The developers of SnipSnap removed the RSS Aggregator from SnipSnap long ago and there have been several attempts at creating macros to replace that functionality. I found Joe's implementation last year and was very impressed. It needed an update so that it would cache the feed for 30 minutes before requesting the rss feed again (asking /. for their feed more than once every 30 minutes ticks them off). The way I implemented it, it would check a timestamp and then update the cache if the updated time was more than 30 minutes.
That fix has always bugged me because it means that if you hit the page and the feed hasn't been updated, you have to wait. So, tonight I implemented a Timer that updates the cache for you every 30 minutes so you always recieving a responsive page. I also updated it so that it would work with the latest Radeox version.
So, Joe, if you get this, please send me an email at carl at sixty4bit.com so I can send you my updates.
Posted by carl at February 13, 2004 12:54 AM
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