RSS and Syndication
Here's a feature that caught me by surprise (maybe I haven't been keeping my ear close enough to the ground): the new Firefox 1.0 preview release supports Live Bookmarks, a novel twist on RSS aggregat...
According to the HTTP specification, RSS/Atom aggregators should obey the HTTP 301 Moved Permanently header by altering the stored subscription URL for the feed they are attempting to retrieve.
Thi...
I'm not a fan of the orange XML icon, even though I use it on my categories page. I love the concept of a universally recognised icon for RSS feeds, but XML is simply the wrong acronym to put on it. D...
Today is/was (you never can tell with these wretched time zone differences) NotCon 2004, London's premiere low-cost, informal, one-day technology conference. Friday's MiniNTK promised the unveiling of...
The minutes from the Atom/W3C discussion in New York have been posted online. Unfortunately the default formatting is pretty difficult to follow. I found it a lot easier to figure out who was saying w...
Understanding Network I/O, Part 2 by George Belotsky (via The Farm) is the best tutorial on the subject of network programming I've seen yet. It provides a detailed explanation of simple threaded netw...
Jeremy Zawodny:
Since everyone's jumping up and down about the Atom vs. RSS (or "Google vs. RSS" if that's your paranoia) debate, it's probably worth pointing out that My Yahoo's RSS module also gr...
The thing I love about RSS, and by extension web services, is that they allow people to take publically available data and combine it in ways never thought of by the originator of the feed. The intern...
Mark Pilgrim has released the Atom autodiscovery test suite, comprising 148 tests:
When we say that Atom is going to have better specs, validators, and conformance tests than anything you've ever s...
Wow, that's what I call feedback! It's a shame pretty much everyone hates the new design but I like it so it stays. I've taken a few tips though and tweaked the link colours a bit, as well as making a...
Today's hot topic is the Winer Watcher, Mark Pilgrim's new tool that tracks and highlights edits made to Dave Winer's Scripting News. The blogosphere is pretty much evenly split on this: some people t...
Tristan Louis' RSS to Necho convertor puts paid to the idea that the success of one format will be detrimental to the usefulness of the other.
O'Reilly's RegExp Power series (part one and part tw...
Adam Curry is a dangerous man: He's throwing $10,000 at a problem he clearly doesn't understand. Quote from June 29th:
I wonder if netscape came up with the Really Simple Syndication when they hi...
Dave Winer:
For several months this Google search
would turn up a UserLand page as the number one hit. Today it's not in
the first ten pages. Must be a bug. Or do they play games with their
se...
Sam Ruby has called for people to start experimenting with the current (very early) Echo example feeds, and the response has been pretty impressive; check out these feeds from Joel Spolsky, Phil Ringn...
Adrian Holovaty has the scoop on the BBC's new RSS feeds, one for every news index page of their site. Adrian has also written a bookmarklet to find the feed for any section of the BBC site....
My friend Tristan has got his blosxom powered blog up and running again. He's also set up an experimental public aggregator of feeds from a small group of friends from Uni, using blosxom's companion a...
Tim Bray explains RSS to an imaginary bank manager:
Mr Safe: Well, I've learned that sometimes we have to take little
risks on these Internet standards, and they pay off.
RSS is an Internet Sta...
Mark Pilgrim highlights the severe security issues introduced by RSS aggregators that display potentially unsafe HTML, often executing it in the "secure zone" generally reserved for trusted local docu...
This site's RSS feeds now support Conditional GET. Since the feeds are dynamically generated on every request, adding support took a bit of hacking around with PHP. Here's the function I came up with ...