Monday, February 12, 2007
ArcExperts RSS Feed... It's Alive!
Posted on Monday, February 12, 2007 8:23:01 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)  Comments [0] | 
Categories: .NET | ASP.NET | Blogging | ESRI
The ArcExperts.net feed is up and running. It caches for 15 minutes, pulls it's own copy of the feeds, and is running through Feed Burner.

You can subscibe using this url: http://feeds.feedburner.com/arcexperts or directly at ArcExperts.net

Neither the site, nor the RSS feed are particularly optimized beyone caching. Specifically, they do not utilize Entity Tags or SkipHours in the source RSS feeds (read more here). Both of these allow the consumer of a feed to be more intelligent about when it pulls feed data - thus saving everyone bandwidth and improving performance. Also, the underlying JRN blog roller code does not specify how far back the posts should be pulled - it just says how many posts should be pulled.  So, for blogs where there are sparse postings - say one in May, one in June, 2 in September and one in November - the current code would fetch all of them because it's just pulling the last 5 posts in the feed (this assumes the person's rss feed is not date sensitive - many are).

If we actually get a reasonable number of subscribers / users of the site, then I'll look at re-tooling it - either with Dimitry Robsman's ASP.NET RSS Toolkit, or just try to re-work the JRN blog roller code to be a little smarter.

Anyhow - it's up and running, and we'll see how it goes. Contact me if you've got questions / ideas / want a blog added or dropped etc.
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