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Keithba feed now on time delay

Now that my Keithba synthesized feed is getting 40 hits an hour, I decided to convert my cgi to a cron job.

What does this mean to you? On the plus side, responses will be quicker. Futhermore, if you aggregator supports ETag headers or HEAD methods, then less bytes will be downloaded. On the minus side, since the data is cached, the results may be up to 15 minutes time delayed.

Of course, you can always get the latest Keithba here.

And now if you could get Joe on Software in an RSSFeed life would be splendid!

Posted by Andy at

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/rss.xml

Posted by Sam Ruby at

Joel's feed is listed on Syndic8

http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=1681

But it's not referenced anywhere from his site. Perhaps someone could teach Joel about RSS auto-discovery?

(Granted, my rssfinder.py finds it on the first try, because it polls Syndic8. But most people are using, er, inferior tools. :-)

Posted by Mark at

Remember this comment from a while back http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2003/1/25/203918/525/3#3 ?

Now you know why. :)

Posted by anonymous at

Anonymous: I remember the comment. Both servers certainly can stand the load of 40 hits an hour. I have just been scouring my logs debugging my caching logic, and this was simply a bit of cleanup.

FYI: before this rewrite, every response to every request for any page off of this site (including my various RSS feeds) was dynamically generated.

Posted by Sam Ruby at

Weird, I could swear I entered my user info in my above comment.

Oh, I see what happened. Sam you have a bug. When I hit [Preview] my name, email and url are lost.

Posted by Dare Obasanjo at

Dare: I've entered this comment using preview (twice) on IE on WinXP. My name and URL seems retained. Can you tell me exactly what steps you performed, and the state of the Remember info checkbox below?

Posted by Sam Ruby at

I click on comments.

I fill in my info and Remember Info is unchecked. Hit Preview.

All my info is gone. Click Remember Info and hit Preview.

My info is remembered. This seems different from how I remember it working in the past.

Posted by Dare Obasanjo at

Dare - you are correct. What you described was a change in behavior - a behavior that I had explicitly had code in place to support previously.

I've now restored the desired behavior. Thanks for the bug report.

Posted by Sam Ruby at

Ah, the irony. A well respected developer who specialises in XML uses blogger.com for his blog and so doesn't have an RSS feed. So a friend scrapes the html to produce a feed which then gets lots of hits and needs cacheing.

This is fixing the leaky roof by buying more buckets isn't it?

Seriously though folks, we ought to be pushing Blogger to produce native RSS for all it's blogs now they have Google behind them.

As a complete aside, are there any native Dotnet equivalents of things like Movable Type?

Posted by Julian Bond at

I don't know if there are any equivalents to MovableType in any language, but there is weblogging software out there written in/for ASP.NET. and/or Exchange and/or SQLServer.

There are even weblogs out there powered by XSLT.

Posted by Sam Ruby at

You can take a look at Chris Anderson's BlogX

Posted by Dare Obasanjo at

I had a weblog powered by pencil and paper once, but the bandwidth bills at Kinkos and the post office were killing me. Now I lovingly hand-code my weblog in HTML, which is fine most days, but the angle brackets are sharp and pointy, and make it difficult to have bowel movements.

Of course, I could be mis-remembering this.

Posted by Mark at

Thanks sam. I am now fulfilled.

Posted by Andy at

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