Blogging Roller

My blog's been silent since Wednesday because I've been devoting every evening hour and all weekend to finishing the new chapter 6 on the Windows RSS platform for RSS and Atom in Action. I finished about 20 minutes ago and I'm ready to hand the chapter off to the editors. I think it's the longest chapter in the book (but I won't know until it is typeset). Here's the outline as it stands today:

• Windows RSS platform overview
• Browse, search and subscribe with IE7
• Windows RSS platform components
• The Feeds API
• The Common Feed List
• The Feed Store
  
• The Download Manager
• Microsoft's newsfeed list and sharing extensions
  
• Managing subscriptions with the Common Feed List
• Manging subscriptions
• Keeping track of what's been read
  
• Getting started with the Common Feed List
• Adding the Feeds API to your project
• Walking the feed folder hierarchy
  
• Ceating subscriptions
• Newsfeed update interval
• Download enclosures or not?
  
• Monitoring events
  
• Parsing newsfeeds with the Feeds API
• Simple newsfeed parsing example
• Parsing extension elements and funky RSS
• The Common Feed Format
• Parsing item summaries with the Feeds API
  
• Windows RSS platform newsfeed extensions
• The Common Feed (CF) extensions
• The Simple List Extensions (SLX)
• The Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE)
• Summary

I'm finished with the 1st draft, but I've still got some unanswered questions about the Windows RSS platform. I wrote to Robert Scoble and he hooked me up with Sean Lyndersay and Walter VonKoch of the Microsoft RSS team. I sent them a list of about 10 questions yesterday. If I can, I'll post the Q&A here.

Next up is the new chapter 7 on parsing feeds with ROME.

Tags: topic:[ie7], topic:[rss], topic:[atom], topic:[vista], topic:[rome]