Product DescriptionRSS and Atom are specifications that give users the power to subscribe to information they want to receive and give content developers tools to provide continuous subscriptions to willing recipients in a spam-free setting. RSS and Atom are the technical power behind the growing millions of blogs on the Web. Blogs change the Web from a set of static pages or sites requiring programming expertise to update to an ever changing, constantly updated landscape that anyone can contribute to. RSS and Atom syndication provides users an easy way to track new information on as many Web sites as they want. This book offers you insight to understanding the issues facing the user community so you can meet users' needs by writing software and Web sites using RSS and Atom feeds.
Beginning with an introduction to all the current and coming versions of RSS and Atom, you'll go step by step through the process of producing, aggregating, and storing information feeds. When you're finished, you'll be able to produce client software and Web sites that create, manipulate, aggregate, and display information feeds effectively.
'This book is full of practical advice and tips for consuming, producing, and manipulating information feeds. I only wish I had a book like this when I started writing RSS Bandit.' - Dare Obasanjo, RSS Bandit creator: http://www.rssbandit.org/
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Choose "Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom" instead
Far too heavy on "tools" rather than "concepts". In a year, the tools all change, but the concepts remain the same. For the same price, choose Ben Hammersley's O'Reilly book. It will be 250 focused pages that will give your the perfect lay of the syndication landscape. This Wrox book rambles on for 720 pages!
Rating: - Nice coverage of the entire RSS technology spectrum...
The rise of blogging has caused RSS technology to become extremely important in today's computing environment. To more fully understand this subject, I took a look at Beginning RSS and Atom Programming by Danny Ayers and Andrew Wyatt (Wrox/Wiley).
Chapter List:
Part 1 - Understanding the Issues and Taking Control: Managing the Flow of Information - A Crucial Skill; Where Did Information Feeds Start?; The Content Provider Viewpoint; The Content Recipient Viewpoint; Storing, Retrieving, ... Read More
- Choose "Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom" instead
- Nice coverage of the entire RSS technology spectrum...
