Posts Tagged ‘aggregator’

rawdog is an RSS feed aggregator… I looked at a few PHP based RSS libraries this morning and loaded a few of them up to try them out. Then found this Python based tool set which looks a little more powerful.

The project write-up says: rawdog is an RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur. Written in Python, it uses Mark Pilgrim’s feed parser to read RSS 0.9, 1.0, 2.0, CDF and Atom feeds. It runs from cron, collects articles from a number of feeds, and generates a static HTML page listing the newest articles in date order. It supports per-feed customisable update times, and uses ETags, Last-Modified, and gzip compression to minimise network bandwidth usage.

  • Michael Hartl’s Rails 3 Tutorial Book July 28, 2010
    The Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (a.k.a. railstutorial.org) by Michael Hartl has become a must read for developers learning how to build Rails apps. Michael has put together a great Rails 2.3 tutorial, releasing it all for free online chapter by chapter. Now, Michael's going three steps further: […]
  • Mailman – Like Sinatra for E-mail July 28, 2010
    Mailman is an incoming email processing microframework. You point it at a source of email, such as a POP3 account or a Maildir, and it will execute routes based on the messages that come in. […]