PONDcast upgraded to OpenRokn v0.3

The PONDcast channel is now running on OpenRokn v0.3. There were a few minor changes made to the channel in the new version. A few podcasts were moved from the "Fresh" category to the "Stale" category and the music/film/books row was removed. I discovered that a couple of the blogs weren't loading properly and updated the document templates to work with those rss feeds.

In OpenRokn v0.3 the document screens were changed to scroll vertically as a single page instead of displaying one page of text at a time. I think this format works much better with blog and news articles and there are no longer any problems with text overflowing the available screen height and appearing behind an on-screen button.

My original goal for this channel was to create a row for each professional hockey league. Each row would contain a logo for each team in the league and then when selected would display a game schedule, live radio stream, news and podcasts for the selected team. Unfortunately I just don't have the time to create all of the images for each league or to track down podcast feeds and radio streams.

I'm sure that there's probably more interest in minor league and college hockey this year due to the current NHL lockout. If anyone would like to create the team images and put together an ORML feed for a different hockey league then I would be more than happy to add the content to the channel. Just reply to the PONDcast thread in the forum if you're interested.

All of the NHL team images were created using imagemagick. The command below will convert a string of text to a 132x132 gif image. Just replace the stroke and fill colors to match the team colors and then change the label and filename for each team.

convert -background "#FFFFFF" -stroke "#236193" -fill "#6B253B" \
        -font Candice-Regular -strokewidth 2 -size x132 -gravity center \
        label:"Colorado\nAvalanche" avalanche.gif && convert avalanche.gif \
        -resize 132x132\! avalanche.gif

Download imagemagick

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