March 29, 2004

My Pet Project

You have no idea how ANAL parsing XML can be, especially when dealing with the multiple versions of RSS. In any case, the pet project I'm working on will allow you to access your blog syndication in your AIM profile. I'm still working on it and don't plan to release to the public until I feel it's good enough. Some feature I've implemented includes:

  1. Cache content in database for up to 1 hour (for faster access).
  2. Automatically detect different versions of RSS (currently only 1.0 & 2.0)
  3. Reformats html tags (i.e. img, li, ol, ul, blockquote, and etc)
I have not decided the name for this service. Perhaps some cheesy name like AIM Syndicator, RSS AIM, or AimGREGATOR. I anticipate that my host getting flooded in the future, so, I'm going to implement bandwidth cap as well as access logs. We'll see.

Posted by david at March 29, 2004 09:02 AM | TrackBack
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