He’s a coding fool..

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

OK, good night’s sleep last night, mood much better, let’s get to blogging! 🙂

The coding fool I’m talking about, by the way is Josh, aka nf0. In the last few days he’s written a couple of really useful scripts, eBayTools, which lets you “take a list of items, search ebay, and create an RSS feed with the results”, and MtForums which “will grab the latest topics from the Movable Type forums and convert them to RSS for consumption in your favorite aggregator.”

Both look really useful, I may have to add them to my ever-growing to do list!

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