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Facebook Style Wall / Activity log - General design help

I'm building a face-book style activity stream/wall. Using python/app engine. I have build the activity classes based on the current activity standard being used by face-book, yahoo and the likes. i have a Chanel/api system built that will create the various object messages that live on the wall/activity stream. Where i can use some he...

When creating a dynamic rss feed do I need to include a full history?

When I create entries for my RSS feed should I include a full history or just partial? How many should I go back? Do rss readers remember entries in the past (before cutoff) if I make it a partial feed? Thank, Kevin ...

Good tutorials on how to build an RSS and ATOM feeds using PHP & MySQL.

I was wondering if there is a good tutorial or tutorials on how to build good RSS 2.0 and ATOM feeds? ...

How can I write an rss feed from prewritten content and drip it daily.

1.i have a mass of content. 2.I want to drip that content piece by piece via a feed. 3.it needs to be updated daily and at a specific time (8 am) heres some sample code im working on: <channel> <title>my title</title> <skipHours> <hour>0</hour> <hour>1</hour> <hour>2</hour> <hour>3</hour> <hour>4</hour> <hour>5...

Add custom feed to Wordpress: add_feed or do_feed

I have an existing custom feed using do_feed_* but I see there is an undocumented (and existing since 2.1) *_add_feed. Is one better than the other? I have do_feed_* working but since I upgraded to 3.0 last week, any URL with "&author=" in it redirects to the root site page. Take it out and it loads the page fine (but of course does n...

Why this feed doesn't validate

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FVideoRicette it tells me that there's an invalid character but I can't find it ...

rss in windows forms

Hi guys, I'm developing an application in windows forms with C#, and I'1d like to know How could I use Rss Toolkit in Windows Forms Application ? I've referenced in my solution but it doesn't work very fine, an error apper when I compile the app. Is there any easy way to read Rss (Feeds) in Windows Forms ? If someone can help me.. I a...

How to aggregate different RSS Feed in a single Feed

Hi, i have a website (based on liferay) that produces more than 300 Feeds (one for each community). I need to expose a single Feed, but i need that feed to come from my server (that means that if my site is www.mysyte.com, the feed Must be www.mysyte.com/rss.xml). How can i do that? ...

MySQL structure for following multiple content types

I'm building a web app that will (ideally) allow users to follow discussion threads (which are in Q&A format like this site), but also follow other content types, such as firms and schools that have profile pages. (The site is intended to help with professional job-seeking, so the back-end provides a bare-bones profile page for firms, s...

Cycle through remote javascripts to create multiple weather feeder

Hi guys, I'm using a weather feed to show weather on a page. I want to cycle through 2 or more weather locations at, say, 5 second intervals. I thought I could adapt something like this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84163/how-can-i-cycle-through-pages but haven't had any luck. The source code is as follows for 3 feeds that I woul...

Does RSS contains historical feeds or just the latest feeds?

Does RSS contains historical feeds or just the latest feeds? Google Reader was able to retrieve old feeds just by adding the RSS link. ...

Using Regex in Yahoo pipes to "clean" RSS feeds...

Hi, everyone. Need some help in creating a Yahoo Pipe that strips certain elements from an rss feed. To clerify: I would use the regex code on Yahoo Pipes. I presume the regex syntax is universal? I've broken the question up to some sub-questions: What would be the regex for removing/striping a specific html tag (has its own class)?...

Contacts / address book data feed import for MS Exchange

Hi I've got an intranet (PHP / Zend Framework) application that holds people's contact information (name, address, phone, email, skype etc) I'm looking for a way to (securely!) create a data feed that MS Exchange (preferably) or MS Outlook (second choice) can consume that will ensure our worldwide user base always has up to date contac...

Drupal views 2 Feed display adds surrounding html to items

I have a view that has a Default display and a Feed display. When I go to the url of the page, it displays the info ok, but I have a JwPlayer flash file that's trying to read that xml. The problem is Drupal is surrounding each element with a bunch of divs and classes that I don't want. I just want to have the path to some audio files and...

How can I retrieve all posts from a Blogger (blogspot.com) blog?

I have a blog at http://westernwakefarmersmarket.blogspot.com/ and I'd like to migrate the content to a new MVC web application I'm developing. I'm trying to retrieve all of the existing posts to migrate them into a database. I'm having trouble getting all of the posts, however. When I connect to the blog with Windows Live Writer, it's ...

Feeds and podcasts for the vim text editor?

Vimcasts is fantastic, and I want more educational, vim-related feeds and podcasts but am having trouble finding any more quality ones. There must be more out there! Please list your favorite vim-related XML feeds and podcasts. ...

Django 1.1.1's Feed only displays the latest item, while there are many

I've created a Feed subclass to export a simple feed of news #urls.py from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from litenewz.feeds import NewsFeed feeds = { 'news': NewsFeed, } urlpatterns = patterns( '', (r'^feeds/(?P<url>.*)/$', 'django.contrib.syndication.views.feed', {'feed_dict': feeds}), ) #feeds.py from d...

Are RSS and Atom sufficient for publication and syndication, or should I investigate a third option?

For web feeds we all know of RSS and Atom, but is that it? Isn't there a third option? If not, why? Are RSS and Atom more than qualified to meet today's demand to distribute information? ...

Optimal MySQL design for user-specific activity feeds

I'm building a website that constructs both site-wide and user-specific activity feeds. I hope that you can see the structure below and share you insight as to whether my solution is doing the job. This is complicated by the fact that I have multiple types of users that right now are not stored in one master table. This is because the...

Reusing a Django RSS Feed for different Date Ranges

What would be a way to have date range based rss feeds in Django. For instance if I had the following type of django rss feed model. from django.contrib.syndication.feeds import Feed from myapp.models import * class PopularFeed(Feed): title = '%s : Latest SOLs' % settings.SITE_NAME link = '/' description = 'Latest entries t...