{"id":480,"date":"2003-08-22T22:48:34","date_gmt":"2003-08-23T02:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cephas.net\/?p=480"},"modified":"2003-08-22T22:48:34","modified_gmt":"2003-08-23T02:48:34","slug":"alternative-uses-for-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2003\/08\/22\/alternative-uses-for-rss\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Uses for RSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/images\/misc\/tracker.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\">At work we use a homemade bug tracking system I built a couple years ago during a slow month.  Although the code isn&#8217;t exactly stellar, it works pretty well and most importantly, people actually use it(!).  My biggest beef with it (and all our internal web-based applications) is that every time I want to use the application, you have to login.  It might be ok if I only used it once a day, but it&#8217;s something that I want to see immediately. Multiple times throughout the day someone will say &#8220;hey, what&#8217;s the status on issue #14044?&#8221; so after falling in love with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharpreader.net\/\">SharpReader<\/a> this week, I created an RSS feed for each project.  Now I can keep SharpReader open in the system tray, it&#8217;ll automatically refresh the data every n minutes, and I don&#8217;t have to login each time to view the bugs.  <\/p>\n<p>I mention it because I think it&#8217;s one of those examples of an application being used for something that wasn&#8217;t originally intended by their creators.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hutteman.com\/weblog\/\">Luke Hutteman<\/a>, who created SharpReader, probably never imagined that his 3 paned aggregator would be used to view tickets in a bug tracking system.  What other ways are you using RSS?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At work we use a homemade bug tracking system I built a couple years ago during a slow month. Although the code isn&#8217;t exactly stellar, it works pretty well and most importantly, people actually use it(!). My biggest beef with it (and all our internal web-based applications) is that every time I want to use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2003\/08\/22\/alternative-uses-for-rss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alternative Uses for RSS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}