RSSVille released

Posted At : October 25, 2006 7:09 PM | Posted By : Mark
Related Categories: RSSVille,RSS,ColdFusion

My RSS series of components has been released. RSSVille is a set of RSS feed creation components for ColdFusion. The distribution provides a series of CFC objects and a set of sample feed-creation pages.

RSSVille allows you to instantiate the RSS objects, populate them with data, then choose how you want to generate the output: RSS 0.9x, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom, etc. As the specifications change or new ones are added, the components can be easily modified to generate output to the new specification.

RSSVille is extendable through modules, much like the RSS specification itself. Included in the distribution is an iTunes module that allows you to easily generate an RSS 2.0 iTunes podcast feed.

You can view download the project and submit bugs at the www.riaforge.com site. Here is a link to the project home page:

http://www.mkville.com/projects/rssville/

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Eegads

Posted At : October 17, 2006 10:25 PM | Posted By : Mark
Related Categories: RSSVille,RSS,ColdFusion,MAX

So I am super busy and aven't published the RSS component yet. Don't worry--it'll happen. I'm close, just need to finish cleaning it up for distribution. I also need to create at least a simple project page... Anywho, if you are interested, just keep checking my blog feed--I hope to have it out this week, but for sure next week while I'm at Adobe MAX!

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Create an RSS feed in ColdFusion

Posted At : October 16, 2006 4:43 PM | Posted By : Mark
Related Categories: RSSVille,RSS,ColdFusion

I haven't posted since... well many months ago. Anyway I was reading Ray's blog entry today on creating an RSS feed with ColdFusion and the entry by Pete Freitag that he mentions on Howto Create an RSS 2.0 Feed.

I was dealing with this on my work site recently. I was tasked with creating a podcast feed, so I got down and dirty trying to find something that would easily let me create a podcast RSS feed in ColdFusion. I really couldn't find anything. There were lots of feed consumers in both java and ColdFusion, but nothing that would create the feed very easily. So I ended up writing my own set of CFCs to create it with objects. My purpose was to not only provide a solution to the podcast problem, but also to rework some of my old RSS feeds around our site that were still throwing out RSS 0.9x. The CFCs can take an argument when you generate the feed and will output different RSS XML depending on what you choose. So the beauty of this is that when the next feed type comes around, I just update the components to output in that new format, change my attribute in the generate() call and wa-la, I have the new feed.

Anyway, the CFCs are just about ready for distribution, I just need to add a license to them and an example or two of using them. Maybe tonight!

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