Radio Deluxe in iTunes

I moved my Radio Deluxe RSS feed to Google App Engine, so I'm no longer dependent on a scheduled job on my home computer to update the feed. And other people can use it now too. To get Radio Deluxe in iTunes or another podcast program, point it to:

http://fampollock.appspot.com/radiodeluxe.xml

In iTunes, select Advanced / Subscribe to Podcast, and then paste in the above address.

I wanted something to do to try out GAE and this seemed like a good project. Couldn't find my old source code (time to get Git running at home) so I started over. First I tried creating a JSP, and that was a nightmare. It seems like GAE doesn't like JSP documents that create XML. Switched to brute force. Used a big, nasty regular expression to pick out the episode information from the Pizzarelli web site.

Now that it works I might try converting it to Scala and see how that runs on GAE.