RSS feeds
john
I have noticed that the feed display on my blog sidebar showed old
posts and had not been updated for a while. It uses
http://www.scotedublogs.org.uk/blogs/rss as its source.
I though it was my mistake but checked the templates and it looks ok
but seems to be using a very old cache of the feeddata.
I then passed the feed to a copy of simplepie rss parser:
http://johnjohnston.homedns.org/simplepie/demo/?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotedublogs.org.uk%2Fblogs%2Frss
and got
A feed could not be found at http://www.scotedublogs.org.uk/blogs/rss
The validator:
http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotedublogs.org.uk%2Fblogs%2Frss
gives: timed out (Server timed out; misconfigured server?)
and this on http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotedublogs.org.uk%2Fblogs%2Frss
gives: Server returned timed out
the wordpress widget at: http://scotedublogs.wordpress.com/
doesn't show any posts
This seems weird as the feed works fin in my desktop aggregator and
safari.
Any ideas?
cheers
john
Robert Jones
else run slowly when it is doing its job. That's why I'm working on a replacement using Python. Meanwhile, I think the problems are caused
by a combination of the rss feed being delivered too slowly and my switching the updater off when it is making things grind to a halt.
I'm off the the alps for a week now, but will hopefully resolve this problem once I'm back.
Cheers,
Robert
john
enjoy the alps, I think I'll spend some of next week wading through
glow.
Would it be an idea to create the rss feed for the front page when the
page is updated and keep it as a static file?
please forgive me if that is a daft idea;-)
I guess some of this would be helped by having a server of our own.
cheers
john
On Apr 6, 5:58 pm, "Robert Jones" <jonesie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi John. The background task that updates all the blog data is continuing
> to give me jip! It hogs memory, and so makes everything
> else run slowly when it is doing its job. That's why I'm working on a
> replacement using Python. Meanwhile, I think the problems are caused
> by a combination of the rss feed being delivered too slowly and my switching
> the updater off when it is making things grind to a halt.
>
> I'm off the the alps for a week now, but will hopefully resolve this problem
> once I'm back.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robert
>
> On 4/6/07, john <johnhjohns...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I have noticed that the feed display on my blog sidebar showed old
> > posts and had not been updated for a while. It uses
> >http://www.scotedublogs.org.uk/blogs/rssas its source.
> > I though it was my mistake but checked the templates and it looks ok
> > but seems to be using a very old cache of the feeddata.
>
> > I then passed the feed to a copy of simplepie rss parser:
>
> >http://johnjohnston.homedns.org/simplepie/demo/?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww...
> > and got
> > A feed could not be found athttp://www.scotedublogs.org.uk/blogs/rss
>
> > The validator:
>
> >http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotedubl...
> > gives: timed out (Server timed out; misconfigured server?)
>
> > and this on
> >http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotedublogs....
Robert Jones
way to improve performance. it's what I've done with the stats page - the stats images are generated once per day.
Have fun with Glow - I tried the Web page stuff, but it was like pulling teeth, to be honest!
Robert
john
I guess you are back from the slopes, hope you had a good time.
Yes caching, I did something similar with the very primitive rss
aggregator I put together at the start of the SEB discussions:
http://johnjohnston.homedns.org/multifeed/index.php
The feed is put together once an hour and loads quite quickly,
especially if compared to generating the feed.
It might be an idea for SEB to do this and perhaps to do it for
'saved' feeds.
If someone filters and then 'saves' a filtered feed this would also be
regularly produced rather than built on the fly. Perhaps the server
could then keep a count on the frequency these feeds would be used and
stop automatically building them if they are not used?
Any news on sponsorship for a server?
cheers
john
On Apr 6, 8:40 pm, "Robert Jones" <jonesie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's not a daft idea at all! In the context of a Rails applications, you
> are talking about caching the page. Definitely one
> way to improve performance. it's what I've done with the stats page - the
> stats images are generated once per day.
>
> Have fun with Glow - I tried the Web page stuff, but it was like pulling
> teeth, to be honest!
>
> Robert
>
> > > >http://www.scotedublogs.org.uk/blogs/rssasits source.
john
I have now set up a cron job on my home machine to download the rss
feed and pick it up on my blog from there.
http://johnjohnston.homedns.org/scotedublogcopy.rss
seems to work to put on the sidebar of my blog in the meantime.
cheers
john