Saturday, July 14, 2007

I have just uploaded version 1.1 of GuitarLead.net which now uses my own RSS aggregation method instead of my Yahoo! Pipes version which was always going to be a temporary measure as it just didn't give me the control over individual feeds that I wanted. The latest version now uses php and mysql to gather feeds instead of having to create an xml file from multiple feeds twice a day. This means that I can handle the different types of feeds that I want aggregrate properly as some use Atom, some use RSS 2.0 and others use older versions of the RSS specification a couple of feeds had to be dropped due to no date node!

The next step for me is to rebuild GuitarLead.net using Code Igniter so that I can easily extend on site features whenever I want and keep the code nice and tidy. I am currently building 2 major sites with Code Igniter (details soon!) and I'm really enjoying the experience, it not only saves time and repetition of code but it keeps me really organised, something I admit I'm not usually very good at!

Jon 5:04 PM Permalink