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• Coding an All-in-one RSS Feed

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Mon 20 Oct 2008 at 11:50

  Type

  Blog Entry

  One of the cool new things that we have added at Lowter recently is an all-in-one RSS feed that contains both our articles and our blog entries. Granted, the feed doesn't contain "all" of Lowter's content, such as new forum threads and blog comments, but it is very encompassing nonetheless. Coding such an all-in-one RSS feed is pretty easy! First, I'm going to assume that you want to make a combined feed of both your articles and blog entries. You can easily change the code to fit whatever combining scenario you have, such as different so…

• Enhancing Opera 9.6's RSS Feed Display

  Author

  Matt Oakes

  Date

  Thu 9 Oct 2008 at 22:19

  Type

  Blog Entry

  Comments

  3 comments

  This blog post was originally going to be about the new features of Opera 9.6 and how much I like them. However, I spotted a major flaw with one of the new features and luckily it's a flaw that anyone can fix with a little bit of modification. One of the great new features of Opera 9.6 is that it will show a styled page when it comes across an RSS or Atom feed, which makes it readable to humans. It then has a big button that you press to subscribe to the feed. It's a great little feature... assuming you use the built-in feed reader. The …

• Migrate Your RSS Feed to Feedburner

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Wed 17 Sep 2008 at 17:11

  Type

  Blog Entry

  Many of you have probably heard of Feedburner, an online feed manager that tracks your feed statistics and provides other feed-related services (such as advertising in your feeds). Google recently purchased them as well, so if you are an AdSense user you may benefit from the AdSense-Feedburner integration that Google is currently working on. Lowter finally made the switch to Feedburner to manage our feeds, primarily to gather statistics on how many subscribers we have. Feedburner is certainly a very handy tool and it is easy to start using! …

• Improving Your Online Productivity: Google Reader [1]

  Author

  Matt Oakes

  Date

  Wed 7 May 2008 at 5:25

  Type

  Blog Entry

  Comments

  3 comments

  In this series of blog posts, I'll be showing you useful little titbits that can really help you to improve how you use your time online. They will range from simple little tips to online applications that will all improve your productivity. For the first part in this series, I'm going to show you one of my favourite online applications: Google Reader. One Internet technology that is beginning to take hold is RSS (Really Simple Syndication). It is simply a file (or feed) that gives updates about new content on a website. To view these RSS…

• RSS: <author> vs: <dc:creator>

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sat 9 Feb 2008 at 16:43

  Type

  Blog Entry

  Comments

  3 comments

  RSS is an utter mess of standards and a spaghetti of versioning. Quite often I wonder why I myself do not switch to using Atom feeds. Even with the multiple versions of RSS, it still has managed to have remaining errors and issues which it needs to iron out. One of these kinks is the <author> tag. At first glance, it would make perfect semantic sense for the <author> tag to contain the name or the information of the author of a particular content piece. This is true to an extent; however, the <author> tag is geared more…

• No Nonsense XML

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sat 13 Aug 2005 at 7:58

  Type

  Blog Entry

  No Nonsense XML Web Development With PHP arrived at my doorstep late last week. This good sized book marks my first PHP book and an exciting new adventure for me. XML Web Development has always interested me, but finding quality resources for that area of programming can be difficult. I've read through the first few chapters, and I'm hoping to finish the book this week. There is a ton of useful information within the first few chapters, but it looks like the PHP/XML work comes later in the book. In the past XML work was quite confusing…

• IE7 to Support RSS

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Fri 24 Jun 2005 at 16:46

  Type

  Blog Entry

  Just today Microsoft announced that they would be including extended support for RSS in Windows Longhorn, the next version of Windows due next year. Not only will Microsoft be adding an RSS reader to Internet Explorer, but they'll make it easier for software developers to easily integrate RSS into their applications. Currently all major web browsers contain a method for reading RSS. Opera and Firefox have both had RSS support for as long as most of us can remember. Safari recently received a stylish RSS reader in the latest version, inclu…

• The Future of the Universal Data Storage - XML

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sun 30 Jan 2005 at 6:39

  Type

  Article

  XML is the universal date storage method. Here Ethan gives predictions on the future of XML and where its path leads. Will XML eventually become the ultimate programming skill?

• Ezine Delivery Methods and Tactics

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sun 30 Jan 2005 at 6:39

  Type

  Article

  Publish an ezine? You will always need to know the best delivery methods for your ezine. Learn about using syndication and email newsletters to expand your ezine and your profit.

• XML Attributes

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sun 30 Jan 2005 at 6:39

  Type

  Article

  Learn how to use attributes to describe more information about a particular element in XML.

• XML Syntax

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sun 30 Jan 2005 at 6:39

  Type

  Article

  What is XML? What does XML do? XML is an extremely useful way to describe data and it makes your data extremely portable. Learn the basics of XML and its syntax.

• Basic RSS Feeds

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sun 30 Jan 2005 at 6:39

  Type

  Article

  Still not using RSS? Jump onto the RSS bandwagon and allow your visitors to subscribe to your syndicated feeds. In this tutorial, learn the basics for creating your own RSS feeds.

• RSS Feeds and PHP

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sun 30 Jan 2005 at 6:39

  Type

  Article

  Know the basics of RSS and want to put it to use on your website? Learn how to use PHP to create database driven RSS feeds that are maintenance free!