The Highways Agency has been publishing traffic information as RSS feeds for a while now, but they contain too much noise to be useful for me. My daily commute is just 28 miles to work and back, I certainly don't cover the entire East of England so a lot of the alerts are of no interest to me.

With Yahoo Pipes, I can filter out the noise to leave just the incidents that I might be interested in. To start with, here's a simple pipe to cut down the alerts to just those with "A14" in the title: A14 traffic news.  ...read more »

We use Subversion for version control at work. I wanted to get some RSS/Atom feeds of the commits people were making to various repositories, but for some reason, our WebSVN installation (which would have given me the feeds I wanted) was broken. So I decided to quickly hack something together to produce a feed from the svn log output.

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