correctly. I manually re-ran the population on the brain morphometry feed which took about 5 seconds but I'll have to look into the auto-population code to see if I can figure out what went wrong. Thanks for reporting this though.

Andrew Trusty replied on June 04, 2009 03:17 to the problem ""Populating feed" takes ages" in Pubfeed:

So it still says "Populating feed..." in your browser? When I view it looks like it has completed and has no entries.

Andrew Trusty replied on June 04, 2009 03:14 to the problem "RSS" in Pubfeed:

Okay it should work now. Your feed had a large number of entries which made it too slow to load on FriendFeed so I changed feeds to only show the last 40 entries.

Andrew Trusty replied on June 04, 2009 02:28 to the problem "RSS" in Pubfeed:

I had no problem integrating one of the feeds via the Custom RSS/Atom option under the Miscellaneous services. Which feed caused the problem for you?

Andrew Trusty replied on May 22, 2009 06:12 to the problem "Formatting is off in Firefox" in Pubfeed:

Should be fixed now although I only tested it in Chrome.

Andrew Trusty replied on May 07, 2009 17:17 to the problem "Formatting is off in Firefox" in Pubfeed:

A couple people have run into this but I can't duplicate it in Firefox on Windows or Linux. What version of Firefox are you using?

Andrew Trusty replied on May 07, 2009 17:16 to the idea "RSS Integration" in Pubfeed:

Marking idea as implemented.