RSS and Atom in Action: Web 2.0 Building Blocks

397 Pages·2006·11.986 MB·English

by  Dave Johnson

RSS and Atom in Action

RSS and Atom
in Action
WEB 2.0 BUILDING BLOCKS
DAVE JOHNSON
MANNING
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brief contents
PART 1 PROGRAMMING THE WRITABLE WEB ....................... 1
0 ■ What you need to know first 3
1 ■ New ways of collaborating 16
2 ■ Development kick-start 28
3 ■ Under the hood 40
4 ■ Newsfeed formats 56
5 ■ How to parse newsfeeds 79
6 ■ The Windows RSS Platform 109
7 ■ The ROME newsfeed utilities 140
8 ■ How to serve newsfeeds 177
9 ■ Publishing with XML-RPC based APIs 206
10 ■ Publishing with Atom 227
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viii BRIEF CONTENTS
PART 2 BLOG APPS ........................................................... 247
11 ■ Creating a group blog via aggregation 249
12 ■ Searching and monitoring the Web 261
13 ■ Keeping your blog in sync 278
14 ■ Blog by sending email 286
15 ■ Sending a daily blog digest by email 292
16 ■ Blog your software build process 299
17 ■ Blog from a chat room 309
18 ■ Distribute files podcast style 320
19 ■ Automatically download podcasts 333
20 ■ Automatically validate newsfeeds 340
21 ■ The best of the rest 347
contents
foreword xix
preface xxi
acknowledgments xxiii
about this book xxiv
PART 1 PROGRAMMING THE WRITABLE WEB.......................... 1
0 What you need to know first 3
0.1 What you need to know about Java or C# 4
0.2 What you need to know about web development 5
Web services 5 ■ Java web development 5 ■ C# web
development 5 ■ Running scheduled tasks 6
0.3 What you need to know about XML 6
Java XML tools 6 ■ C# XML tools 6
0.4 Blog technology terminology 7
0.5 The components we’ll use 8
Blog application building blocks 8
0.6 Organization of the book 10
0.7 The Blogapps examples 14
0.8 Summary 15
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