Category Archives: Syndication

instantFeeds 1.0.1

Posted on March 27, 2007 by ajohnson

I updated the instantFeeds plugin tonight to fix a couple bugs with the postgres and hsqldb installation scripts that the guys on the Ignite Realtime site found. You can download 1.0.1 (again, assuming you have already!) and get the latest … Continue reading →

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instantFeeds: real time notification of RSS updates via Openfire

Posted on March 21, 2007 by ajohnson

I wrote a long winded post a couple months ago with a nebulous title called “IM and RSS: Rome is on Fire” where I talked about the feed bot that I wrote for Wildfire (which is now called Openfire). It’s … Continue reading →

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Using Outlook 2007 as a RSS aggregator: Not so much

Posted on February 5, 2007 by ajohnson

I installed the 60 day preview of Office 2007 a couple days ago to try out some of the blogging / RSS features it included. Publishing from Word 2007 to a blog via the MetaWeblog API? Works pretty well (but … Continue reading →

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IM and RSS: Rome is on Fire

Posted on January 28, 2007 by ajohnson

Last August, Marshall Kirkpatrick (another Portland resident) posted an entry to TechCrunch about a company called FeedCrier which: … makes it easy to receive rapid notification of new items in an RSS feed by IM I bookmarked the link on … Continue reading →

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Blogs: Not just for breakfast anymore, part II

Posted on January 15, 2007 by ajohnson

A couple weeks ago I added a short post to the Jive Software corporate blog entitled ‘Blogs: Not just for breakfast anymore‘, In the post, I hoped to squash the notion that blogs are all about opinions and are useless … Continue reading →

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ROME and wfw namespace elements

Posted on January 11, 2007 by ajohnson

I created a ROME parser and generator for wfw:comment and wfw:commentRss elements today. You can read all about it here and download the source code here. Not sure what the wfw:comment or wfw:commentRss elements are for? Imagine you’re reading my … Continue reading →

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ROME and custom Generator elements

Posted on January 10, 2007 by ajohnson

The majority of the articles I’ve seen on using ROME to create Atom and RSS feeds don’t show you how to customize the optional ‘generator’ element that both Atom and RSS support. It’s really easy. I’m assuming that you’ve already … Continue reading →

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RSS/Atom feeds, Last Modified and Etags

Posted on December 4, 2006 by ajohnson

Sometime last week I read this piece by Sam Ruby, which summarized says this: …don’t send Etag and Last-Modified headers unless you really mean it. But if you can support it, please do. It will save you some bandwidth and … Continue reading →

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Using Lucene and MoreLikeThis to show Related Content

Posted on November 14, 2006 by ajohnson

If you read this blog, you probably paid a smidgen of attention to the Web 2.0 Conference held last week in San Francisco. Sphere was one of the companies that presented and they launched a product called the “Sphere It … Continue reading →

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ROME, custom modules, publishdate and RSS

Posted on November 8, 2006 by ajohnson

At work, I’ve taken on the work of migrating our RSS feeds currently being produced using JSP to ROME. Since we’ve added a few custom elements to the feeds available in Jive Forums (things like message and thread counts), I’m … Continue reading →

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