RSS Feed
Sunday 30th July, 2006 16:06 Comments: 1
I told you I\'d get around to making one eventually for the site. It appears to work okay, I had to fudge the pubDate a little (I don\'t store the seconds in the database, and I always store the localtime rather than GMT, so BST means at times it\'ll be lying) and the pound symbol is being replaced with GBP (I think I could fix it by forcing the feed to UTF-8 or something, but I don\'t really care enough to do it properly).
You can see the RSS feed here, if you\'re using IE7 just click on the link and subscribe to the feed, otherwise paste the link into your RSS reader of choice. I\'ll eventually add the link into the page so you can click the little orange RSS feed buttons in Firefox and IE7. It\'ll look odd in IE6, so don\'t use it.
You can see the RSS feed here, if you\'re using IE7 just click on the link and subscribe to the feed, otherwise paste the link into your RSS reader of choice. I\'ll eventually add the link into the page so you can click the little orange RSS feed buttons in Firefox and IE7. It\'ll look odd in IE6, so don\'t use it.
Robert - Monday 31st July, 2006 13:35 It looks like UTF-8 doesn't fix the GBP problem. I've now tested my RSS feed properly against a validator and I think I've ironed out all the little bugs (the page is now served with a proper RSS feed header, or as close as you cna get when there isn't really a standard). One validator tells me off for using "Thu" as I should be using... "Thu" - I have no idea why it complains either, so I'm ignoring it for now. For those that are interested in doing their own RSS feed, I used a combination of Google, Wiki and this page by Microsoft: http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/articles/PublishersGuide.aspx