RSS & Atom In Action: Web 2.0 Building Blocks

Description

RSS and Atom in Action is organized into two parts. The first part introduces the blog technologies of news feed formats and publishing protocols-the building blocks. The second part shows how to put to those blocks together to assemble interesting and useful blog applications. In keeping with the behind Manning's "In Action" series, this book shows the reader, through numerous examples in Java and C#, how to parse Atom and RSS format newsfeeds, how to generate valid newsfeeds and serve them efficiently, and how to automate blogging via web services based on the new Atom protocol and the older MetaWeblog API. The book also shows how to develop a complete blog client library that readers can use in their own applications. The second half of the book is devoted to a dozen blog apps-small but immediately useful example applications such as a community aggregator, a file distribution newsfeed, a blog cross-poster, an email-to-blog gateway, Ant tasks for blogging softwarebuilds, and more.

CONTENTS:

PART I

1: New Ways of Collaborating
2: Development Kick-start
3: Blogs and Wikis In Depth
4: Newsfeed Formats
5: How to Parse Newsfeeds
6: How to Serve Newsfeeds
7: Blogginf with XML-RPC
8: Blogging with Atom
9: Joining the Conversation

PART II BLOG APPLICATIONS

10: Search and monitor blog space
11: Create a group blog by aggregation
12: Keep your blogs in sync
13: Blog by sending email
14: Send a daily blog digest by email
15: Blog your software build reports
16: Use a wiki for software documentation
17: Blog from an IRC chat room
18: Distribute files podcast style
19: Automatically download podcast files
20: Splice your own custom newsfeeds
21: Log to a blog with Log4J or Log4N
22: Ping to get the word out
23: Backup a blog in newsfeed format
24: Format a blog as a book
25: Validate your newsfeeds automatically
26: Create your own blog editor in Java
27: Create your own blog editor in C#