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Windows RSS chapter complete


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]
Comments:

Nice! Though the irony of a Java advocate and Sun employee, hacking on IE... feeds are beyond platforms, then.

Posted by Migs on March 26, 2006 at 11:40 PM EST #

Dang, I was all set to pick up a copy and then you bent to the Darkside! Kidding aside, even though you just dumped a couple weeks effort into IE7 and MS's "extensions", how relevant do you think they'll "really" be in real-world apps? Heck, IE is back under attack today, how long will the corporate world put up with it?

Posted by WillR on March 27, 2006 at 08:06 PM EST #

I think they'll definitely be relevant in real-world Windows apps, since the feed subscription list, parser and download store will be built into Windows Vista itself and not just IE. It will suddenly become very easy for Windows developers build feed-enabled apps and I think a lot of them will.

But then again, by the time Vista ships, Hillary will be president, Web 2.0 will be obsolete and Microsoft will be the "Windows Division" of Google, so who the heck knows...

Posted by Dave Johnson on March 28, 2006 at 01:26 AM EST #

I've prepared my XP box for a Roller installation, by setting up Java, Tomcat, and MySQL. Now all I need is the Roller zip. It's referenced in the roller docs, but I can't find it anywhere. Just a bunch of tars. . . Anyone know where I can track it down? Thanks!

Posted by Matthew on June 15, 2006 at 04:19 PM EDT #

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